Price of post and rail

[Vader]

Anyone got a rough price for labour for a post and 4 rail fence?

Old contractor seems to have disappeared and I wanting a rough idea on price before look for a new one.

 

[TripleSix]

@tepapa
@ARW

 

[Whitepeak]

We've just done 75m of 3 rail with rabbit net. One quote itemised labour at £750.

 

[tepapa]

Between £6.50 and £8 at a guess. Ground conditions, location, spec and amount would all have an affect

 

[Skintagain]

Between £6.50 and £8 at a guess. Ground conditions, location, spec and amount would all have an affect

How much does it come in at with creosote posts and rails all in?

 

[tepapa]

How much does it come in at with creosote posts and rails all in?

What size posts? What type of rails? ??‍

 

[Al R]

How much does it come in at with creosote posts and rails all in?

telegraph poles and railway sleepers? If your doing a job do it properly

 

[Skintagain]

What size posts? What type of rails? ??‍

Well I don’t like Octoposts and their rails. Do fence and forget do posts and rails? I just have 200m to do around my shed so I just wondered what sort of cost it would be in creosote so it would last.

Standard tantalised post and rail is a waste of time. They break off quicker than round posts on netting when the wind gets up

 

[Skintagain]

telegraph poles and railway sleepers? If your doing a job do it properly

I have got 40off 10ft electric pole bottoms.......... they are big buggers though would last me out

 

[ARW]

Bog standard post and 4 rail across a field approx £15 a metre tanalised timber
Proper Creosote approx £19 a metre I think
materials and labour

 

[Skintagain]

Bog standard post and 4 rail across a field approx £15 a metre tanalised timber
Proper Creosote approx £19 a metre I think
materials and labour

No brainer then for the creosote. I need to work out if I can muster up enough enthusiasm to wall it instead and if not I will be going down the creosote route.

Thankyou

 

[RhysT]

Well I don’t like Octoposts and their rails. Do fence and forget do posts and rails? I just have 200m to do around my shed so I just wondered what sort of cost it would be in creosote so it would last.

Standard tantalised post and rail is a waste of time. They break off quicker than round posts on netting when the wind gets up

Fence and forget do creosote post and rail!
had a load a month or so back
D rails £7.80 plus vat
6” x 3” x 7’ £14 plus vat
Our oldest run from their stuff is 4yrs old. All still strong and as good as new with a fresh coat of creosote this summer.
Hope it will last longer than the 9 years the tanelised Fence lasted!

 

[RhysT]

Materials alone for 40m of menage fencing for 4 rails plus gravel boards from F and F comes to £27.50!

 

[Skintagain]

Materials alone for 40m of menage fencing for 4 rails plus gravel boards from F and F comes to £27.50!

Bloody hell I better get my walling head on!!

 

[ARW]

Bloody hell I better get my walling head on!!

That’ll be 8ft posts and 2x 6” boards extra do it will be a lot more

 

[7610 super q]

As an aside, creosote wasn't used for a few years, now it's back in use again What's changed ? I thought it was illegal, did I imagine it ?

 

[tepapa]

As an aside, creosote wasn't used for a few years, now it's back in use again What's changed ? I thought it was illegal, did I imagine it ?

You imagined it.
It is banned for use in domestic situations but not industrial.
What changed is tanalised timber was good, cleaner and cheaper until the EU banned the arsenic part. Rendering it useless. Its taken over 10 years to sink into farmers that it's useless. Farmers are slow like that. But because of the big price increase many farmers would rather still put the cheap posts in.

 

[7610 super q]

You imagined it.
It is banned for use in domestic situations but not industrial.
What changed is tanalised timber was good, cleaner and cheaper until the EU banned the arsenic part. Rendering it useless. Its taken over 10 years to sink into farmers that it's useless. Farmers are slow like that. But because of the big price increase many farmers would rather still put the cheap posts in.

Ah, the EU.....I knew it....

 

[tepapa]

Well I don’t like Octoposts and their rails. Do fence and forget do posts and rails? I just have 200m to do around my shed so I just wondered what sort of cost it would be in creosote so it would last.

Standard tantalised post and rail is a waste of time. They break off quicker than round posts on netting when the wind gets up

Bog standard 4 rail tanalised £15/£16.50/m, Creo £19.50/£23 depending on size of posts. All prices approx ex vat. Basic price no hard ground, or inaccessible ground

 

[Steevo]

Just bought some creosoted 5 x 3 x 6' posts and 3.5 x 1.5 rails - £8.40 per metre.