What does fencing cost in Teesside?
Fencing in Teesside costs £60 to £100 per bay for fitted panels in 2026, £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. Height, post type, ground conditions and access decide where a job lands.
The 2026 figures
Fencing prices are easier to sanity check than most trades, because the units are simple: bays for panels, metres for everything built on site.
| Job | Typical price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lap panels, 1.8m high | £60 to £80 per bay | Budget end, sheltered plots |
| Featheredge or heavy duty panels | £80 to £100 per bay | Better in wind, longer life |
| Closeboard, built on site | £45 to £70 per metre | Three rails at full height |
| Composite boards | £90 to £140 per metre | Aluminium posts, no upkeep |
| Concrete gravel board | £18 to £30 each | Per bay, adds years to timber |
| Single post repair | from £80 | Cheaper each when several |
| Garden gate, fitted | £150 to £400 | Width and material decide |
| Commercial or security run | quoted per job | Measured on site |
A worked example
Take a common Teesside job: a rear boundary of 22 metres, twelve bays, on a 1970s semi in Thornaby with a shared alley for access. In lap panels with timber posts and timber gravel boards you are looking at roughly £750 to £950 all in, including clearance of the old fence. Swap to concrete posts and concrete gravel boards and it moves to around £1,100 to £1,300, but the next panel replacement becomes a fifteen minute job with no digging. Build the same run in closeboard and you are at roughly £1,100 to £1,500, with a fence that should see out two panel runs. Composite on the same 22 metres lands at £2,000 to £3,000, and only makes sense on the twenty year view.
What moves a quote
- Height: the jump from 1.2m to 1.8m adds material and deeper posts. It is the single biggest lever on a per bay price.
- Posts: timber is cheapest, concrete costs more and lasts longest, aluminium comes with composite systems. Post depth and whether they are concreted is where cheap quotes cut corners.
- Ground: clay digs slow, old concrete bases have to come out, tree roots force post positions to move, and a run along a wall may need bolt down shoes.
- Access: a front garden you can back a van up to is cheaper than a rear boundary reached down a terraced alley in Middlesbrough or Hartlepool with everything carried by hand.
- Disposal: old panels, rotten posts and lumps of concrete cost money to tip. If a quote is notably cheap, check that clearance is in it.
- Slopes: stepping or raking a run uses longer posts and more labour, common on the banks around Guisborough, Saltburn and the Eston side.
Where money gets wasted
Buying the cheapest panel and paying to fit it twice is the classic. Untreated or dip coated timber straight onto wet clay follows close behind. So does skipping gravel boards to save £25 a bay and then replacing panels that have rotted from the bottom up. And at the other end, over specifying: composite on a short, sheltered boundary you plan to move away from in three years is money you will not see again.
How to compare quotes fairly
Get every price against the same written specification: height, panel or board type, post material and depth, gravel board, clearance and any gates. Two numbers for a fence mean nothing until you know whether both include concreted posts. The panel comparison guide helps you fix the specification first, and the panel and closeboard pages set out what should be in each price.