Fencing Solutions
Slash your total-life costs and reduce the carbon footprint of your project with fencing solutions constructed from our solid, 100% British recycled plastic.
Recycled Plastic Picket Fencing, Vertical Fencing, and Standard Fencing Options
Recycled plastic fence panels are elegant, cost-effective, and feature a classic design, offering a sustainable solution without compromise. Our recycled plastic fencing is ideal for defining areas like car parks, playing fields, and playgrounds, requiring zero maintenance and backed by a 25-year guarantee—perfect for schools, councils, and conservation parks.
Crafted from mixed plastic, our fencing is stronger and provides superior impact resistance compared to traditional options. It will never rot, split, or need treatment. Available in a wide variety of sizes, our recycled plastic fence panels and posts are a durable, environmentally sustainable option for large developments and temporary sites
Please scroll down to see technical information and considerations regarding the use of recycled plastic when designing your fencing.
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Technical Information for Using British Recycled Plastic for Fencing and Plastic Fence Posts
Expansion and Contraction
Recycled plastic expands and contracts around 5mm per metre for every 10 degrees Celsius change over around 12 degrees. Please allow for this by creating a 10mm – 15mm expansion gap between rail ends inside post joint and when drilling rails to posts. Drill holes should be slightly oversized (by approximately 3mm) to accept screws or, as an alternative method, insert a 10mm slot which will allow movement in the fencing. Fully tighten all screws and then back screw half a turn anti-clockwise.
Use standard 3.1 metre lengths of rail by staggering the rail joints 1 metre to 1.55 metres (maximum) between posts. Rails should be fixed through the central post, for mortised types, to allow the two ends to float for expansion and contraction. Always pre-drill to prevent splitting and screw bolt together wherever possible.
Recommend sections
Posts
General fencing such as post and rail – All posts 100mm square x height required and an additional one third for below ground fixing. The general rule is two thirds above ground and one third below.
Birds Mouth (Knee Rail) fencing – 80mm square x 3100mm long or 100mm square x 3100mm long with a V cut.
We recommend that post centres should be no more than 1500mm although 1000mm is even better.
Rails
Either 50mm x 100mm or 50mm x 120mm rails for post and rail types that will either be face fixed or mortised. 40mm x 100mm or 40mm x 120mm rails for picket and pale or close board types and for birds mouth / knee rail types, 100mm square rails.
Pales
Use either 20x 100mm (available in 1200mm or 1800mm only), or 30mm x 100mm or 30mm x 150mm
Recycled Fencing Working Tips
Fencing FAQ’s
We would strongly recommend using stainless steel bolts and screws for any recycled plastic structure, whether boardwalks, platforms or anything else, otherwise the fixings will need replacing long before the planks, rails and posts
We’d expect it to last several decades, probably 40-75 years if you build it well.
It is difficult and can be frustrating. We always advise drilling a pilot hole.
The grooves on the surface should always be laid across the direction that people will walk. Where used over water, the grooves should always be parallel to the bank
500mm centres are fine
Allowing for a 10mm gap between boards, each decking plank can be roughly counted as half a square metre.
Yes, we can cut your material to your specified sizes for a small charge (see price list).
We strongly recommend using 100x100mm posts (RPL005) spaced at a maximum of 1.5 metres apart, centre to centre.
In many scenarios, recycled plastic lumber can be worked like hardwood, however it is worth noting that it should never be cut lengthwise. This is to do with differing tensions between the “skin” of the recycled plastic and the inside. Nor should deep notches over 50% of the width of the plank be cut into it. Cutting a notch into a lumber plank weakens it as would be the case with timber. Therefore if notched planks are integral to your design, we suggest this is only as part of a finished product which remains static, ie. not something which is regularly moved or dismantled.
It can be cut and drilled like hardwood, but please be aware that this means you will go through blades and drill bits more quickly than if you were working with treated pine.
Recycled plastic boardwalk parts should always be stored laid flat on delivery, until you assemble them.
I’m afraid we don’t design and install ramps, platforms or boardwalks. We just manufacture and supply the boards.
Our recycled plastic does, however, cut and perform in a similar manner to hardwood planks, so the people you would normally use to make this if it were wood should be able to construct it from recycled plastic.
We would be happy to give you a price for the material and can cut it to size if you would like to supply a list of the planks you need. We are also happy to talk to any installers/joiners/volunteers on the phone if they would like additional support.
You will need to do your own workings out based on what you need using our price and product list for the sizes. Having said that, our team are available to offer lots of advice to help you make the move from wood to recycled plastic.
Recycled plastic boardwalk parts should always be stored laid flat on delivery, until you assemble them.
