Timber Paling Fencing Sydney

What Timber Fencing Involves in Sydney

Ask three contractors for timber fencing in Sydney and you may get three different answers. The difference usually comes down to whether anyone has looked at councils that each interpret the same state controls slightly differently before pricing the job.

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.

What makes timber fencing in Sydney different is the combination of reactive shale clay in the west, sandstone and sand through the coast and north underneath and, on a great many blocks, the need to work around coastal salt exposure on one side of the city and cracking clay on the other.

Call 0492 879 796 for a free measure in Sydney and we will walk the job with you before anything is priced.

Site Logistics in Sydney

We work out where the truck parks, where the material lands and where the spoil goes before quoting. On everything from flat river plain to steep sandstone escarpment, that is not a detail.

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

The Timber Fencing Formats We Build

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.

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.

• A capping rail keeps water off the end grain of the palings, which is where rot usually starts.
• H4 treatment is the minimum for anything set in the ground; H3 is for above-ground use only.
• Hardwood holds a fixing better than pine but splits more readily, so pre-drilling near the ends is not optional.
• Palings shrink across their width as they dry, so a fence built tight in winter will show light gaps by February.
• Rails carry the load, so rail size and spacing matter more to a fence staying straight than paling thickness does.

The Faults We See Most Often in Sydney

There is a pattern to timber fencing jobs in Sydney, where the housing is largely the full spread of Sydney housing, from Victorian terrace to new release estate. A whole street tends to reach the same point at the same time.

• Termite and fungal damage found once the palings came off
• A fence that was built without a plinth and has been sitting in wet soil for years
• Posts that snapped at ground level in a southerly
• Rails that have dropped in the middle of a long span

How We Approach a Sydney Job

We set out the whole run first, mark the levels, and agree the approach on site before anything is ordered. Once material is cut for a Sydney job it is committed.

Existing survey marks are worth finding before the first hole goes in. A boundary argument costs far more than an hour spent looking, and around Sydney the older subdivisions do not always agree with the plan.

• Butted paling with exposed rails
• Hardwood paling and capping
• Lapped and capped construction
• Treated pine paling fences
• Galvanised post stirrups on reactive ground
• Feature capping and trim details