Gawler and the northern suburbs
Colorbond, timber and tubular fencing. We set the posts right in clay ground, so your fence stays straight.
New fences, replacements and gates. We are fencing contractors who also run our own excavators, so hard ground does not hold the job up. If you are still weighing up materials, our guide on how to choose the right fence for your Adelaide home is a good place to start.
The most common choice around Gawler. No painting, no oiling, and it holds its colour through hot summers. We set it against the other options in our rundown of Colorbond, timber and other fencing in Adelaide.
Estate blocks are full of rubble, and clay goes rock hard in summer. We drill the holes off the excavator instead of fighting them by hand. It is the same gear we use for excavation, trenching and drainage.
Treated pine palings and post and rail. A natural look, and a good fit for the bigger blocks out towards Angle Vale and Two Wells.
Powder coated tubular panels for front fences and garden divides, where you want to keep the view open.
The fence you share with a neighbour. We price it clearly, so you have a real figure to show them before anything starts.
Old fence out, old footings dug up, and the rubbish on our truck. The new fence goes in on the same job, and the soil and rubble removal is part of it.
Single and double gates, sized so a trailer or mower fits through. Hung on posts set to take the weight.
Clay grips the side of a post. As the ground rises and settles through the seasons it takes the post with it, a fraction at a time, and levers it off vertical. Give that a few years and the whole run tells on itself:
None of that is fixed by a heavier panel. It is decided in the hole. We bore each hole well below the layer that shifts, then bed the post in concrete rather than tipping the dug soil back in around it, and we give the footings time to go off before a rail is touched.
A string line goes up before the first post drops in. Every post after it is set to that one line, so the fence is straight from the start rather than nudged into shape later.
Where the ground falls away too steeply to fence cleanly, the answer is often a low retaining wall with the fence on top. We build both, so it is one quote and one crew.
A fence on the boundary is a shared job in South Australia. Most of the trouble starts when you raise it without a price in hand.
The cost of a boundary fence is usually split between both owners. It normally starts with written notice to your neighbour, setting out what you plan to do.
Old fences drift over the years. On subdivided blocks, the line on the plan and the line on the ground are not always the same.
This is general information to help you plan. It is not legal advice. Rules change and every boundary is different, so check the current rules or get advice before you commit.
Five steps, from the first measure along the boundary to the last panel going on.
We measure the run, check the fall, and look at what is standing there now.
A price for the whole run, broken down enough that a neighbour can see what they are paying for.
We pull the old fence and dig the footings out. The lot leaves on our truck.
String line up, holes bored deep, posts concreted and left to cure.
Panels go on plumb and gates are hung square. Then we tidy the line and go.
Gawler and the northern suburbs sit inside our standard coverage band, so the crews are in them most weeks. They travel out from the two bases, Mannum and Waterloo Corner, and go further across greater Adelaide by arrangement. If your place sits further south west, there is a separate page for fencing in Salisbury. Suburbs we fence often:
We take fence work outside these ten suburbs as well, so a missing name is not a no. The number is 0483 905 611. If the fence is one part of a bigger job, we also do landscaping in Gawler and paving and driveways in Gawler.
The cost of a fence on the boundary is usually split between both owners. It normally starts with written notice to your neighbour, setting out what you plan to do. We can quote the work so you have a real figure to show them. This is general information, not legal advice, so check the current rules before you commit.
Most standard boundary fences do not need approval. Taller fences, front fences near the road, and pool fencing have their own rules. It depends on the height, where it sits, and your council. We tell you what your fence needs at the site visit, and we check with the council.
Colorbond needs less looking after. It handles hot dry summers without warping, and there is no oiling or re-staining. Treated timber suits a natural look and bigger rural blocks. Either way it is the posts and footings that decide how long the fence stays straight, not the panels.
Yes. On a slope a fence is either stepped, so each panel sits level and the fence drops in steps, or raked, so the panels follow the ground. We show you both at the site visit. Where the fall is steep we can build a low retaining wall first and fence off the top.
Yes. Pulling out the old fence and digging up the old footings is part of the quote. We have the trucks, so it leaves on the day instead of sitting on your verge.
We measure the run on the ground, check what the soil is doing, and put a firm number against it. The visit is free and you are not signed up to anything.