Price for close board fence and concrete posts

Hi, I'm getting 3 concrete posts with 2 times 6 foot by 6 foot tanalised close boards panels fitted at the bottom of my garden. The cost is �£200, does that seem reasonable?

 

Hi Johnny,
If that cost is for the materials and labour too, then I would say it's very reasonable.

 

Johnny, won't know as much as others on here but can tell you last year we had 2 6x6 panels & a double gate fitted for around �£400. Sounded dear, it does when you're not in the business, but the company came recommended. We're happy so far, so yours sounds OK to me.

Don't know what 'tanalised' means but does it mean treated? Ours were 'treated' but we still had to paint them if you know what i mean. Did mine blue. Why? Cos it matched the garage door. Not really, it was cos we got 2 tubs of blue treatment on sale for about �£2 each, some time ago :D Just happened that the garage door was blue.

Also it you can't afford/don't know how to use a sprayer, try a paint roller. Took me half the time.

So looking a good price so far Johnny.

Cheers

 

Like the sound of this since my fence is in grave need of replacement and I have no knowledge of potential costs.........

 

Using my prices Including a slight mark up I price it at:

Posts �£40
Panels �£60
Concrete �£15

Labour �£150

I asume that the panels are of the expensive decrative sort, for normal standard 6x6 ones Id knock �£30 off

Total 265

 

Personally I dont recomend concrete posts as they often dont last as long as 4" tanalised timber ones also they are more hastle to use.

I always soak timber post in creocote the night before the job.

Quite often the reebar inside concrete posts rusts away and they snap with just a light kick or gust.

 

Thanks everyone, seems I've got quite a good deal. Some other builder rang tonight who could of done it �£20 cheaper but the other guy was friendly, local and turned up the next day. I imagine the concrete posts are the bolt type and the panels will just be heavy plain treated timbers. We get the job done next Monday so will try and post a picture then. Hopefully painting them with green preserver the same as the lap fencing that is still standing.

 

Hi, And hello again everyone. Sorry to say i'm only a seasonal visitor.!!!! good news then, me being back must mean the days are drawing out and our favourite time of year is around the corner!! I have plastic Posts and gravel boards. the lucky bit for me is that I work for a plastic extrusion company and we make a range of fence posts and gravel boards in several colours. Green, Brown, White, grey. Obviously no staining / painting you can wash them if you wish!. Mine have been in a year almost to the day. Never washed, never touched them. note in the picture the gravelboard is 150mm depth. They also do a 300mm. The gravel boards are designed to neatly slot over one another to make an attractive plastic fence if you wish (all out of gravel board!. I chose wooden fence panels through personal taste. These pictures are my garden at home.




The fencing products come under the company name "Liniar Garden Products" you can view on the website web page
I'm not a salesman....just happen to work for the "Mother" company, have the product at home and love it. :love:You can also view a video demonstration here web page

I know it seems like a sales pitch, but it's just me giving advice!!!!, i have nothing to gain from this, i'm just a factory shop floor

 

Looks good, luckily I won't need gravel boards for the two sections I'm having put up as next to a 6" concrete base for something there before we moved in.

 

wow it looks so neat, maybe one day ill have fencing like that

 

Good your back Steve, the fence looks good I think the big advantage is they wont warp or bow it's this what causes them to pop out when it's windy.

 

They just finished putting it up this afternoon. This is the pressure treated close board fence with concrete posts before I put on the green preserver. They were supposed to start at 9am this morning but his van broke down so started at 1.40ish!

 

Nice sheltered little corner now Johnny,just curious whats under the plastic bottles in the plant pots?

 

One is a honeysuckle cutting and the other is some lemon balm as the wife was asking where it was. The honeysuckle is coming on great, the lemon balm looks like it did when I put the bottle on it. Unfortunately the builders destroyed some of my cuttings near the fence that had been growing great guns since last year.