Using sleepers in garden

invisiblecabbage

Hi, was hoping some bright sparks on here could offer suggestions please.

We are redoing the back garden and plan to use sleepers to shape the space, only single sleeper height in most parts. We have some lovely metal screens that i wanted to use along part of the sleepers to act as a railing/ balustrade. I am struggling to find a neat mse solution on how to fix them to the sleepers. My initial thought was to have the screens suspended somehow between uprights. But i was not keen on having it looking too 'woody/rustic'. Plus I struggle with the thought of paying a tenner for each upright post. Any ideas on how i could do the uprights but on a budget or upcycling something?

Any thoughts gratefully received.

-taff

fix them with bolts to the sleepers?

greyteam1959

Bore holes in the sleepers & slot the railings in ???

fluffymuffy

Sleepers have been repeatedly sprayed with the most cancer-encouraging pesticides in a bid to win against a tide of Japanese Knotweed which threatens our railways.

There are some concerns about using them in gardens as they will leak toxins into the soil and into any veg that you grow. If you don't plan to eat anything from your garden then that's fine. I wouldn't take the risk.

SailorSam

Would something like this do that you could screw into the sleeper. 70p each sounds quite good to me.

http://www.buyfencingdirect.co.uk/fencing-accessories/fence-gate-fittings-and-brackets/pk-of-4-l-brackets

Mankysteve

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Sleepers have been repeatedly sprayed with the most cancer-encouraging pesticides in a bid to win against a tide of Japanese Knotweed which threatens our railways.

There are some concerns about using them in gardens as they will leak toxins into the soil and into any veg that you grow. If you don't plan to eat anything from your garden then that's fine. I wouldn't take the risk.

Presuming you the OP doesn't have untreated timbers, that would be true. I would go for bore hole and post nice and clean.

invisiblecabbage

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Sleepers have been repeatedly sprayed with the most cancer-encouraging pesticides in a bid to win against a tide of Japanese Knotweed which threatens our railways.

There are some concerns about using them in gardens as they will leak toxins into the soil and into any veg that you grow. If you don't plan to eat anything from your garden then that's fine. I wouldn't take the risk.

Don't panic these are new tanalised sleepers, not the recycled creosote ones.