Fences & Boundaries

The fence that taught me the most about wind was a solid-paled boundary fence in Island Bay, 1.8 metres high, built to a good standard with treated posts set in concrete. It went over in one piece, three panels at once, in a northerly that did not do any visible damage to the house next […]

A fencing contractor I know and I pulled out a line of six-year-old posts in Claudelands a while back, and every one of them had rotted off at exactly the same point: right where the post met the ground, in a band maybe 100 mm wide. Above that band the timber was sound. Below it,

Two neighbours in Riccarton spent the better part of a year arguing about a leaning wooden fence before either of them looked up what the law actually says. One wanted a new 1.8 metre paling fence, the other was happy with the existing wire and post arrangement, and both assumed the other side simply had

The fence had been up four months when a southerly gale rolling in off Cook Strait put six panels flat across a driveway in Miramar. The posts themselves were sound; they’d simply been set 450 millimetres into the clay with a bag of concrete apiece, which is about right for a sheltered Kelburn backyard and