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Trellis Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Very Good
  • Privacy: Poor
  • Cost: £15-40
  • Strength: Fair 
  • Longevity: 10-20 Year 
  • Description: Vertical and horizontal criss cross design with pressure treated 100mm spaced wooden batons. 
ornate trellis fence

Ornate Trellis Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Very Good
  • Privacy: Fair
  • Cost: £18-60
  • Strength: Poor
  • Longevity: 10-20 Year
  • Description: Framed trellis panel with diagonal criss crossed batons closely spaced for more privousy & decorative design.

Decorative Fence panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Fair 
  • Privacy: Medium – Good
  • Cost: £45-65
  • Strength: Fair
  • Longevity: 15-20 Years
  • Description: Thin slats with a small dividing baton between each layer of boards to allow for wind tollerance.

Picket Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Low-Fair
  • Cost: £30-60
  • Strength: Medium
  • Longevity: 20-30 Years
  • Description: Vertical Picket Palins evenly spaced which allows wind to pass through easily. This palin fence style is available in flat top, pointed or rounded top.
  • Is a countryside fencing most commonly associated as a front garden boundary with a board width of 3” or 75mm space between each palling and fixed securely to the rails.
board weave fence

Board Weave Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Fair
  • Privacy: Very Good Privacy
  • Cost: £30-50
  • Strength: Medium
  • Longevity: 20+ Years
  • Decsription: Single layer of boards with a single batton diving each layer which allows for wind to pass through whilst attaining good priacy. 
slatted weave fence

Slatted Weave Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Good
  • Cost: £
  • Strength: Fair
  • Longevity: 10-20 Year
  • Description: Narrow slates woven between vertical batons giving a decorative softening look, set within a wooden frame and is pressure treated for durability.
feather edge fence

Feather Edge Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Very Poor.
  • Privacy: Very Good
  • Cost: £35-50
  • Strength: Very Good
  • Longevity: 25-35 Year 
  • Description:Feather edge boards should overlap by 25 millimetres of the next paling board and be securely fixed with Stainless Steel nails to a fence rail not less than 60mm x 35mm x 1800mm.  
  • Info: Another name for Feather Edge Fence panels is mistakenly called Closeboard. The description is often within the name. A Closeboard Fence is a series of boards fixed close to the next board, where as a Feather Edge Fence panel are tappered boards overlapping the next board. Close boards are either butted up to the next board or there is a slight space to allow air flow. 

Close Board Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Fair-Good
  • Cost: £50-75
  • Strength: Very Good
  • Longevity: 25-35 Years
  • Description: Pallisade boards butted together or a small divide and nailed to the rails with stainless steel nails. These boards are 22mm thick and a 100mm wide.

Lap Fence Panel are:

  • Wind Tolerance: Poor
  • Privacy: Very Good 
  • Cost: £30-40
  • Strength: Low-Medium
  • Longevity: 10-20 Years
  • Description: The cheapest wooden fence panel with good privacy.
  • Lap panels have very thin palling boards which are fixed horizontally and need five fixing points over the 1.83 metre width which reduce swarping of the boards during weathering conditions.

Hit & Miss Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Partial
  • Cost: £40-55
  • Strength: Strong
  • Longevity: 20-30 Years
  • Description:

Hit and Miss privacy fencing

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Very Good
  • Cost: £50-75
  • Strength: Strong
  • Longevity: 25-35 Years
  • Description: series of closely spaced boards with the opposing side boards covering each board divide. This allows strength, privacy & excellent wind tollerance.   

Halve Log Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Fair-Good
  • Cost: £
  • Strength: Very Strong
  • Longevity: 35-45 years
  • Description: Machined rounded palins halved, pressure treated and spaced to personal prefference of privacy
Venetian fence panels

Venetian Fence Panel

  • Wind Tolerance: Good
  • Privacy: Good
  • Cost: £50-75
  • Strength: Good
  • Longevity: 20-25 Years
  • Description:

How do you fix a fence panel to a post?

  • Framed panels can be fixed to the posts by just using stainless steel screws or galvanised nails on both sides of the panel if the frame is thick enough but a U bracket gives the most secure fix.
  • U Brackets are best fixed to a post using 30mm two Stainless Steel Screws which will give a secure long lasting and rust resistant secure fix.
  • Two 25mm Stainless Steel screws for fixing the panel to the bracket will securerly hold a fence panel in place
  • Costs around £0.40 each
  • Normally made from Galvanised Steel but best made from Stainless Steel.
  • Strength: Very Good
  • Longevity: 20+ Years
  • Description: U brackets are formed from galvanised folded steel which has a 4 micron coating. The coating helps to protect the steel from rusting but inevitably will rust eventually.

Which fence panels are best?

  • Ultimately the best panels will have stainless steel nails which are rust resistant and will fix each paling board securely in place for best longevity of the fence panel.
  • The best fence panels will have strong rails with a pitch/slope on the top of each horizontal rail which aids water dispersal. This reduces water saturation of the wooden rails & increase the fence longevity, slowing down the wet rotting process.
  • Panels need to suit the environmental needs and wants of the customer combining privacy, wind tolerance, cost, guarantee, strength, durability and style.
  • The best wooden fence panels are pressure treated so the preservatives are forced into the wood grain under extreme pressure. Dip treated fence panels barely absorbs the preservatives into the wood grain and is really only a surface application.

Which fence panels are cheapest?

  • The Cheapest Fence panels are picket panels & Lap panels.
  • Post and straining wire is the cheapest form of fencing.
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What width are fence panels?

  • There are two width sizes of standard fence panels which are 1.8 metre and 1.828 metre wide and are readily available from most good suppliers. Nails need to be stainless steel & the wood used is pressure treated. 
  • The 1.8 metre wide fence panels are classed as continental panels as they are normally made in mainland Europe.
  • The 1.828 metre wide panels (6 feet wide), are made in the UK.
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