Fencing

ian103

A robust feather edge fence construction would be

4"x4" posts set at 1.8m intervals and concreted 600mm in to ground , fixed with postcrete. Fitted with 3 x 3"x2" rails, 1 x 6"x1" gravel board and clad with 6"feather edge boards. 3"x1" planed capping rail to top of fence.

or a hit and miss fence

Built using 4"x4" posts set at 1.8m intervals and concreted 600mm in to ground , fixed with postcrete. Fitted with 3 x 3"x2" rails, and clad with 6"x1" boards to form vertical hit & miss fence. 3"x1" planed capping rail to top of fence.

force_ten

ey143 wrote: »

Force ten,

When you say courtesy thing - do you mean courtesy for the neighbour to have the good looking side ?

yes as a courtesy to your adjoining neighbours

Fences and boundaries

It is normal practice when using a fence to mark a boundary to place the outer face of the fence along the boundary, so that the posts stand on the land of the of the fence's owner.

There is an enormous variety of styles of fence, and the positionining of the fence relative to the boundary will depend on the style.

with wooden panel fences and close board fences where the panels/boards are wholly contained between the fence posts, it is usual to place the outer face of the posts against the boundary

some close board fences have flat rails attached to the face of the posts and the boards attached to the face of the flat rails: in this case it is usually the outer face of the boards that is placed against the boundary.

as i said there is no law but it is normal practice, and as i said before for me the security of my garden would be the biggest concern of putting the fence the wrong way around

DRP

martinthebandit wrote: »

Being well mannered and a good neighbour perhaps?

I don't know any fences built as you have described, but ours, our neighbours' and at least 2 family members all have their fence as I described. Ours and the neighbours was present when we moved here so it isn't just my family

I still don't understand why it is not well mannered to face your own fence into your own garden

force_ten

Fences, appearance of: Must the smooth side of my neighbour's fence face towards me? My neighbour is in the process of erecting his new fence, and he has started putting it up so that the smooth side faces towards his own house. Is he allowed to do this?

There is no law that says the smooth side of the fence should face the neighbour.

If your neighbour pays for a fence that he erects on his own land (even if he builds the fence so that the outer face of it, as seen from his land, runs along the boundary) then he is entitled to choose the style and colour of the fence, as well as whether he places the smooth side of the fence to face in towards his own house or out to face your house.

as i said there is no law as to the way you erect a fence as long as the fence is fully within your boundary and the posts on the ugly side as you put it dont cross the boundary line onto your neighbours property

2013yearofthehouse

We have the feathers facing us, simply because one neighbour has a shed and therefore there was no access to put them on from their side. I suspect some people also put them on their own side because maybe their neighbours won't agree to access from their side, or perhaps thinking of the future, a new different neighbour may not want you accessing their garden should you need to make a repair for example.

We did speak to all our neighbours and none actually minded which side they had - one lady just said she would prefer that the fencers didn't need access from her garden because of her (rather beautiful) borders being full of flowers that could be trampled, but even she didn't flat out refuse. We didn't know about the flowers before going round (rear neighbour, view completely obscured by fence), but were happy to do it from our side in that case.

Personally, given no outside factors, I would actually have preferred the arris rails our side, for security (and call me crazy, but done neatly I actually think looks-wise it can be more interesting and breaks up the monotony!).

force_ten

the last two quotes that i made were taken from https://www.boundary-problems.co.uk

force_ten

2013yearofthehouse wrote: »

Personally, given no outside factors, I would actually have preferred the arris rails our side, for security (and call me crazy, but done neatly I actually think looks-wise it can be more interesting and breaks up the monotony!).

I 100% agree with this