Guides, product news and practical installation advice from the people who supply and fit this stuff every day.
A swing arm barrier closes a 3m to 8m opening with three posts and a padlock. When it beats a gate, and what to measure before you order one.
Work in beams, not metres. Here is how to turn a run length into beams, posts, bolts and terminals without ordering twice.
A forklift into a racking leg is a bad day; into a gas main it is worse. What to put in front of the things on site you cannot afford to have hit.
Two ends, one intermediate per joint, one corner per turn. Here is how to turn a run length and a wall height into an actual order in about two minutes.
Raised beds, terraces, edging, steps and low retaining walls. Where sleepers earn their money, and the two jobs people give them that they are wrong for.
Ball-court fencing gets leaned on, kicked and climbed daily. Roll top mesh removes the cut wire ends, stiffens the panel and gives a clean rebound — three problems, one detail.
School boundaries have to do two contradictory things — keep people out after hours and not look like a prison during them. That is why mesh usually wins over palisade.
We make them at our Merseyside yard, so almost anything is possible — but six decisions have to be made before a welder starts. Here they are, in order.
Divide the run by 2.75 and round up. That gets you the bay count — the part people get wrong is everything else on the order, particularly the corners and the fixings.
Three formats, three jobs. Coil diameter, whether it overhangs a footpath and how much bracket work you fancy will decide it faster than any spec sheet.
Height alone does not stop anyone. What stops people is a boundary with nothing to grip, nothing to stand on and no quiet corner to work in — the topping is only part of it.
Composite is not a like-for-like swap for a timber panel — it costs more up front and buys back the weekend you would have spent staining it. Whether that is worth it depends on the boundary.
