A regular update from the team at Premier Concrete Fencing - your local supplier of concrete fence posts, slabs and gravel boards across South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North Nottinghamshire. You will find practical guides on installing concrete fence posts, making your fence last longer, and the latest news from the yard.
Looking for something specific? Our guides are grouped below by the questions we get asked most often in the yard and over the phone - from working out how many posts you need, to fencing on a slope or along a garden boundary.
Costs vary with post spacing, height and whether you choose slotted or morticed posts, but most straightforward runs work out cheaper over their lifetime than timber once you factor in zero repainting and no rot. See our full cost breakdown or check current prices.
Divide your total fence length by your panel width, add one extra post for the end (or two if there is a gate), and round up. Our fence post calculator does this instantly, or read the full guide.
Slotted and morticed posts both need setting in postcrete or a poured footing to stay upright long-term - a bag of dry-mix postcrete per post is usually enough for a standard 6ft panel run. Full detail in our footings guide.
Properly set steel-reinforced concrete posts routinely last 25 to 30 years with no maintenance beyond an occasional wash, against 10 to 15 years for timber in the heavy clay soils common across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. More in how long concrete fence posts last.
Yes - by stepping the panels down the slope in fixed increments or raking them to follow the ground, both of which we cover with worked examples in our sloped fencing guide.
For a standard 6ft (1.83m) panel you need an 8ft post, since roughly a third of the post's length sits below ground. See sizing for 6ft panels for other heights.
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