Cost of garden fence

guy999

Hi
Fence blew away in wind last week, friend of a friend said he would re do it.
Its about 40ft long, said wont be panels but instead long runs with slates nailed to it, a good one?
Does £400 sound okay or too dear?

littlesos

No idea about the cost of building a fence from scratch, but we are just replacing ours....

9 panels cost £134 (incl delivery charge) which is a length of about 54 feet . My DH is doing it so no labour charge.

Nile

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marky_b_2

The cost of the materials alone excluding delivery would be about £250-£300.
So I would say thats ok.
I am basing this on my own experiance of replacing a panel fence with a 6ft high slated fence with 3 rails for holding the slats and replacing all the posts with 4 inch x 4 inch 1.8 meter posts (fence also needs a lot of screws as well as about 2 bags of post fix to hold the posts after you have dug the old posts out LOL)

jaxxy00

Sounds about right to me. I think from the sounds of it you mean the featheredge boards which are a very good solid fence in my experience. We always choose to have this sort of fencing, although more expensive than panels but longer lasting.

misgrace

If you mean the type of fence with posts and cross members, and the slats nailed to it, then I would defiantely go for it.
My neighbours ordinary panel fence blew down also, and a couple of other neighbours, but our fence stayed intact, didnt budge an inch, and for that alone I would recommend it.
And it does look nicer specially when you have your plants grown against it.:D

guy999

Thanks to all have just asked him to proceed hop he does good job

ictmad

we sell 6x6 fence panels for £16 and 6x4 for £14 so work out how many u need and it will give u a rough idea

poolman

allright

does anyone know of a decent price to supply or fit a fence 6ft fence and posts and about 12 pannels as wind has taken my fence away,hope someone can help.

matt