Bowing Close Board Fencing

[old wrinkly]

I enclosed my garden two years ago with good quality close board fencing manufactured by Danbury Fencing Ltd of Essex and used concrete posts and gravel boards.

A couple of the panels have started to bow at the bottom so don't fit snug against the top of the gravel. board.

I'm sure I remember seeing somewhere that it's possible to get clips, think they were plastic, that would sit across the top of the gravel board and the panel would then fit into the top and so straighten the board over time, or at least stop it bowing more. The clips could be screwed to the fencing but were a loose fit on the gravel board.

Contacted Danbury Fencing who said that had the clips but these turned out to be just normal galvanised clips for fitting panels to wooden post.

Wondered if anyone knew where I might buy suitable clips.

 

[Thermo]

are they closeboard panels that slot into the posts, or actual closeboard bays, with arris rails going into mortices on the posts?

 

[old wrinkly]

Hi, the panels slide down a groove in the concrete posts as do the gravel boards.

Could also do with some clips to stop the boards rattling in the wind (the panels aren't quite the same width as the groove in the posts so are a reasonably loose), tried using various wooden wedges but they seem to drop out after a time.