£1300 for fencing

loulou41

My friend got a quote to fence her garden approx. 30 ft with close board 5ft 6 ins height and matching gate. They have to work round some neighbour's trees. She is in greater London. She got a quote from a bigger local company for £300 less. She wants to go with the smaller firm £1300 as he came to measure and will do the fences, he said it wlli take 1 day and a half. The other big company, she is not sure who she will get to put the fences and they will take 1 day. She wants to go with the small company as they are landscape gardeners as well and she might need their services and she likes the idea that the man who quoted will do the job himself but I think for an extra £300 is too much. I would like to think what other people think? Thanks

john.h

Im glad i don't live down south.. i have just had delivered all the materials for a 70 foot long fence. Posts, rails, 6x1 boards and 20 bags of postcrete (£500) So for your fence its costing around £1000 for a day and a half work....

john...

Annie1960

it's up to your friend who she chooses to erect her fence, and how much she wants to pay.

roneik

John That is cheap the post Crete alone is £6 x 25kilo a bag from builders merchant £120 , posts ten foot apart , cheapest I see for 3inch posts is about £12 each =£84\then the rails and boards . He must be doing it for something to fill his day . Cant be making much more than £5o a day and that's sourcing cheap wood. Two fences came down in gusts this spring, so having done them myself I have good idea of material costs.

john.h

Posts 100x100 @ 2.4m £7.20+vat, Its not post crete i got, is a different make £3.82 each. It was £500 for the materials, I'm putting it up myself. Posts will be at 1800 centres
You can get oak 75x75 fenceposts for £8 + vat.. If i was spending £1300 on a 30ft fence i would be wanting cedar

John...

loulou41

How much do you think good quality materials for the fences will cost John? The closeboard panels will be built in situ. Thanks

john.h

It all depends what you want, Red Cedar http://www.silvatimber.co.uk/fencing.html
Oak, https://www.uk-oak.co.uk/product-catalogue/oak_fencing
or just cheap treated https://www.jtdove.co.uk
I am putting the green treated fencing on the external side of my fence, on the inside (my garden) I'm putting western red cedar slatted screens.
john...

john.h

I have just priced up a fence from jtdoves, this is for posts at 1.8m centres
6, 100x100x2.4m posts £43.20
12, post fix £45.84
9, rails 38x75x3.6m £27.90
60, 19x150x1.8m boards £93
3 fence cappings £19.44
£229.38 + VAT + Delivery
Then stick on a box of Paslode 51mm galv ring shanks about £24

john...

southcoastrgi

loulou41 wrote: »

The closeboard panels will be built in situ

closeboard is always built in situ, it doesn't come in panels

loulou41

I have got close boards 6ft by 6ft. They are the standard ones and they were slot in between concrete posts. Are there two types of close boards.

southcoastrgi

fence panel



close board (which is too heavy to lift & fit if made up)