Site entrance gates

[flanagaj]

I've been using Heras panels for our site entrance, but last night's storm has busted them and I lost a pair last year to wind.  I'm now contemplating just buying a set of proper steel site gates and putting them.  Yes. They are nearly £900, but I just need a better solution than Heras.  

 

We have nosey neighbours and I like to screen it off and am currently using the hoarding that supposedly allows the wind through, but it's definitely not that great and is probably the reason for panels snapping.

 

Caravan life is great.  It's either been Baltic or lashing down.  We want to get cracking, but the weather is certainly not in our favour.

[Russell griffiths]

Look on Facebook, normally a few sets on there knocking around for half what your quoting, will sell for same money at end. 

[kandgmitchell]

7 hours ago, flanagaj said:

Caravan life is great.  It's either been Baltic or lashing down.

Baltic? you must be in the first balmy part of caravan life, early days, wait until it gets Yellowknife like (minus 32 tonight...)

[Oz07]

Need a big old hole for the proper site gates. I think heras would be fine without the netting but you want the privacy

[Onoff]

Heras fencing with a dense camo net over it?

[Eric]

58 minutes ago, Onoff said:

Heras fencing with a dense camo net over it?

You wouldn’t see them then though…… 👀

[torre]

Scaffold debris netting is really cheap and it's easy to fix multiple layers over your Heras to trade off letting wind through versus total privacy.

If you want more wind protection then diagonally brace using a scaffold pole fixed to the Heras with a swivel coupler onto another pole fixed into the ground.

[Great_scot_selfbuild]

On 09/01/2026 at 08:34, flanagaj said:

We have nosey neighbours and I like to screen it off

We used this stuff to screen our heras fencing. Just secured it with zip ties. £44 for 50m (2m high) - saved me £££ over the proper screening stuff. Can look thin (if you get right up to it), but if that’s a concern you can always double it up. As for wind, if you can, put it on the upwind side and it’ll put less stress on the zip ties.

 

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