Teesside fencing FAQs

£60 to £100 per bay for fitted panels, £45 to £70 a metre for closeboard, £90 to £140 a metre for composite, £150 to £400 for a garden gate and from about £80 for a single post repair.

Yes. The boundary gets measured, the price comes back fixed and in writing, and you decide in your own time. No charge and no pressure.

Materials, posts and how they are set, gravel boards, labour, and removal of the old fence including buried concrete. Gates should be listed as their own line.

Almost always the posts and the timber grade. Concreted concrete posts with pressure treated panels cost more than timber posts knocked into clay with dip coated panels, and they last around twice as long.

Eight to twelve years for lap panels, ten to fifteen for featheredge, fifteen to twenty for closeboard, and twenty plus for composite. Gravel boards and concreted posts add years to all of them.

Concrete costs more up front and lets you slide a replacement panel in later without digging. Timber looks warmer and suits shorter, sheltered runs. On exposed boundaries, concrete usually wins.

They are the cheapest life extension available. The board takes the wet soil contact instead of the panel, and replacing one costs a fraction of a panel.

Pressure treated timber does not need immediate treatment, but a coat of preserver every two or three years noticeably extends life, especially on the coastal side of the patch.

Normally two metres under permitted development, dropping to one metre where the boundary adjoins a road used by vehicles or its pavement. Conservation areas, listed buildings and estate covenants can restrict it further.

There is no left or right rule. The title deeds and plan decide it, with T marks showing who maintains a boundary. Check before replacing something you did not put up.

For a shared boundary, in practice yes, and it is much easier agreed in advance. For a fence entirely on your own land you do not, though telling them the dates keeps it civil.

Convention puts the rails and posts on the owner's side, giving the neighbour the flat face. It is a courtesy rather than a law, and hit and miss fencing avoids the argument by looking the same both ways.

A standard garden run of six to ten bays is usually a day, including taking the old one out. Longer runs, heavy groundwork or alley-only access stretch it to two days.

It should, along with the concrete from the old posts. Check disposal is written into the quote rather than assumed.

Yes. Postcrete sets in cold weather and winter is often quieter for lead times. Genuinely frozen or waterlogged ground is the only real blocker.

Yes, either stepped in level bays or raked to follow the ground. Closeboard rakes best; panels and composite are normally stepped with the gap closed by a shaped gravel board.