"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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Malcolm Stewart wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
o.uk...
It occurs to me that any wooden post concreted into a hole in the ground
is going to rot eventually, tanalised or whatever - it's got to be a
matter of time.

Any thoughts?


I've extended the effective life of timber fence posts by reinforcing
them with angled brace posts, obviously taking space on my side of the
fence. This made the post much more resistant to wind forces and has
probably slowed the break-up of the fence panels.


But don't the braces rot at the same rate as the posts?

Possibly, but because the design is braced there's far less stress on the
original post, and as far as I'm concerned my fence posts are lasting well.
(If they do go, there's a mass of shrubbery to remove to gain access for
digging etc!)

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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK



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