How much does closeboard fencing cost per metre in Teesside?

£45 to £70 a metre fitted in 2026, covering posts, rails, featheredge boards, gravel board, capping and clearing the old fence. Height, post type and access decide where in the range you land.

Is closeboard worth the extra over panels?

On exposed or sloping boundaries, usually yes. It lasts roughly twice as long, follows uneven ground without gaps, and damage is repaired board by board rather than a bay at a time.

How long does closeboard fencing last?

Fifteen to twenty years is realistic for pressure treated timber on concreted posts with a gravel board keeping the base dry, longer if it gets a coat of preserver every few years.

Can closeboard follow a sloping garden?

Yes, and that is one of its advantages. The rails rake with the ground and the boards are cut to suit, so there are no gaps under the fence for pets to find.

Closeboard fencing in Teesside

Closeboard fencing in Teesside costs £45 to £70 per metre fitted in 2026. Instead of dropping in ready made panels, the fence is built on site from posts, arris rails and overlapping featheredge boards, which is why it lasts longer and copes better with wind and awkward ground.

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Built on site, board by board

Closeboard is the traditional way of doing it: posts set first, arris rails mortised or bracketed between them, then vertical featheredge boards nailed on with an overlap, finished with a capping rail and a gravel board at the base. Nothing about it is prefabricated, so the fence follows the ground rather than fighting it, and no single failure takes out a whole bay. Break one board and you replace one board.

Why Teesside gardens suit it

Two local reasons. Wind: on the open edges of Ingleby Barwick, Wynyard, Coulby Newham and the top of Guisborough, a solid panel run behaves like a sail and posts snap in the winter gales, while a properly braced closeboard fence with three rails and concreted posts takes the same weather and stays put. Ground: much of the patch runs uneven, and gardens that step down towards a beck or up towards a bank are common. Closeboard rakes with the slope, so you avoid the triangular gaps that panels leave under every bay.

What the metre price covers

Posts: timber or concrete, concreted in at a depth matched to the finished height, spaced closer than the standard bay on exposed runs.
Rails: two on shorter fences, three on anything at 1.8 metres, which is what keeps the boards from bowing.
Featheredge boards: pressure treated, overlapped so the fence stays solid as timber shrinks in a dry summer.
Gravel board and capping: the base protected from wet soil and the top protected from rain sitting on end grain.
Clearance: the old boundary out and away, including buried concrete from previous posts.

Closeboard against panels

It costs more up front. A 20 metre run in closeboard at £45 to £70 a metre lands above the same run in lap panels, and the fitting takes longer because it is carpentry rather than assembly. What you buy is life expectancy, typically fifteen to twenty years against eight to twelve, and repairability that keeps the cost of storm damage tiny. If you plan to be in the house a while, or the boundary has already blown down once, that maths usually falls the same way. The comparison guide puts the numbers next to each other.

Details worth agreeing before work starts

Board overlap and finished height should be written into the quote, along with the treatment used and whether the boards are left to weather silver or coated. Ask what happens where the run passes a tree, a drain or a shared wall, and confirm which side the rails face. Rails inside is the convention, giving the neighbour the smooth face, but on a shared boundary it is worth a conversation before anyone starts nailing.