Learned the hard way about cheap fence post caps

I bought 50 plastic post caps from a big box store for about $40 last spring. By August, half of them had cracked and fallen off from the sun. I spent another Saturday replacing them all with metal ones that cost me $3 each this time. That $40 lesson taught me to just spend the extra money upfront on fence parts that face the weather. Anybody else get burned by plastic fence parts that don't hold up?

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kai_webb911mo ago

Man, I used to be all about saving a buck on stuff like that too. I figured plastic was plastic and it'd hold up fine, but seeing your post makes me realize I was wrong. Definitely gonna go with metal from now on after hearing how fast those caps failed.

brianreed1mo ago

Wait, fast? How fast are we talking here? Like a few months or a couple of years? I've been using the same plastic caps on my setup for like three years now and they're still holding up, but maybe I just got lucky or something. Makes me wonder if I should start checking them more often before they suddenly give out. That's wild if they're really failing that quick on people.

pat_moore1mo ago

Fast" as in three years? That's still holding up fine in my book.