Yep, def close boarded+concrete next time around. Our long fence has blown down twice in the past 20 years: £600 a go to put it all back up again. I'll get The Man in to do it. Definately serves a purpose if you've just got a couple to do and you're trying to work with a walnut branch sticking up your bum...
I'm guessing 100 feet all in, give or take. Went for the heavier close board which I find is much better. Concrete gravel boards at the bottom and concrete posts.
That's the way to do it! Ours keep falling down because of the weedy 3" posts. They rot at the bottom, a good blow, and the lot comes down...
Having spent a lot of money, Sod's law but ever since we seem to have had gale force winds. More gale force winds forecast for Easter so I'll be spending my bank holiday Monday panicking about my new expensive fence!!!
I have roughly 40 fence panels around my garden, spent the last 6yrs on/off, replacing about 17 of them. Recent winds means I need to replace another 10 that are bodged together for now. Hate it.
Depends on the panels. If you get £7 or however much larch lap from b&q or wherever, they will be crap and won't last. If anybody I do a fence for for, insists on larch lap panels i get them from a known good source. They're solid handmade and twice the price. None of the ones I do blow down.
In the process of replacing larch lap style panels down my garden (another long and thin garden like @14platoon). In fairness they've lasted about 10 years but are in a terrible state now. In other places I've done feather edge / close board myself, but am cheating on this one and bought the B&Q "top quality" close board panels. 2 concrete posts as they were subsiding into next doors pond, but the rest will be wood as I hate the look of concrete. 2 panels done, 5 to go. Not this weekend though Oh and another vote.for postcrete here!
I used to have just under 500 ft of fence, I replaced about half of it with close board/ concrete posts 20 years ago. The neighbours were very pleased with it, put trellis on the top, grew stuff up it and looked after/ painted their sides. A quality fence is very good for neighbour relations IMO and i had 8 of them.
Totally agree, I think our neighbours are very pleased......particularly the teenage boys who now have a solid fence to smash the football on!
I did exactly the same here, and I mixed my own slop to hold the posts in. Hopefully it will last until they take me off in a box ...
Well storm katy has passed and put my new fence to the test, 100% solid so far. The neighbours fences are missing panels and blown down, the other neighbours fence has been loosened and is tilting over, they both had wooden posts. Proof that concrete looks to be the best option for posts. Here's a photo of ours.
