Postsaver: Double Life Fence Posts Preventing Premature rot at ground level

Why Postsaver Fence posts?
And Why Now?

Fence posts collapsing can be annoying or downright disastrous, not to mention expensive and time consuming. You’ve spent thousands of pounds on new fencing, only to see your stock or pets escape, your plants crushed and trees damaged. If it’s old posts that have rotted through it something you may expect.

Postsaver Application Machine at work

But if your fencing was only erected a few years ago it’s not!

Postsaver protects your fence posts from premature rot at ground level, the number one cause of fence post failure.

How does Postsaver protect your Fence?

The Postsaver System takes a treated post, using a custom application machine applies a tough dual layer sleeve to the ground-line section of the post-the vulnerable part where ground rot rates are very high.

The flexible inner bituminous sealant melts on to the post sealing its surface, and the outer tough Polythene sleeve shrinks tightly over it, preventing ground rot attack and protecting it from sharp stones.

Stakes can be installed using any of the normal methods, including driving, dig, backfill and concrete.

Why don’t fence Posts last like they used to?

The miserable discovery that fencing has failed prematurely is becoming more and more frequent as the fallout from the woods preservatives legislation begin to bite.

In 2004 the EU banned the use of arsenic and chrome in wood preservatives for timber fencing materials. Five years on and we are seeing premature post failures costing fencing contractors, Landscapers, Farmers, and Landowners thousands of pounds every year.

Removing poisons from the countryside has to be a good thing-but the replacement copper-based preservatives are in practice proving to be less effective at preventing ground rot, as the level of treatment required for long life is proving more difficult to achieve.

Fence posts are at their most vulnerable at ground level, where millions of organisms live in the top 4” or so of soil doing their important task of cleaning up dead vegetation so we’re not knee deep in rotten matter. Unfortunately they see your new fence post as dinner! What is needed is a toxin-free method of preventing ground rot attacking your fencing at its base.

Postsaver USA Application Machine at work

So what can be done? Postsaver offers the solution, hailed by one large fencing contractor as “Potentially the saviour of the fencing industry”.

How can I get Postsaver for my fence?

Postsaver Sleeves are applied permanently to posts using one of the range of purpose built application machines-fencing contractors can sleeve the posts or buy them ready sleeved from a Postsaver stockist.

New suppliers are getting more lively business as all enquiries are routed to the nearest stockist.
Postsaver is fully cost-effective, “says Director Richard George. Fifteen years without a single post failure, backed by extensive independent research, means that we are confident of a 25 year plus life for the product. Not having to replace the fence every few year’s results in huge cost and time saving.

Independent research proves Postsaver Protection of timber posts.

The UK-Manufactured and patented Postsaver System is fully tested and proven. It has sold in the USA for 15 years, and its sleeved fence posts have been the object of tests over a long period-by Mississippi University, and the Building research Establishment.

Postsaver protected stakes and control samples without Postsaver after 8 years in ground testing.



Stakes treated by dipping in 3% CCA solution with ground-line wrap after 8 years in ground contact.		Control stakes treated by dipping in 3% CCA solution after 8 years in ground contact.

Environmental Effects of Timber Fencing Failures

The wholesale waste of timber by our inability to protect it is an environmental shame. Growing and processing wood for an effective life measured few years is environmentally unsound.

More fencing means more trees cut down, more timber imports more impact on our native woodlands.

Postsaver has in the past been viewed by some as an incidental fencing product, but it is now becoming a mainstream commercial choice. One major sawmill owner has said that in a few year’s time every post that goes into the ground will end up with a Postsaver sleeve.

Pictures - Postsaver posts at the Gettysberg National Military Park