Fencing Panel Blogs

AVS fencing supplies are the perfect match to create your dream garden fencing project. We offer an extensive range of garden fencing which includes; Lap Panels Closeboard Fencing, Featheredge, Picket Fencing, Palisade Fencing and much more. There is so much choice, all at affordable prices!

If decorative fencing is what you particularly crave for your garden, how about checking out our Grange decorative Fence Panels, which include our Grange Elite St Michel panel and many more.

As an extra benefit when buying garden fencing from AVS we also offer a 15 year post guaranteed on selected garden fence posts, so you can be confident you are in safe hands, when you buy from us.

So what are you waiting for? Go and get that Garden Fencing you have always desired either by using our easy to use website or over the counter at one of 7 branches across the south east, before those dreaded clocks go back.

If you are craving ideas and inspirations for your garden, then AVS fencing Supplies is the website for you. We have added another exceptional part to the website that will inspire you and help you generate ideas from other customer’s projects with pictures and step by step guides.

We are confident you won’t be disappointed, as we have projects ranging from; railway sleeper raised beds and pond projects, to exceptional fencing and gates ideas.

Come on and join the fun on our easy to use website.

Our brand new Harlow branch is an exciting development for AVS Fencing Supplies and we will increase our products and delivery coverage to customers in Essex, North London and Hertfordshire areas.
 
Customers looking to purchase fence panels, fence posts, decking materials, railway sleepers or garden gates now have a great new supplier covering their area and as always we will be offering quality value products at competitive prices.

So what are you waiting for? You probably know that the Harlow Leisurezone launch has been delayed by a month or so, so why not get yourself down to AVS in Harlow for landscape materials and give your garden a makeover? Before long, you will have a leisure area all to yourself!

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With so many fence panels to choose from how do I know which is the strongest fence panel to buy, with so many to choose from with on line shopping. If we ignore decorative panels like the continental and grange elite range the choice of fence panels basically comes down to two, Closeboard fence panels and Lap panels. You can easily tell the difference the closeboard fence panel is constructed from timbers running vertically and the lap panel has horizontal timber slats.

So to answer the question the strongest garden fence panels are the closeboard variety but don’t stop reading because there’s much more than just a fence panel to making a strong fence we should to consider the fixings, the height, how the post is fixed and in what location you are using the fence in.

Let’s just examine the closeboard fence panel for a minute and look at what we mean when we say this is a stronger type of fencing panel. It has strength in two ways the closeboard panel will stand stronger winds than the lap panel before the fence panel blows out between the posts. It is also constructed from heavier weight timber featheredge boards which means that if the fence panel is subjected stress via either a dog or vandals holes are less likely to appear. It is important to fix your fence panel securely to the post. It doesn’t really matter how you fix it, some people use clips and others use nails. If you choose to use met clips you should have a minimum of 6 per fence panel and if you choose to nail through the batten and into the post you should have 4 nails on one side of the batten and 3 nails on the other a total of 7 nails on each side 14 overall.

If your fence panels are in a reasonably exposed location or a windy location and you want to reduce the wind effects on them consider a reduced height panel with a trellis sat above, you can mix any height of trellis with a fence panel instead of a 6ft high panel you could consider a 5ft high panel with 1ft trellis above still giving you a 6ft high fence or even a 4ft fence with a 2ft trellis above. Trellis will reduce the wind resistance of the fence and allow the wind to blow through the trellis and reduce the pressure on the fencing panels.

Having considered your fencing panels next consider the fencing posts, if your timber fencing posts are not securely fixed into the ground and they move around the wind this will weaken the fence because of the movement which will be present in the fence. AVS recommend a fencing post for a 6ft high fence panel should be inserted between 2ft and 2ft. 6ins into the ground. The most secure method of fixing a fence post is to place concrete or use post mix a rapid hardening ready mix cement which comes dry in the bag and you pour into the fence post hole and add water, a very easy way to fix a fence post. Once the post mix has gone off the post will be completely rigid. Overall the aim is to try and stop the fence post moving at all in the ground.

Met post fence post spikes are another option for fixing your fence these are in our opinion only suitable where the ground conditions are favourably and where your fence is not subject to much wind.

Finally are there any locations which are not suitable for fence panels? In our view very exposed locations are best fenced with closeboard fencing which is assembled on site rather than using ready made fence panels, it is generally constructed using larger post sections and strong horizontal rails which can be increased where there is a risk of frequent high winds.