Bournemouth · Dorset
Fencing in Bournemouth
Getting the material into the garden shapes a Bournemouth fencing job as much as the fence does, since plenty of rear gardens are foot access only.
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Getting panels, posts and concrete to the boundary
Plenty of Bournemouth back gardens cannot be reached by vehicle. The older housing around Westbourne and Boscombe, and the mixed late-Victorian, Edwardian and interwar streets through Winton, tend to be built in unbroken rows, so the only way to the rear is a side passage, a shared alley or the house itself. That decides the method. Panels and posts go in one at a time, ballast and cement arrive in bags rather than loose, floors get covered on the way through, and the old fence comes back out the way the new one went in. A garden dropping towards a chine is harder again, since the route in is a bank rather than a passage.
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Plot shape, boundary length and the neighbour's side
A small Bournemouth garden can still carry a long boundary. The interwar and post-war plots at Kinson and West Howe tend to run long and narrow, so the metres of fence line are out of proportion to the lawn they enclose, and a corner plot adds a flank onto the road as well. Length rather than area is what the price is built from, so the run gets measured. Most of it is shared with somebody, and a run tight against a neighbour's wall can only be built from their side, which is something to agree in advance rather than on the morning.
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A solid boundary in an exposed spot
Wind is why a boundary near the front is built differently from one inland. Gardens on the clifftop roads at Southbourne and Boscombe, and the plots either side of the chine mouths, take the weather off the sea with little in front of them. A boundary in that position is held by what is below the ground rather than by the panel above it, and because loose ground grips a post very little by itself, the hole depth and the concrete around it do the work. Where a chine funnels the wind inland, a boundary a street back from the sea can get as much of it as one on the front. How high that boundary can go is worth putting to BCP Council before the line is agreed.
Covering Bournemouth
We provide fencing & gates throughout Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and the surrounding parts of Dorset. Call 07926 470907 for a free, no-obligation estimate.
How it works
Simple, straightforward process
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Get in touch
Call, message or use the enquiry form. Tell us roughly what you need and we’ll arrange a convenient time to come and look.
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Free estimate
We visit, measure up and talk through the options and materials — then give you a clear estimate, free and with no obligation.
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The work
We agree a date, turn up when we say we will and get on with it, keeping you informed and keeping the site tidy as we go.
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The walk-round
We walk the finished job through with you and leave everything clean. If anything isn’t right, tell us and we’ll put it right.
