AVS Fencing Blog

Met Post is the leading brand of metal fence post bases. The most common style used is a spike which is the type we discuss here. The purpose of these fencing accessories is to secure your timber fence post into the ground without having to dig a hole or using concrete to backfill it. Sounds great doesn’t it, so what are the pro’s and con’s?

Pro’s

• Met Posts are easy to install. They are simply bashed into the ground with a large hammer.
• There is no fence post hole to dig

Con’s

• If the ground is to hard or stony, the Met posts are hard to bash in straight and you would possibly need to dig out any obstructions
• If the ground is too soft they give insufficient support to the fence post. Similarly on exposed sites they may not hold the fence post firmly in the ground. Therefore you would need the longer spike.

AVS now stock a direct alternative to the met post called the fencemate. So if you have a new fence to erect, visit our website by clicking here. Don't forget, we also sell a great range of decking, railway sleepers, gates, mesh wire, ironmongery fixings, and fencing aggregates.