Watch out in buying treated timber.

Some places only dip the timber, and are thus cheaper.

As opposed to the vacuum treated timber.

If you can get hold of the posts from a farmers suppliers, these will
have been treated to MAFF standards which will last inexcess of 25
years.

Check out http://www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk/pa...e/process.aspx


Oh I know that. It's just that concrete posts are, IMO, as ugly as sin.
It's a boundary fence between the front gardens of mine and my neighbours
house so appearance matters. Metposts just seem like a way of guaranteeing
that your posts are wobbly (& squint) for the whole of their life-time. I
didn't mean to sound ungrateful for the suggestions.