Caps for brick and concrete fence posts: types and prices

So, the caps for brick and concrete fence posts are designed to perform two functions:

1. Give the fence an aesthetic and complete look. The cap at the top of the pillar is beautiful, soundly, right. A large selection of models of caps allows you to choose an option to match the color of the fence itself, fit it into the landscape design, decorate the entrance group – a gate and a wicket;
2. Protection of pillars from destruction. Snow and rain wash away the seams of the brickwork, destroy it over time, like concrete, which is also a porous material. The cap and lids will cover the masonry and cement mortar from precipitation, will not allow moisture to seep inside.

Caps on brick and concrete pillars of the fence are also called heads, tops. By the type of material used, they are divided into the following types:

• Metallic. If the fence itself between the posts is built of corrugated board, it would be logical to choose metal caps of the same color. They are made from a thin and smooth steel sheet. The metal cap most often has a cone forum, the base is square, corresponding to the dimensions of the pillar. The base should, as it were, put on the masonry, protecting it from all sides, and the edges of the cap should protrude slightly, creating a visor. If you want and know how, you can bend the simplest steel sheet cap yourself and paint it with paint for metal. Finished factory products cost about 300 rubles, the price will depend on the complexity of the shape and metal coating. The minus of the metal head of the post is that it will make a booming sound during the rain. However, if the fence is far enough from the house, this is not a problem;

• Concrete. It will be a logical choice if the post itself is also made of concrete. If such a pommel is placed on brickwork, a fluff is often specially made at the top of the pillar – one or two rows of bricks, which are laid with a slight overlap so that a visor appears and the vertical surfaces get wet less. However, you can choose a cover just a little larger – the visor above the post will appear by itself. Concrete caps are made by pouring mortar into molds. The structure can be monolithic or prefabricated, in which case the parts are connected with an adhesive. The concrete cap can also be painted, and for reliability it can be treated with a water repellent. Ready-made concrete caps for fence supports cost about 200-280 rubles, they can be of various shapes;

• Forged. These are also metal caps, but not just ordinary cones or flat tops, but real works of art created by blacksmiths. It is clear that the price of such an elegant, attractive, unique cap on the fence can be very different and amount to about 5,000 rubles and more. The forged cap looks especially appropriate next to the same openwork fence;

• Two less popular varieties so far are fiberglass and polymer-sand composite caps. Fiberglass is lighter, cost about the same as metal. Polymer-sand composite heads cost about 1100 rubles apiece, they look like shingles of a very different color.

Separately, it should be mentioned that the caps, tops on the fence posts can be equipped with lamps. Inside, they are usually hollow, which allows you to install a lighting system, a lamp holder. Lighting can be installed both along the entire perimeter of the fence, around the site, and only at the gates and wickets, illuminating the entrance to the courtyard. A simple metal cap with an already built-in lamp will cost about 1,600-3,000 rubles, the price, of course, is much higher.

As for the installation, ordinary metal caps are attached to the fence posts with screws, concrete ones – with adhesive mortar, forged structures often have to be welded on site, and polymer-sand composite caps, created strictly according to the dimensions of the post, can simply be put on the top.

Remember that if your fence is completely brick or concrete, then you will need not only caps on the posts, but also protective pads, strips around the perimeter. Such protection, as experts have calculated, can extend the life of the fence by about two times..