When it comes to garden fencing using timber fence panels is a quick, convenient and affordable way to fence off your garden. Fence panels and how you use the panels can set off the best aspects of your garden or if you make a poor choice can provide disappointment every time your eye catches them.
Fence panels tend to be standard widths of approximately 6ft, so renewing fence panels at a later date is easy. Panel heights also tend to be standard going in 1ft increments from 3ft high through to 6ft high as a rule.
Fitting fence panels is straight forward, they can either be nailed to timber posts or slotted between concrete slotted posts. The only slight problem with installing fence panels is that on sloping ground the rigid panels have to be stepped down the slope so the top of the fence isn't a flowing line, more a series of steps.
If you are operating on a tight budget the cheapest option will be a lower height panel fence mounted on timber posts. The lower height will reduce your privacy and in all likelihood the timber fence posts will rot at ground level before a concrete fence post would, but you will get a serviceable fence that will give you a good many years service.
In the world of fence panels the most inexpensive variant of panel tends to be the waney edge panel. This is typically a lighter weight panel constructed with thin horizontal boards with a framed surround to the panel and a capping rail to finish off. These panels, once damaged are non to easy to repair and generally need replacing in their entirety. The sawn timber is generally dip treated.