Every story has a beginning and every company grows out of an idea and a perceived need.

Rapier’s fence palings grew from an embryonic idea when the basic ‘aged and tired’ brown picket fence, along the front of the bungalow we had just moved into, needed to be replaced.

Searching the internet for picket fence palings, with a difference, was a disaster. Pointed, round and flat topped palings were all that were on offer. So, with a practical background, I designed and made my own, as above.

For several years I considered designing and marketing fence palings as an alternative to the ‘standard three’ but other interests meant that it was mentally retained on the ‘back burner’

With over 40 years experience as a consultant I applied for a range of consultancy appointments but never received a reply and was often told I was ‘overqualified’ – an excuse for ageism. I wanted to keep mentally alert and active and the idea of offering a range of unusual paling designs, in good quality timber, with which a picket fence, and gates, could be created, to reflect personal individuality, kept surfacing in my mind.

Further research indicated that there was nothing like I envisaged, as a range of palings, available in the UK. So eventually, it became now or never. The website was designed, and fence palings from the Rapier Products Ltd became available on-line.

We, as far as can be ascertained, are the only company in the UK offering a range of designer paling heads, from which individually designed picket fences, and matching gates, can be created, supplied in good quality planed finish softwood, purchased from timber merchants who supply wood from sustainable sources.

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