Garden fencing aesthetics!

conradmum

We're planning on replacing our garden fence with concrete posts and gravel boards with slot-in fence panels as a long-lasting and durable fence. However, our neighbours' fence is overlap panels so one side of the garden will look different from the other.

I'm concerned that when it comes time to sell the house this might put off potential buyers, that the fences don't 'match'. Also the downside of having such a permanent solution is that concrete posts will be hard to shift if a new owner wanted to change the style, and that this might also put people off.

I'd be grateful for anyone's opinion on this.

ormus

dont worry. itll be a very sad person who turns a house purchase down cause the fences dont match.

27col

I think that you are just looking for something to worry about. There is no way that you can anticipate what might be in the mind of a potential buyer. But they will have far more to concern them than the fact that the fences do not match. They probably would not even notice.

Welsh_Totster

Put it this way, I would be more worried as a potential buyer if the fence was rotting or fallen down than if it wasn't the same on one side than the other! The house we are hoping to move into later this month as a beech hedge one side and a short wall and fencing on the other with a tall wall on the back boundary. It didn't even cross my mind when we viewed the place as long as the boundaries are in good condition, to me that's all that matters. I'd say go for it!

conradmum

Thanks all. I think I'm overthinking things as usual.:rolleyes:

SailorSam

If any potential buyer didn't like the fence they could get perennial shrubs from the £shop that would grow enough in a year or two, so is easily sorted.

wallbash

We're planning on replacing our garden fence with concrete posts and gravel boards

Good idea , but i'm not a fan of slot-in fence panels'
Did you think of using feather edge ??

Atelier

You didn't say whether you were thinking of using the full length concrete posts but if so then have a think about concrete "godfathers".

These are short posts that are concreted into the ground and you then use coach bolts to screw the wooden fence posts to them. The advantage is that you limit rotting because the post is not sat in the ground and they only come up a couple of feet.

We used them over ten years ago and have never had a problem with fencing falling down or rotting. Also if you paint then with the same paint at the panels then they disappear.

HTH

27col

Concrete Godfathers are also known as concrete spurs.