Post spikes are fantastic things for making the job of putting fence posts in your garden a whole lot easier. The traditional method for this involves digging a hole about three feet deep, and then setting the post inside it using concrete and hard core. The posts would stay in, but for a five foot post you had to buy an eight foot length, and putting each one in would take a sizeable amount of time. A post spike is a substantial construction made from steel, and usually painted green, or brown or rust red, to blend in with your garden. The spike part is 18 inches to 30 inches long, on top of which is a cage that encloses and grips on to the bottom six ...  Read the complete review

We've recently had to renew a bit of our fence and had our first experience of Met Posts! We only had 2 to put in but it was one of the most frustrating jobs we have tackled in our garden so far. What is a Met Post? A Met post isn't really a post at all its a support for fence posts. There are 2 types of met post, a grip system and a twin bolt system. Being totally ignorant about these things and never really noticing what our other fence panels were put up with we decided on the twin bolt system. Also we thought if we had to remove any fence posts this type would hopefully make it a bit easier. The grip system grips the post as its banged in so it would ...  Read the complete review

When we first moved to our current property, the garden areas were really open and bare and we set about introducing some features into the garden which would allow us to separate areas and train plants to climb up and across them. Having drawn up a plan, I investigated the options for fencing off a patio area. This would only need about 5 fence posts -I planned to hang diagonal trellis on them. It's all done, now, but not with Metposts. I hadn't previously used Metposts so bought just 1 to try it out before I went and bought the other 4 I would need. I am pleased I didn't buy all 5 at once because I still have the single Metpost remaining and it's ...  Read the complete review

We have used Metpost items in our garden for a few different projects. You can buy different kinds of Metpost, Some are with a spike on the end which you hammer into the soil and then put a post inside this. The other kind is that you bolt onto a concrete floor and then fix a post in. You also have a choice of how you want to fix the post into the hole in the Metpost. Some of them you just knock the post into the fixing and it has grippers on the inside to stop the post coming back out again. Another way is to slot the post in then tighten up some bolts on the side. Then there is a third way that you push the post into the hole and then screw in from each side ...  Read the complete review