Rural Fencing Hills District

Rural Fencing Built for the Hills District Conditions

Rural Fencing in the Hills District is as much about access and set-out as it is about materials. On rolling ridge country with acreage in the north and dense estates in the west, getting the sequence right is what keeps a job to program.

We are based at Wentworthville and the Hills District is well inside our regular run, so a site visit is a short trip rather than a scheduling problem.

The rural fencing we install around the Hills District has to deal with Wianamatta shale clay grading to sandstone along the northern ridges and with everything from 1970s brick on quarter acres to brand new estate housing. Those two things between them explain most of what we recommend and most of what we advise against.

If you want a straight answer about what your the Hills District site actually needs, call 0492 879 796 and we will come and look at it.

Regulation and Compliance in the Hills District

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

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

The Faults We See Most Often in the Hills District

In the Hills District, this work is rarely a simple like-for-like replacement, largely because of a canopy of established trees that keeps timber damp through winter. The set-out matters as much as the material, and that is where a job either reads properly or does not.

• A boundary that no longer contains what it needs to contain
• Gates that have dropped and now drag through the dirt
• Strainer assemblies that have pulled and let a whole run go slack
• Rotted timber posts at the moisture line across a long boundary

Rural Fencing Configurations We Install

The Detail That Decides Service Life

Everything we install carries a manufacturer specification, and we install to it. Warranty claims fail on installation detail far more often than on product defect.

Where materials have to cope with acreage in Dural and Glenorie sitting a short drive from dense new estates, we upgrade the fixings rather than the visible finish. Fixings are almost always what fails first in this part of north western Sydney.

• Barbed wire and horses are a poor combination on any boundary a horse will lean on.
• Timber post and rail needs the rails morticed or properly fixed, because a rail that pops out is a hazard in a paddock.
• A wire fence holds its shape because of the strainer assemblies at each end, not because of the intermediate posts.
• A sight rail or top wire gives an animal something to see, which stops it walking into the line at speed.
• Gate posts on a farm gate carry a long lever arm, so they are strained and braced rather than simply concreted.

Site Logistics in the Hills District

Access shapes the price more than most people realise. Around the Hills District we plan around clay that moves seasonally enough to matter for any retained face, which decides whether material comes in on a truck or on a barrow, and that difference runs through the whole program.

Neighbouring properties, verges and driveways get protected. Around the Hills District we allow for long boundaries that need setting out properly before anything is ordered, because a delivery in the wrong place causes more trouble than it saves.