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Steel vs Concrete vs Wood: Ultimate guide to fence posts

Deciding on a new fence for your garden isn’t easy. Especially when trying to weigh up the pros and cons of wooden and concrete fence posts. You need to consider the practicality, aesthetics, short and long-term costs and sustainability of the fence post. But what if we told you there’s an alternative to concrete and wood fence posts?

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Which side of the fence is my responsibility?

Is it your responsibility to arrange and pay for it or your neighbours? Garden fence responsibility can often be a subject of dispute between neighbours, especially when it comes to knowing where you stand legally.

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Time to spring forward and spring into action.

We know it’s a busy time of year for installers too who start springing into action taking advantage of the extra daylight hours. It makes sense. In London, the shortest day in December is only 7 hours and 49 minutes long – not much chance of overtime there! In comparison the longest day is over twice as long with 16 hours and 40 minutes of daylight. Easily space there for a couple of extra hours on the clock and still time for 9 holes of golf before sunset!

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Great fences of the world.

This blog goes out in part to our friends in the fence building community as, in one respect, it must the mother of all installation and maintenance contracts. But in part it also addresses important issues of sustainability and bio-diversity – a cautionary tale of what can happen when you fence things out as well as fence things in.

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10 Reasons to ‘See the Light’ and make 2023 The Year Of The DuraPost

At this time of year, it’s natural to feel the weight of winter on your shoulders as you reflect back on another year of hard work. That’s especially the case if you work with concrete fence posts where life is all about doing the heavy lifting and then some.