Overview

Standard building aggregates require manual mixing ratios, shovel work, and up to 24 to 48 hours of curing time before you can safely subject them to tension. Leaving a fresh fence run unsupported for that long risks having your posts knocked out of alignment by overnight wind loads or shifting soil. Buildit Postfix Concrete bypasses this waiting period entirely, providing an ultra-dense structural anchor that stabilizes your perimeter supports almost instantly.

Comprising a high-specification blend of premium Portland cement, targeted accelerator chemicals, and sharp grading sands, this formulation creates a highly durable, low-porosity concrete plug deep within the subsoil. It behaves as a rigid foundation jacket, evenly distributing the lateral load forces generated by high winds across the surrounding soil matrix to eliminate leaning or wobbling.

Key Features

• Maximum Efficiencies On-Site: Speeds up your workflow significantly—by the time you dig your next post hole, the previous post is already locked firmly in place.

• Advanced Water-Activated Matrix: The blended particles absorb liquid evenly from the bottom up, preventing dry unmixed pockets or weak internal voids.

• Subterranean Frost Protection: Dries into a tight, durable cell structure that resists cracking and crumbling during extreme winter freeze-and-thaw cycles.

• Eco-Conscious Packaging: The highly durable plastic bag prevents puncture tearing, reduces product waste, and can be handled easily in wet weather conditions.

Technical Specifications

The Method: Step-by-Step Installation

Quantity Guide Tip: For a standard 100mm x 100mm (4″ x 4″) fence post set into a standard 300mm x 600mm (24″) deep hole, you will require exactly 1 to 1.5 bags of Buildit Postfix. If you are installing heavy driveway gate posts or working in exceptionally soft, sandy soil conditions, increase the hole width and budget for 2 bags per post to provide a wider structural footprint.

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– Durable and long-lasting: Iroko hardwood is renowned for its exceptional strength and resistance to rot, decay, and insect damage.

– Sustainably sourced: Our Iroko hardwood is sourced from responsibly managed forests, ensuring a reduced environmental impact.

– Planed finish: The posts have been planed to provide a smooth surface, ideal for various applications.

– Versatile uses: Suitable for fencing, Gates, decking, construction, and other outdoor projects.

Specifications

– Material: Iroko hardwood

– Finish: Planed

– Dimensions: Available sizes 185mm x 185mm and 140mm x 140mm

– Dimensions: Available length up to 3000mm in 140mm – 4200mm in 185mm

– Treatment: Untreated

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Overview

The top end-grain of a vertical fence slat acts like a bundle of tiny straws, eagerly wicking rainwater straight down into the core of the timber. Without proper shielding, this moisture buildup leads to rapid rot, splitting, and panel failure. While a decorative capping rail sheds this water away, it cannot be mounted securely to the jagged, uneven profile of overlapping featheredge boards on its own. That is where our Fencing Counter Rail comes in.

As shown in the structural diagram, the rectangular counter rail runs directly underneath your capping. It sits tucked between your fence posts, fitting snugly behind the thin top edge of the boards. This creates a solid, solid-timber sandwich that locks your fence slats in a perfectly straight line, completely preventing the upper tips from warping or bowing outward over years of summer heat waves and winter storms.

Key Features

• Stabilizes Upper Framing: Adds an extra horizontal bracing point right at the highest stress zone of your fence panels, increasing overall wind resistance.

• Creates a Flush Fixing Zone: Eliminates uneven gaps, making it simple to drive screws or nails straight down through your capping rail into a solid wood core.

• Anti-Bleed Protection: Advanced chemical treatments ensure the preservative salts bond deeply with the heartwood fibers, eliminating ugly chemical bleeding down your new fence face.

• Easy On-Site Adaptation: Sawn from high-density, sustainably sourced softwood that trims down cleanly for custom bay widths or garden gates.

Technical Specifications

Trade Installation & Alignment Tip

Pro Tip: For a flawless, professional finish, your counter rail should be installed completely flush with the top edge of your vertical featheredge boards. If you are using wooden fence posts with pre-cut notches, the counter rail should slot neatly into the shallow rectangular cutout right at the top of the post.

Fixing Rule: Secure the counter rail to the inside of your framework first. Next, nail your vertical featheredge boards directly to it. Finally, pop your weathered capping rail over the top and drive your fasteners down through the capping, straight through the featheredge tips, and deep into the counter rail underneath. This triple-layer interlocking method creates an unyielding top edge that will never twist or rattle loose.

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Overview

The top end-grain of a vertical fence slat acts exactly like a bundle of tiny straws, eagerly wicking pooling rainwater straight down into the heart of the wood. Without a reliable shield, this constant moisture saturation leads to fast rotting, splitting, and panel warp within just a few seasons. Our structural Timber Fencing Capping Rail provides the definitive defense.

As shown in the product image, the rail features clean, dual-angled edges (often called a two-way weathered or chamfered profile). This specific geometry ensures that even during torrential downpours, water is deflected cleanly clear of the underlying fence face. Milled from slow-grown, high-density softwood, these horizontal caps add considerable structural rigidness to the upper framing, tying the posts and panels into a single, cohesive unit that resists heavy wind rattle.

Key Features

• Deflects Downward Rot: Stops water from seeping directly into the exposed top-cuts of vertical featheredge fencing or pre-assembled panels.

• Smooth-Planed Trade Profile: Features a beautifully finished, splinter-free surface that looks excellent on both modern residential and traditional cottage boundaries.

• Anti-Bleed Preservative Wash: Advanced high-pressure chemical treatments ensure the defensive copper triazole salts bond deeply within the heartwood matrix, eliminating orange streaks.

• On-Site Flexibility: Available in standard trade length (3.0m) that trim down smoothly to perfectly accommodate custom fence bay widths, side gates, or corners.

Technical Specifications

Trade Installation & Assembly Tip

Pro Tip: Never nail a capping rail directly onto the top of your vertical fence boards without internal support—doing so leaves air gaps that trap water and causes nails to pop out as the wood expands.

The Professional Method: Always run a flat Fencing Counter Rail horizontally right along the top back-edge of your featheredge boards first. Once your boards are sandwiched tightly against the counter rail, place this chamfered capping rail over the flat top. Drive high-torque, exterior-grade screws or hot-dipped galvanised nails vertically straight down through the thick center apex of the capping rail, passing through the board tips, and sinking deep into the counter rail below. This interlocking design will never twist or blow off in a storm!

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Overview

A standard horizontal gravel board spans up to 3 meters between fence posts. While it safely keeps your vertical panels clear of damp soil, the sheer weight of the overlapping featheredge boards combined with seasonal ground movement puts massive downward stress right at the center of that span. Without support, a timber gravel board will slowly sag and dip, leaving a gaping hole for pests to squeeze under and causing your vertical boards to pull out of alignment. Our structural Fencing Centre Peg completely solves this structural weakness.

By driving this thick-gauge, slow-grown softwood stake directly into the subsoil behind the board, you create an unyielding mid-bay pillar. The peg pins the center of the gravel board firmly in place, distributing weight straight into the ground and stabilizing your entire lower framing system.

Key Features

• Resists Heavy Soil Pressures: Acts as a mini retaining anchor, preventing your gravel board from bowing outward if your lawn sits slightly higher on one side.

• Heavy-Duty Square Cut: The thick, solid cross-section handles high-impact mallet force without splitting or shattering during installation.

• Anti-Bleed Corrosion Shield: Advanced premium chemical washes ensure the defensive copper triazole salts bond deeply within the heartwood matrix, eliminating orange staining.

• Contractor-Preferred Sizing: Tucks neatly out of sight behind the lower framing rail, maintaining clean, unblemished sightlines across your primary fence panels.

Technical Specifications

Trade Installation & Alignment Tip

Pro Tip: To achieve a rock-solid finish, fix your main fence posts and level out your 3.0m horizontal gravel board first. Walk to the back (inside) face of the fence bay and mark the exact midpoint (1.5m).

The Professional Method: Place the flat face of the centre peg against the inside of the gravel board. Using a heavy club hammer or maul, drive the pointed peg down into the earth until the flat top sits flush with (or slightly below) the top edge of your gravel board. Secure the peg tightly to the board using two heavy-duty, exterior-grade 75mm wood screws or hot-dipped galvanised twist nails. If your soil is exceptionally soft or waterlogged, you can drop a small splash of rapid-setting Postcrete around the base of the peg for an absolute ironclad anchor!

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Overview

Traditional rigid plastic buckets split, crack, and drop their handles under pressure. Flexi-Fill Flexible Tubs & Trugs redefine utilitarian storage by trading rigid mechanics for high-impact fluid flexibility. Designed to handle both domestic tasks and industrial work sites, these multi-purpose containers bend under weight rather than breaking, making them a long-lasting replacement for standard household buckets.

From a gardening perspective, they are the perfect companion for weeding, harvesting, and composting. Trade workers rely on them for moving rubble, mixing mortar, and transporting heavy hand tools. Because the plastic is completely non-porous, cleanup is effortless—dried cement, paint, or mud flakes right off with a simple tap on the base.

Key Applications

• Gardening & Landscaping: Ideal for collecting lawn clippings, transporting logs, mixing liquid fertilizers, or carrying heavy bags of topsoil.

• Construction & DIY: Perfect as a mortar-mixing basin, tool caddy, debris collector, or painting reservoir.

• Equestrian & Livestock: Safe for use as horse feed buckets, water troughs, or hay transport bins.

• Home Organization: Use them as high-capacity laundry baskets, children’s toy boxes, car trunk organizers, or ice buckets for summer garden parties.

Product Variety & Capacity Matrix

Material Science & Technical Profile

• Polymer Baseline: 100% Virgin High-Density Low-LDPE Hybrid Plastic Blend.

• Chemical Properties: Completely inert, BPA-free, non-toxic, acid-resistant, and alkali-safe.

• Temperature Endurance Range: Remains structurally flexible from -20°C up to +60°C.

• Handle Configuration: Dual integrated ergonomically curved, cross-ribbed handles.

• Nesting Design: Tapered walls allow uniform, infinite nesting stacks to minimize storage footprints when not in use.

Trade Maintenance & Longevity Tip

Pro Tip: To maximize the lifespan of your Flexi-Fill trugs on rugged job sites or in commercial nurseries, avoid dragging the base of a heavily loaded tub over abrasive surfaces like rough concrete or sharp gravel tracks.

The Pro Method: While the polymer formula is highly abrasion-resistant, repetitive dragging with high-mass loads creates localized friction heat that thins out the bottom rim over time. Always use the integrated dual handles to lift heavy loads symmetrically. If you use your trugs for mixing fast-set plaster or cement, simply allow the leftover residue to dry completely inside the bucket after your shift. Once hardened, flex the sides of the tub outward, and the dried core will pop out cleanly as a single solid disk, leaving your container clean without scraping.

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Overview

The most common point of failure for any fence line, pergola, or structural timber frame is at the ground level, where moisture rotting can destroy a 100mm wood post in just a few seasons. This Bulk Buy 5-Pack of Concrete-In U-Post Supports solves this issue by separating the wood from the wet earth. By setting the heavy-gauge steel stem into a concrete foundation pad, the load of your structure is transferred directly into the ground through clean engineering steel.

These brackets are built to handle the physical leverage forces caused by high winds hitting solid-clad fence panels. The pre-punched holes in the U-shoe provide clean alignment points for heavy-duty coach screws or timber bolts, pulling the wooden post into a tight, rigid fit that won’t loosen or sway over time.

Dimensions & Technical Product Matrix

Application Guide

• Fencing Profiles: Perfect for high-stress boundary lines, closeboard bays, and acoustic privacy fencing.

• Garden Architecture: Designed to anchor heavy timber pergolas, garden arches, log stores, and gazebos.

• Ground Frameworks: Ideal for elevating sub-frame timber joists for raised decking systems on uneven or sloping ground.

Contractor Installation & Structural Levelling Tip

Pro Tip: When setting multiple concrete-in post brackets along a run—like a new fence line or a 4-post pergola—getting all five brackets perfectly level and aligned before the concrete cures can be stressful.

The Trade Method: Do not try to level each bracket individually in its separate hole. Instead, build a simple, straight timber dummy rail out of cheap scrap wood. Clamp all 5 of your U-post brackets into the dummy rail at your exact spacing distances (e.g., 1.8-meter centers for fencing). Prop up and level the entire dummy rail assembly across your dug holes using stakes. Once the rail is level and in line, pour your concrete into all five holes around the stems at the same time. This keeps everything in place, preventing brackets from twisting or sinking as the concrete cures. Leave the dummy rail clamped on until the concrete hardens!

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Overview

Navigating rural driveways or dark residential lanes at night poses a significant risk to expensive gate systems and vehicles. Delivery trucks and unfamiliar visitors frequently misjudge entrance clearances, leading to costly damage to timber gate stiles and fence lines. Gatemate High Visibility Reflectors act as an instant, non-electric guidance system, transforming invisible nighttime obstacles into brightly illuminated markers the moment headlights hit them.

Unlike cheap adhesive reflective tape that peels away, bubbles, and cracks after a single winter season, these solid-plastic reflectors are engineered for long-term outdoor survival. They are completely unaffected by sub-zero frosts, direct summer sun, or frequent pressure washing, making them a standard safety choice for agricultural farm gates and domestic estates alike.

Visibility & Technical Matrix

Key Applications

• Timber Swing & Sliding Gates: Mounted on the leading edge of gate stiles to clearly show if the gate is open or closed across a dark driveway.

• Driveway Entrance Posts: Fixed symmetrically to the left and right entrance pillars to guide vehicles safely past brick or stone pillars.

• Blind Corners & Bends: Placed along long rural tracking lines or paddock fences to keep drivers on path.

• Agricultural Farming Enclosures: Positioned on heavy timber field gates to prevent tractors and machinery from clipping posts in the dark.

Installer Placement & Symmetrical Safety Tip

Pro Tip: For the cleanest look and best performance, follow the international standard roadway color convention when mounting safety reflectors to your driveway entrance.

The Professional Method: If you are mounting reflectors to a pair of timber driveway gates or entrance posts, place White reflectors on the inside face of the entrance (facing incoming traffic) and Red reflectors on the reverse face (facing exiting traffic). For long approach lanes, space your Amber reflectors at equal heights along the side fencing. When driving your wood screws home, never use an impact driver at full torque—hand-tighten the final turns. The recessed countersink is designed to cradle the screw head; over-tightening with a power tool can split the acrylic lens and break the weatherproof sonic seal.

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Overview

A gate is only as good as the posts supporting it. Over time, the weight of a heavy timber gate creates constant downward leverage. If you utilize standard, low-grade fencing posts, they will slowly lean, causing your gate to drag on the floor or fail to latch correctly. Our Pack of 2 Redwood 2.4m Gate Posts offers the structural rigidity needed to handle heavy swinging loads while remaining perfectly balanced.

Unlike basic white spruce which only absorbs surface treatment, European Redwood features an open cellular structure that allows the preservative to penetrate deep into the heartwood core. This makes them exceptionally hardy when buried underground, where soil moisture and bacteria are at their highest concentration. At 2.4 meters long, they provide ample length to be set deep into the driveway or garden threshold, creating an unyielding frame for your perimeter opening.

Key Features

• Subterranean Root Stability: The 2.4-meter height gives you plenty of overhead clearance while leaving enough timber to sink up to $600\text{mm}$ deep into the ground substrate.

• Natural Crack Resistance: Redwood’s tight grain characteristics help it distribute internal drying stresses evenly, minimizing the deep surface splits common in cheaper timbers during dry summer spells.

• Responsibly Sourced Timber: All posts are milled from sustainably managed, slow-grown European forests, ensuring an eco-friendly footprint.

• Aesthetic Versatility: The subtle pale-green preservative tint fades over time into a natural honey-brown wood hue, which can be easily stained, painted, or treated with exterior timber oils.

Technical Specifications

Trade Installation & Postcrete Guide

Pro Tip: To mount a standard 1.8m high gate, you should bury roughly 600mm of this 2.4m post into the ground. Dig a hole 300mm wide to give yourself a solid concrete envelope around the base.

Important Step: When cutting a post to length or squaring off the top, always apply an end-grain preservative fluid (like Ensele or similar brush-on treatments) to the freshly cut surface. Even though the timber is pressure treated, cutting it exposes raw wood fibers. Never bury a cut end down into the ground; always keep the original factory-treated end at the bottom of the hole to preserve the structural integrity of the UC4 seal. Use 1.5 to 2 bags of rapid-setting Postcrete per hole for a fast, rock-solid anchor.

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Overview

Standard closeboard or lap-panel fences can sometimes feel imposing, sealing off natural light and making smaller outdoor seating spaces feel cramped. Our 6ft x 1ft Square Garden Trellis offers a beautiful design compromise. By mounting this low-profile panel directly onto the top of your existing fence line, you gain extra boundary height and security without blocking out the afternoon sun or casting deep shadows across your flowerbeds.

Milled from slow-grown, high-density softwood, our trellis panels feature thick, intersecting internal battens that are securely pinned together at every intersection. This cross-linked geometry distributes wind load forces cleanly, preventing the internal grid from rattling loose during autumn storms. The subtle green preservative tint blends seamlessly into natural garden backgrounds and matures beautifully over time.

Key Features

• Instant Boundary Height Extensions: Easily increases a standard 5ft fence run to a full 6ft privacy barrier without the high cost of buying completely new fence panels.

• Rebated Structural Framework: The internal mesh is nested deep inside an outer frame rim, completely eliminating exposed, raw edge joints that trap water.

• Anti-Bleed Corrosion Shield: Constructed using rust-resistant, hot-dipped galvanised fixings that stop ugly orange streaks from ruining your timber panels.

• Dual-Aspect Decorative Appeal: Designed symmetrically so that both you and your neighbors enjoy an identical, clean, professional view of the wood grain.

Technical Specifications

Trade Installation & Fitting Tip

Pro Tip: Installing this 1ft trellis panel as a fence topper can be done in two simple ways depending on your current post setup:

Method 1 (Slotted Concrete/Timber Posts): If your fence lines feature tall, slotted posts with extra overhead clearance, simply slide this 6ft wide trellis straight down the tracks so it rests directly on top of your primary fence panel.

Method 2 (Flush Timber Posts): If your wooden posts cut off flush with your current panels, you can extend them using Timber Post Extensions or cleats. Secure two structural wooden battens vertically to the back of your existing post joints, allowing them to project 1ft over the top line. Slide your trellis between these brackets and secure it firmly with high-torque exterior wood screws for a seamless finish.

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