Rural Fencing Sydney

Rural Fencing in Sydney

The honest starting point for rural fencing in Sydney is that you are dealing with access constraints that vary from a wide western verge to an inner-west rear lane. Everything we specify follows from working with that rather than pretending it is not there.

Sydney sits in the greater Sydney basin, and the ground reflects it. Working over reactive shale clay in the west, sandstone and sand through the coast and north, on everything from flat river plain to steep sandstone escarpment, we design rural fencing for what the site will do over the next twenty years rather than for how it looks on the day.

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

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

Working With Sydney Site Conditions

The practical constraint on most Sydney jobs is councils that each interpret the same state controls slightly differently. We work the materials route out before quoting, because a barrow run instead of a truck changes the program substantially.

We allow for a very wide range of housing eras with different original boundary types because it drives material selection more than aesthetics do. Specifying around it costs a little more once and saves replacing the job early.

It is worth knowing about coastal salt exposure on one side of the city and cracking clay on the other before you commit to a design. It does not rule anything out, but it changes the detail and it belongs in the quote rather than in a conversation on the day.

The Faults We See Most Often in Sydney

Half the skill in rural fencing around Sydney is knowing what not to disturb. Established gardens, old services and ground conditions that change completely between one side of the basin and the other all sit in the way of the obvious approach.

• Strainer assemblies that have pulled and let a whole run go slack
• A boundary that no longer contains what it needs to contain
• Rotted timber posts at the moisture line across a long boundary
• Mesh that has been pushed out of shape by stock leaning on it

Specification Notes for Sydney

The parts you cannot see once the job is finished are the parts worth paying for: footings, drainage, fixings and substructure. That is as true in Sydney as anywhere.

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.

• A sight rail or top wire gives an animal something to see, which stops it walking into the line at speed.
• Timber post and rail needs the rails morticed or properly fixed, because a rail that pops out is a hazard in a paddock.
• Hinge joint has vertical stay wires that flex under impact and return, which is why it survives stock pressure.
• A wire fence holds its shape because of the strainer assemblies at each end, not because of the intermediate posts.
• Barbed wire and horses are a poor combination on any boundary a horse will lean on.

Types of Rural Fencing for Sydney Properties

The Way We Run a Sydney Project

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

Everything is measured on site and photographed, and the quote is written from that rather than from a phone conversation. That is why what arrives on the day is what was priced.

• Long run boundary replacement
• Hinge joint and ringlock stock fencing
• Farm and entrance gates
• Electric fence integration
• Horse mesh and equine safe netting
• Cattle and horse yard fencing