are all concrete posts born equal?

r.bartlett · 14 Mar 2009

looking round I see the price of concrete posts vary from £8.00 to £22.00 for the same size.

Is there a british standard for these things or can someone explain where the difference lies

Thanks

Richard

EddieM · 14 Mar 2009

Why not paint them brown? They'll look exactly like wooden posts. Not at all like concrete painted brown

Thermo · 14 Mar 2009

made by different companies and sold by different merchants. Not a great deal between them. they have their place but personally i think they are ugly even if some old lunatic codger on day release from broadmoor tells you to paint them brown

EddieM · 14 Mar 2009

Who you calling an old lunatic codger

r.bartlett · 15 Mar 2009

Thermo said:
made by different companies and sold by different merchants. Not a great deal between them. they have their place but personally i think they are ugly even if some old lunatic codger on day release from broadmoor tells you to paint them brown

Thanks Thermo for the educated reply. Much appreciated.

JohnD · 15 Mar 2009

they are a thing of beauty when painted with "bitter chocolate colour" masonry paint to blend with the woodwork.

Ignore Thermo, he makes a handsome living out of replacing rotted-off timber posts.

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Thermo · 15 Mar 2009

see i told you it would be his day out soon. fresh from the occupational therapy workshops where he paints concrete gnomes........"Paint them.....Paint them all!

EddieM · 15 Mar 2009

You two, come on admit a truce, you're never gonna agree. Personally I mix wood shavings into my concrete when making my bespoke fence posts. I also vote Lib Dem.

Thermo · 15 Mar 2009

i install timber posts, i install concrete posts. I rip out old timber ones, i rip out old concrete ones. It doesnt matter to me what people have its their garden, but i sure as hell wouldnt have them in my garden and no amount of blurry pictures are ever going to convince me john is right!

JohnD · 15 Mar 2009

ColJack · 15 Mar 2009

what about sawdust and resin pretend wood?
I know they make decking boards out of it but do they make fence posts yet?

breezer · 15 Mar 2009

ok, i will solve the problem

have concrete posts paint them red and the fence blue. I did.

EddieM · 15 Mar 2009

breezer said:
ok, i will solve the problem

have concrete posts paint them red and the fence blue. I did.

yeah, but you were working for dipsy tinky winky, la la and po at the time

breezer · 15 Mar 2009

EddieM said:
yeah, but you were working for dipsy tinky winky, la la and po at the time

Oh, is that who it was, they told me it's Eddie's garden
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EddieM · 15 Mar 2009

breezer said:
EddieM said:

yeah, but you were working for dipsy tinky winky, la la and po at the time

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Oh, is that who it was, they told me it's Eddie's garden
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way too pristine for my garden. Not really into a lot of landscaping prefer the plants to talk as it were. But each to their own.

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