Following some recent building work I now have split level in front garden with a drop of more than 600mm between flower bed area and level patio area. This will be planted soon with bushes and is not in an area that anyone would walk but, to comply with building control I need to put in a fence. It may be the case that I remove the fence in the future once building warrant has been granted so I don't want to spend more than I need to. So what is the cheapest way to put in a 1.1m vertical slat fence which will be about 3m long including a downward slope (and is very easy to remove)?
Sticks, some wire, a few staples, job jobbed?
Building control applies to gardens? thats news to me.
3m long? Some scrap fence panels from facebook
Building control applies to gardens? thats news to me.
Its the drop between levels that is the problem, any drop over 600mm needs to be made safe (Scotland rules)
I'd look for some second hand panels. My neighbour has just had his fence re-done and put the old old panels in a skip. They'd be perfectly usable. I'm sure you can find similar locally on Facebook, gumtree, or freecycle. Or pallet wood. Some timber rails, then use the planks from pallets for the slats. Quite on-trend at the moment. I've just built a shed from pallet wood and it looks OK.
Pallets
I got wood for a fence delivered yesterday and it came on a pallet. Could you place pallets on their edge and tie them together. Might need a couple of fence posts or stakes to hold them up but used pallets are usually fairly easy to get hold of. Paint with cheapo fence paint from Wilko / B&M / Aldi or wherever and it almost looks good too.
Edit, beaten to the pallet suggestion but the 2 above 🙂
(Scotland rules)
Ahhh.
Was thinking about posts on my way out to start on my fencing job. You can use drive in post bases and 2 X 2 uprights for a short fence to màke it cheaper. String between then with whatever you can find.
My fruit cage is made with these and 2 m tall 2 X 2 timbers and is very sturdy. Postcrete might be cheaper but you'll never get it out. Steel base can be cut off later if you can't get them out.
Link to example drive in base. Bigger ones are available:
https://www.toolstation.com/drive-in-post-anchor/p43369
Couple of mattresses?
Some of this - https://www.toolstation.com/orange-safety-fencing/p52159
You can get 4m rolls of willow fence screening for about £50
You can use drive in post bases and 2 X 2 uprights for a short fence to màke it cheaper.
these stakes would save having to buy timbers to use with post bases
https://www.toolstation.com/fencing-stake/p37680
we made a nice fence to replace some of those horrid panel jobs, that was much cheaper.
25mmx38mm roofing battens, but non treated ones, so they are cheaper and not blue. They came in 4.8m lengths i think.
We put in the verticals as normal, but then put the battens on using screws with a 3mm gap in between each batten. Being 4m long each batten runs over two "panels", which we did "broken bond", so the fence is now one long chain tied together.
Much more stable, less affected by wind anyway, and loads cheaper than panels. (estimated just under half the cost)
Much like this:
I was going to suggest a roll of orange safety fencing too. Cheap as chips if that's sufficiently fency.
Rather than orange safety fence, you could use green HDPE mesh - it won't catch much wind so 2x2 timber stakes will hold it up.
Thanks for the suggestions.
The regs state that slates must be vertical, I think the idea is to stop kids from climbing.
I think I have found some old picket fencing going cheap on FB, just trying to work out now if it counts as an essential journey as (just) outside of my authority area.