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The general public, fencing contractors, landscape architects, garden designers, and any company/person involved in installing picket fences, now have the opportunity to change the face of paling fences with over 100 wooden picket fence, and associated gate, designs from Rapier Products Ltd which can be seen on www.picket-fences.co.uk.

At last, anyone involved in garden design is freed from the traditional basic designs of pointed, rounded and flat topped palings which have dominated picket fence design in the UK. Rapier’s designer paling heads of full, and half, Candle, Bishop, Arrow, Bollard and Blank shapes provide the contractor and designer with a business opportunity to create individuality in picket fence design.

Highly competitive with metal fencing and hedges Rapier’s quality designer palings can be used to provide security, delineate property or demarcate areas within it. Planed all round 25 mm thick softwood this totally new range of Candle, Bishop,

“As far as we understand Rapier Products Ltd. is the only UK company offering such a wide range of designer picket fence paling possibilities” explained Managing Director Ray Pearson. “All designs are registered with Intellectual Property Rights and protected by Registered Design Status. Although we presently have four basic paling head designs we have plans to extend this and introduce a wide range of new and totally unusual picket fence paling designs and associate products.

“Most picket fence palings are nominal sized rough sawn, but Rapier’s are supplied full 100 mm by 25 mm untreated, planed all round. This allows increased business potential for the industry as the picket fence can then be made, painted, stained or treated by the contractor creating increased business. All timber is from the sawmill of a local estate which maintain timber sustainability” he explained.

Rapier’s web site – www.picket-fences.co.uk – illustrates nearly 100 picket fence, and related gate, designs which can be created using their designer fence paling heads. They can also produce palings to virtually any design, and in hardwood, if required.

Rapier’s palings are sold in quantities sufficient to make 1 m of fence. All that is required is to select the style and height and enter the total length of picket fence required. The web site calculator will establish the number of paling required.

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