Farm Fencing Blue Mountains

Why the Blue Mountains Owners Call Us for Rural Fencing

What makes rural fencing in the Blue Mountains different is the combination of shallow sandy soil over Narrabeen sandstone underneath and, on a great many blocks, the need to work around sandstone bedrock at shallow depth on the ridges.

Half the skill in rural fencing around the Blue Mountains is knowing what not to disturb. Established gardens, old services and asset protection zones that change what can be planted and built near a boundary all sit in the way of the obvious approach.

Most rural fencing enquiries we take in the Blue Mountains come from the same place: strainer assemblies that have pulled and let a whole run go slack. It is worth understanding why that happens here before deciding what to replace it with.

Every quote we write for the Blue Mountains comes from a site visit. Call 0492 879 796 and we will arrange one at a time that suits.

Soil, Slope and Access in the Blue Mountains

Nothing about the Blue Mountains is standard once you get past the front gate. We measure the whole site rather than the section you called about, because bushfire-prone land mapping over almost the entire local government area has a habit of turning up mid-job otherwise.

Tree cover and root zones matter around the Blue Mountains. Roots are worked around rather than cut through, both because the tree matters and because a cut root under a footing is a future problem.

On ridge-top blocks with steep escarpment falls at the rear, a level change has to be resolved rather than hidden. We work out whether it is stepped, raked or retained on site with you, before anything is measured up for order.

Why the Blue Mountains Owners Replace Rural Fencing

Owners in the Blue Mountains tend to call us at the point where patching has stopped working. By then the underlying issue is usually rotted timber posts at the moisture line across a long boundary, and a repair only postpones it.

• Gates that have dropped and now drag through the dirt
• Mesh that has been pushed out of shape by stock leaning on it
• Strainer assemblies that have pulled and let a whole run go slack
• A boundary that no longer contains what it needs to contain

Rules, Approvals and Local Controls

Heritage conservation, bushfire prone land and flood planning levels all sit on top of the standard controls in parts of the lower and mid mountains. Any of the three can change what is permitted on a boundary.

Height, position and appearance are the three things most often controlled. In the Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains City Council sets the local controls over the top of the state provisions, and forward of the building line is where they bite hardest.

Our Process on the Blue Mountains Sites

Where the job affects a neighbour, we provide an itemised written quote you can hand over. It resolves more conversations than any amount of goodwill on its own.

Services are located before excavation, every time. Around the Blue Mountains the older streets carry runs that are not where the plans say they are, and a strike is expensive for everyone.

• Electric fence integration
• Farm and entrance gates
• Strainer assemblies and corner bracing
• Long run boundary replacement
• Post and rail timber fencing
• Cattle and horse yard fencing

Rural Fencing Configurations We Install