Fencing Panels Blogs

Recent high winds across the South East of England, has been the cause of many home owners despair. With high winds reported, many have been left with damage to their fencing. The high winds have attributed to split fence posts, broken arris rails and broken and twisted garden fence panels. If your fence has suffered damage of this extent, fixing the damage does not need to be expensive. AVS Fencing stock a number of items for repairing fences, preventing the need to replace sections altogether.

If you have broken arris rails, simply use an arris rail repair bracket, which is easily screwed or nailed into place. For posts that have broken at the bottom, use a metpost repair spur or a concrete repair spur to support the damaged post.

If the wind has damaged parts of your garden fence beyond repair, we have great offers on garden fence panels this month. The offer includes pressure treated closeboard and lap panels, as well as the dip treated closeboard and lap panel alternatives, so there is a panel to suit all budgets and needs. Remember, when purchasing panels for the future, that closeboard style fences are the strongest and are therefore less likely to be damaged by strong wind.

For more experienced DIY enthusiasts, consider erecting hit and miss fencing. Hit and miss fencing is perfect for exposed, windy locations as it lets the wind pass through the fence and retains your gardens privacy. To construct hit and miss fencing you will need to use timber palisade and rails between your fence posts. Pictured above is an example of hit and miss fencing.

For expert advice on repairing your fence, contact your nearest AVS Fencing supplies branch today. 

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.

The team at AVS have identified a good article on how it’s important for a consumer to choose their fence carefully and also the importance of planting it in the right place. The article can be found at the Canadian fencing newspaper, www.thestar.com, which comments “People set low budget marks for fencing, often consumers budgets is one-third of what’s realistic.” said Lea Bailes, president of Guier Fence. Additionally Funk a Garden designer highlights the need to “Weigh the costs and get the best impact for the money,”

Well AVS Fencing have the solution to all these worries, with our wide range of fencing panels and accessories to keep the cost down, whilst at the same time getting that much needed value for money. As we all know in these difficult times, it can be ever so important to have a budget and the need to get value for your money. So if you are looking for value why not choose AVS Fencing Suppliers as your No 1 value for money Fencing suppliers.

Unfortunately, the World Cup ended rather abruptly for England. Don't worry though, the good news is that now is a perfect time for you to spend some of that extra spare time outside enjoying your garden. What a perfect way for you to take your mind off the tragic footy.

If your Garden Fencing or garden decking is starting to look untidy and you want to change this before the winter months, you should try AVS Fencing Supplies as your low cost specialist supplier of Garden Fencing Panels, Decking Materials and Railway Sleepers. On the subject of sleepers – how many of you nearly fell asleep watching England playing?

Don't forget that we offer competitive products including lap fence panels, trellis and new softwood sleepers to name a few. 

All of these products are offered at low prices and are available with the added benefit of being able to be brought online! AVS Fencing Suppliers give England something to be proud of – perfect gardens!

 
 

 

There are two main types of solid wooden fencing:

• Fence Panels
• Closeboard Fencing

Which should I choose?

The pros and cons of fence panels:

• Fence panels are not good on slopes because you will get gaps under the panels as panels need to be placed at 90% otherwise the posts will not vertical;
• Fence panels are weaker and therefore not so good with our windy British weather;
• The life expectancy of a fence panel is shorter for the above reasons;
• You will have more holes to dig, as the posts are closer together;
• The good news is that fence panels are easier to erect and also they are cheaper!

The pros and cons of Closeboard Fencing:

• Closeboard fencing is a little slower to erect;
• The initial cost of closeboard fencing is higher;
• Closeboard fencing is ideal on sloping ground as you can stagger the fencing to fit the slope.
• The design of closeboard fencing can be varied, which allows you to make certain sections stronger on exposed sites;
• The lifetime expectancy of closeboard fencing is much longer;
• Closeboard fencing is made of small parts which are assembled on site, therefore there are no heavy panels to lift.

Top tips
When replacing an existing fence, there is probably a short section somewhere along the fence line, alter the arrangement of this so that you do not have to dig up all the old concrete fence post foundations you can dig into fresh ground.

Erecting Fence panels
If the ground has a slight slope start at the top and work down. It makes stepping the panels i.e. adjusting to suit ground level a lot easier to get right.

Erecting Closeboard Fencing
Do this in 2 stages stage 1 Posts and rails stage 2 add the gravelboard and clad the fence with featheredge.

Talking of wood, Ronnie Wood from The Rolling Stones is expected to pay his ex-wife Jo £6.5 million after they were given a 'quick' divorce yesterday (November 11)! It's lucky that AVS fencing is highly competitively priced – at least Ronnie can afford new fence panels :)