H profile concrete posts - aggh!

[Steve]

I want to make my own featheredge-on-rails fencing. But Not keen on using wooden posts - I'd like to use concrete, but clearly most concrete posts are designed for panels, with their H profile.

Are there any concrete posts with holes for bolts? I'd need 9ft posts (fence is 6ft6). Is there anywhere locally that I might find them? I have found similar stuff online, but there isnt much variety and technical details (position of holes) is sparse! I'd feel much more confident if I could see the posts in person and measure it!

An alternative might be to adapt standard slotted concrete posts. Perhaps some framework in the slots onto which I fasted the rails? Or metal straps around the posts at the height I need fixings? Some kind of clamps? Eventually the featheredge facing will be on both sides (double sided), so appearance of any kind of "bodge" isnt very important!

I dont need gravel boards (though there will be a "sacrificial" piece of featheredge mounted horizontally across the bottom of the fence between the verticals and the ground).

If not, how best to protect wood buried in the ground in concrete? I would be using 4x4 wooden posts. Cheers.

 

[Steve]

How do they fix gates to concrete posts? Something I always wondered!!!

 

[imamartian]

this was my first hit on google !!!

http://www.ebuildingsupplies.co.uk/.../;jsessionid=00B6D411BEDC05C245535F6EE4564612

 

[htgeng]

An alternative might be to adapt standard slotted concrete posts.

you are over thinking it. The slotted concrete posts have holes in the middle -presumably used during the the casting process? Just put pressure treated timber in each side of the slot and a couple of long bolts to sandwich the lot together. Then fix your arris rails to those vertical timbers. Or do you mean something different?

 

[mikej2005]

How do they fix gates to concrete posts? Something I always wondered!!!

I screwed 4x2" wooden batons to mine, using long screws and rawplugs.

You have to be careful with your choice of rawplug and hole/screw diameter though, as there is a risk of splitting/damaging the post.

If you drill through the narrow part of the 'H', you avoid the metal reinforcements in the post.

The gate hinges/fixings can then be screwed into the batons.