Picket Fencing Blogs

Anyone with an escape prone dog will be familiar with the need to have a good fence surrounding the garden. A crafty terrier on the scent of a rabbit or mouse will become incredibly determined to utilise any weak spots or gaps in a fence.

There are different ways to successfully keep your dog safe in the garden. A common fence style for keeping dogs is a picket fence. The pales are spaced closely enough to stop a small terrier trying to squeeze through the gaps, but the pales still allow visibility throught the fence. The bonus of picket fencing is there are garden gates available to match, so you can create a seamless and attractive border to your home. If your dog is a digger, dig galvanised mesh under the fence and in to the ground to stop them being able to dig their way out. This will also stop foxes and rabbits from getting in.

Alternatively, post and rail fences can be used in conjunction with a galvanised wire mesh, more commonly know as rabbit or chicken wire, to secure your garden. Post and rail, particularly cleft chestnut, has a rustic farm like appearance that looks great round rural and town homes alike. 

Unless you're a celebrity wanting complete privacy in your garden – picket and palisade fencing are ideal because you can partially see through them and therefore, they make excellent decorative fencing.

So which fencing should you choose for your garden?

Here's the main differences between picket fence panels and palisade fencing:

Wooden palisade fencing and picket fence panels look identical – both fences allow vision through and they are often used as a decorative boundary when full privacy is not required. Plus both fences are available with flat, pointed or rounded tops.

The main difference is that palisade fencing is sold in pieces and is constructed on site, where as picket fence panels are sold as as panels. AVS palisade fencing and AVS picket fence panels are both guaranteed for 25 years.

AVS sell ready made panels and separate components that need assembly on site. Separate components do cost slightly more but will produce a longer lasting and slightly studier fence.