Composite Fence Panels: Choosing the Style Your Site Needs, and Ordering the Right Quantity

They are sold as 6 ft × 6 ft and used that way, but the panel is 1800 × 1800 mm. A true 6 ft is 1828 mm, so each bay is about 28 mm shorter than the timber panel it usually replaces. Over one bay it is invisible; over a twelve-bay run it is about a third of a metre. Measure the boundary and count the bays before ordering, particularly if you are matching into fencing that is already there.

Divide the run by 1.8 m and round up for the panels. For posts, take that number, add one to close the run, then add two for every gate opening. One post comes with each panel, so what you add to the order is the difference. If the boundary turns corners, count each straight leg separately — each one rounds up to a whole panel on its own.

A 20GP takes 200 sets — 360 linear metres, roughly 11.5 t gross. A 40HQ takes 400 sets — 720 linear metres, roughly 23 t. Composite is heavy for its bulk, so the weight limit binds before the volume limit on nearly every order. If you are combining fencing with decking in one container, work the tonnage first.

70 sets, counted across the whole fencing order rather than per style or per colour. You can mix privacy, trellis and carved panels and several colours to reach it. 70 sets is well under a full container.

Half trellis, in most cases. A solid 1800 mm panel presents its whole area to the wind, and that load goes into the posts and their foundations — which is what fails first. The open upper third lets air through while keeping screening at eye level. If a timber fence on the same line has blown over before, that is the argument for changing the style, not just the material. We do not publish a wind load rating; post fixing and foundation design belong to the installer and depend on ground conditions.

Neither. All six colours — black, blue grey, light grey, teak, walnut and white — run across the styles, and any of them ships to any market. Choose the style from the exposure and the use, then choose the colour separately. Colour is the last decision in a fencing specification, not the first.

Partially. A carved panel has the pattern cut through the board face, so it screens the view without blocking it — light and planting read through it. That is a screen rather than a barrier. Most projects use carved panels as feature bays, on the run facing a terrace or a seating area, with plain privacy panels along the rest of the boundary.

Ours is not. We hold no EN 13501-1 reaction-to-fire classification — not a lower class, not a pending one: none. If your specification, your insurer or your local authority requires a reaction-to-fire class, we cannot satisfy that today. Testing can be arranged on the specific profile a project intends to use, cost paid up front and credited in full against the order, but it has to be raised at design stage rather than at inspection.

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 valid to April 2027, and CE marking under CPR — certificate M.2024.206.C97619 from UDEM International Certification, a notified body, valid to 11 March 2029. Ask any supplier for the certificate number and the issuing body rather than a logo; a logo on a page is not a certificate.

Bohai Woods is the brand; the legal entity is Guangdong Bangying New Material Co., Ltd., in Sihui, Zhaoqing, Guangdong. That is the name on the business licence, the ISO certificates and the invoice. If you are running supplier verification, those are the two names to expect and they should match across every document we send.

Samples are free — you cover the courier and we credit it against your first order. For fencing, ask for a board in the colour you are considering rather than a swatch: colour reads differently at panel scale. On a carved pattern, ask for the pattern itself, because the depth of the cut and the way light passes through it are the two things a photograph does not convey.