I'm not sure why I'm surprised, 7 x 6x6 close board panels with gravel boards and concrete posts, installed plus removed of all the old stuff intertwined with 25yrs of Ivy - £2000
Just a kind of resigned moan really, its time for me to learn DIY for sure.
If you can't see the fence for the ivy, that probably accounts for at least a quarter of the price 😄
6'x5' tanilised hit and miss panel now cost £68 each. Add in a gravel board and even with the fact that we have the posts already in place and just drop the new stuff in, it still seems silly expensive.
Neighbour on the back keeps reminding me that the panels are rotting at the bottom. Until the next storm takes them down, they can stay there.
Some timber has quadrupled in price over the last year. A lot of timber in the uk comes from Russia - so likely to up more
Hand built feather edge triple rail fence with 4inch posts. Cost around £2k in materials for 2 No 25 metre runs.
A week to install. Paid the guy £750.
It is the only one in the run of 8 houses still standing after 2 batterings since it’s been up
My cricket club has been quoted £25000 to replace the fencing around the ground following storms. It's not covered on insurance so we is somewhat ****ed... 😢
Edit - it's not fancy and the ground is not that big
My cricket club has been quoted £25000 to replace the fencing around the ground following storms.
Can they use metal palisade fencing or does it need to be timber ? What sort of linear meterage ?
This is what £750 of fencing materials looks like, right now.
Adding another £750 of labour to turn it into a fence over the next couple of days.
Can they use metal palisade fencing or does it need to be timber ?
Needs to be timber. We are surrounded by an agricultural colleges land. Separate issue on going about ownership etc of ground etc, but its not straightforward 😢
This is what £750 of fencing materials looks like, right now.
Wooden posts?
Sounds like an opportunity for a fundraiser to purchase materials . Get a local merchant to give you some discount in return for advertising Then if you get dozen people involved you could probably have it up in no time. Buy some post digging tools ( wickes do decent ones at a good price ) . Decent drill / impact drivers to fix the rails, then nail gun to fix the timber boards. You could get a lot done on a weekend with willing people
With a problem of this sort it's important to remain "on guard";-)
APF
Sounds like an opportunity for a fundraiser to purchase materials
Yep. There's a GoFundMe set up. We'd already repaired it after Arwen and then the next buggers came through and wrecked it completely.
With a problem of this sort it’s important to remain “on guard”;-)
You are d'Artagnan and I claim my £5
It's just expensive to do everything, did our front fence a couple of years ago, was about 400 quid for the wood and gate, a few bags of postcrete and about a thousand screws. took a couple of days to put up, but labour quotes at the time was moving it up to 800-1000.
Doing the back fence later this year, taking down the brick wall, skipping it, then putting in the concrete gravel boards and posts and wooden panels, the price for this kit is going to be over 1k, it's just daft the price of wood and other supplies these days.
I’ve found wickes and B&Q to be cheaper than the local timber merchants recently. If you can manage to blag a “trade” card, then even more so
Our back fence died in December due to age and tonnes of Ivy. 6 pressure treated panels plus posts, came to £500 Inc screws, brackets, post crete. Found wickets to be the cheapest, the local timber merchants were only offering dip treated materials. That would have gone up now due to storms.
Wouldn't bother with post create again. For replacing multiple posts I'd get a mixer and do it properly so the posts aren't sitting in soil.
Fastest £400 I spent getting the gate replaced, they put in a spur for the existing post and they were done within 2 hours 😭, on the flip side the gate now works and looks solid.
Quoted £1400 for about 14m of fencing and adding a post, existing posts are concrete, but there are 3m gaps between posts.
From the quotes above this seems reasonable but isn't the whole garden 😂
Has anyone switched to the metal fencing (e.g. from ColourFence)? I imagine it's expensive but hopefully pays for itself over time as it won't rot - I can't decide if it looks too industrial or not though.
I’m not sure why I’m surprised, 7 x 6×6 close board panels with gravel boards and concrete posts, installed plus removed of all the old stuff intertwined with 25yrs of Ivy – £2000
That's not the price of fencing, that's the price of someone's labour.
Annoys me when people seemingly resent paying for someone's time and skill.
If you think it's too expensive, then give it a bash yourself.
Alpin at no point did I complain about that in my OP, and I’m sure you’d agree than anyone asking for any job is right to do their due diligence on a quote - especially as it’s a job I haven’t had quoted for…. Ever.
I can see the (elevated) costs of the materials myself, with labour showing at £290 per day for a job I can’t do, I’m not devaluing it just making sure I’m not being ripped off, money is tight for everyone.
Plant hedges instead of fencing. Lasts forever, storm resistant, soaks up noise and particulate pollution, looks nicer and much better for insect, bird and hedgehog life.
That’s not the price of fencing, that’s the price of someone’s labour.
Annoys me when people seemingly resent paying for someone’s time and skill.
If you think it’s too expensive, then give it a bash yourself.
It's a ballaching job for sure - I think my fence took me 2 days of backbreaking work to clear and dig out old post crete. Then dispose of the materials (£200 skip), followed by 2 days hard work to install the new fence. Easy to get to £1.5 - £2k to have someone do it (£500 materials + skip + 3 days work @£250/day (as I'm sure the'd be quicker than me!)
fazzini a new fence would be a great advertising banner for a local company for its lifetime if you can cut a deal with someone. Local paper coverage etc.
Don’t let ivy grow all over your fences, no DIY skills required.
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@scotroutes - ouch!
@kryton57 - the only way you learn to do these things is have a crack at it.
I did the back and down one side of our garden quite a few years ago now - maybe 2013 or 2014. I think it cost about £1500 in materials from memory - but no Labour as I did a lot myself - plus roped in my dad / father in law for some of it.
It’s back breaking work as I dug out all the old concrete round the wooden posts where needed and as it was a custom built feather edge fence before (different spacing to off the shelf panels) I had to dig quite a few new holes.
We went with concrete posts and gravel boards and then decent quality feather edge type panels rather then the ones from wickes etc that seem to disintegrate in fairly short order.
You get into a rhythm after a while - but the concrete posts (2.7m long) are more than 20kgs in weight - the big corner ones are 80kg in weight 😳. Luckily we only used one of the heavy corner ones - that wasn’t much fun tbh.
It was satisfying to do and saved a lot of money - even after the recent storms they are all ok - and we have a couple of playing fields backing onto our house so it gets really windy. Lots of people lost fence panels around here.
Tools needed ideally are:
Spirit level plus a long bit of wood to go between the tops of the posts
Trench / drainage shovel
A post hole digger I borrowed was useful - but not essential.
Trowel
Tape measure
Hose pipe
I also had a fence post auger - the ground round here is really rocky so a combination of all of the above tools did the job.
Labour charge will definitely be the lions share of that quote you had - given how hard work it is / time consuming it doesn’t sound outrageous to me.
Just build a wall like I did up in the high country with big wind
Well fencing doesn’t grow on trees does it ? Not sorry ! 😬
£2000 sounds pretty reasonable to me. I paid a grand for 5 panels, new concrete posts + a gate about 5 years ago.
I did do 10 panels myself once when I was younger, stronger and fitter. It wasn't fun though, 1920s house with at least 3 different old concrete footings under each post. Put me off for life.
With a problem of this sort it’s important to remain “on guard”;-)
You are d’Artagnan and I claim my £5
Rapier wit....
Plant hedges instead of fencing. Lasts forever, storm resistant, soaks up noise and particulate pollution, looks nicer and much better for insect, bird and hedgehog life
If I didn't have a dog to deal with that would be my answer.
As for panels, waste of space as they just catch the wind. Build a proper fence that lets the wind through and it'll still be standing years after the panels have been replaced. I followed the 1/3 rule when I built mine (1/3 of the post is buried)
Doing it yourself is an easy job to talk about. My folks house is built on sand so is easy to fling a fence up in a few hours. In contrast I spent an entire day with a petrol post digger doing 8 holes in my garden as it's full of rubble.
Ours is one its last legs too following the storms, and one panel completely gone.
Anyone looked at more leftfield alternatives for replacement? I was wondering about some sort of woven willow/hazel screen, which would look nicer and hopefully be more wind resistant (plenty of gaps).
If dogs is an issue then use chicken wire or the woven willow idea with hedging to give screening/barrier whilst the hedge grows in.
Out of laziness, a roll of cleft paling fence and a few stakes should fill the gap at the end of the garden where the fence is giving out. It's not too common around here, so will probably have to wait until I'm working over Herefordshire way where there is more coppice work.
The price of everything these days.
There’s alternatives for using panels or feather-boarding - I need to replace the fencing between myself and next door; it’s actually their fence, the posts are set in slightly raised concrete ’blocks’ that but up against my side path, which is about a foot higher than their side access, because the road has a slight down gradient, but they’re housing association, and fencing has been such an issue over recent years the council won’t replace it any more. When a mate and I did my bottom fence, it cost about £600 for putting in the posts and featherboard, with weatherboard along the bottom, but I saw the fencing that a house had had put up not far away, which looks easier and simpler to construct, and possibly cheaper, because there’s less material involved.
Literally 20 minutes ago..
Just needs a load of concrete spurs and you can re-use pretty much all of it....
