Fencing for Gardens, Boundaries and Fields
Most garden and boundary work is closeboard (featherboard) or panel fencing in pressure-treated softwood, which is the standard choice for durability without the cost of hardwood. Post and rail suits a more open boundary where you want a line marked rather than full privacy. Out on smallholdings and the more rural stretches around Mintlaw, a good share of the work is stock and field fencing instead — netting, straining posts and tensioned wire built to actually hold livestock rather than just mark a line.
We'll talk you through which type suits the job rather than defaulting to whatever's quickest to quote — a boundary that needs to keep a dog in is a different spec to one that just needs to look tidy.
Built for the wind
Why Post Depth Matters Here
Fencing on exposed, windy plots — which describes a lot of ground along this coast — fails at the posts before it fails at the panels. A panel fence with posts set shallow or loose in the ground will rack and lean within a couple of winters as gales load up against the full flat surface of each panel. We set posts at least 600mm deep and concrete them in as standard, going deeper on genuinely exposed sites, and we'll say so upfront if a site needs extra bracing rather than pricing it the same as a sheltered garden.
Storm repairs
Fixing What's Already Down
- Post-storm repair work picks up every autumn and winter, often after the same gales that bring trees down
- A handful of failed posts usually means resetting or replacing those sections, not the whole fence line
- We'll say plainly if a repair isn't worth it and a full replacement makes more sense
- Field and stock fencing gets the same straining-post and tensioning approach whether it's new or a repair
Common questions
FAQs
For a standard garden panel fence we set posts at least 600mm into the ground and concrete them in — on exposed sites, or in the looser topsoil you get in some gardens, we'll go deeper. Skimping on post depth is the single biggest reason fences here go over in winter gales rather than the panels themselves failing.
Both, and repairs make up a good share of the work through autumn and winter. Often it's a case of resetting or replacing a handful of posts and panels rather than the whole fence line, which we'll always suggest first if it's a sound option.
Yes — stock netting, straining posts and wire tensioning for paddocks and smallholdings, which is a fair amount of what we do around Mintlaw and the more rural stretches of the areas we cover, alongside standard garden and boundary fencing.
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