Rural Fencing Blue Mountains

Rural Fencing Across the Blue Mountains 2780

The honest starting point for rural fencing in the Blue Mountains is that you are dealing with bushfire-prone land mapping over almost the entire local government area. Everything we specify follows from working with that rather than pretending it is not there.

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 long rural boundaries where stock, wildlife and fire access all compete.

Rural Fencing in the Blue Mountains is as much about access and set-out as it is about materials. On ridge-top blocks with steep escarpment falls at the rear, getting the sequence right is what keeps a job to program.

Talk to us before you commit to anything. Call 0492 879 796 and we will tell you what your the Blue Mountains job actually involves, including the parts nobody enjoys paying for.

Rules, Approvals and Local Controls

State provisions set the framework and Blue Mountains City Council applies it locally. Where the two interact, the practical answer is to confirm your specific address rather than rely on a general rule.

We can tell you what usually applies around the Blue Mountains, and we will always recommend confirming the current position with Blue Mountains City Council before you commit. Controls change, and a wrong assumption is expensive to unwind.

The the Blue Mountains Ground Conditions We Design For

The practical constraint on most the Blue Mountains jobs is asset protection zones that change what can be planted and built near a boundary. We work the materials route out before quoting, because a barrow run instead of a truck changes the program substantially.

Because so much of the Blue Mountains is a mix of weatherboard cottages, acreage and semi-rural holdings, boundaries and structures tend to have been built within a few years of each other. They also tend to reach the end of their life together.

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.

Getting Materials Onto a the Blue Mountains Site

We agree the working hours and the access route with you at the start. On the tighter the Blue Mountains streets that conversation saves a day, and it saves the relationship with the neighbours.

Neighbouring properties, verges and driveways get protected. Around the Blue Mountains we allow for bushfire-prone land mapping over almost the entire local government area, because a delivery in the wrong place causes more trouble than it saves.

The Faults We See Most Often in the Blue Mountains

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.

• Mesh that has been pushed out of shape by stock leaning on it
• Rotted timber posts at the moisture line across a long boundary
• A boundary that no longer contains what it needs to contain
• Gates that have dropped and now drag through the dirt

Types of Rural Fencing for the Blue Mountains Properties