The Medway Handyman submitted this idea :
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
We paid a professional fencing contractor to put some concrete fence
posts, concrete kick panels and 6' panels in. As you might expect
working up to another long ago done similar fence at right angles to
the new one - the panels did not quite work out at full panels, there
was an 18" gap to be filled. This was quoted for as a separate job to
the rest, at £65 for a part panel to be put in.

The part panel has been just pushed in, with no fixing to the already
fixed post which has no socket on its face and no concrete kick board,
just sat on the bare ground to rot. Fair enough I suppose if they had
thrown it in for nothing, but probably not if you are paying £65 for
the job to be done properly. What does the panel think, before I start
growling down the phone?

If I come across this situation I raid the 'damaged panels' corner of my
supplier & find a panel where I can cut out the piece I need. Get them for
half price. You would need to buy a complete gravel board, so £25 max for
the materials, leaves him £40 for the labour. No more than an hour to cut
the gravel board & screw a batten onto the concrete post.

He isn't going to be out of pocket if he does this properly & he should.

I would have thought cutting down to size would be a regular thing for
them to need to do, so they would have odd bits to do it with anyway.
You could manage 4x 18" fill-ins from a full 6' wide set.

Thanks for the replies - I'll be on the phone in the morning. What
really miffed me, was that I spent a weekend clearing the fence line of
stumps, over hanging branches, old fence posts and roots in the way of
the new posts. Basically the job could not have been made easier for
them.

I would think a back to back pair of U brackets would be the obvious
way to fix a panel to a post lacking a slot, rather than trying to
drill a reinforced concrete post?

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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