Fencing costs

[Chasingsquirrels]

Approx 27m length, 7ft high.
Close featherboard (I think its called?) with wooden posts and gravel boards (suggested x 2 as we are lower than next door, so to retain).
2 gates (4ft and 6ft).

At the moment it is mainly conifer hedge riddled with ivy and a bit of 7fr fencing, plus a bit of chain link on old concrete posts. Plan is that we take out the hedge and the bit of fencing will be reused as part of a hem enclosure.

East of England.

I've had a few people round, either said its too big a job, or just not quoted despite me chasing. Now had a quote from someone a friend recommended which seems on the high side (which I was expecting) but just wondering if anyone in the know who be able to give a price range.

We’ve just had a similar length of the same fence put up as ours was damaged in the storm after Christmas, with a gate. It was £2600 in S Wales. We had some brambles to clear but no conifers or anything to clear and no concrete to dig out, so I would add a few hundred on for that?

We just (this weekend ) had 23 m of 6ft feather fence but with wooden footboards and it was £1220. Also cost about £200 to get the old large conifer hedge taken down.

@Murinae

We just (this weekend ) had 23 m of 6ft feather fence but with wooden footboards and it was £1220. Also cost about £200 to get the old large conifer hedge taken down.

What location-ish?

The bloke I had look at it last year (who didn't get back to me) was saying about about £1k to clear. Plus around £3k for fencing.

The one who has just quoted is just under £4k for fencing and gates only (we will clear it, but I have concerns about this - we'd basically just be chainsaw-ing the conifers off at the bottom, not taking any stumps out etc).

@Nomorescreentime

We’ve just had a similar length of the same fence put up as ours was damaged in the storm after Christmas, with a gate. It was £2600 in S Wales. We had some brambles to clear but no conifers or anything to clear and no concrete to dig out, so I would add a few hundred on for that?

Thanks. I think S Wales would be cheaper than here (Cambridge area) but that's a fair difference.

We are also South Wales

Thanks Murinae

We also didn’t take the stumps out. The fencers managed to fence over them sometimes sawing channels through them. Though no height difference to the neighbours. We also got rid of the conifers ourselves, just had them chainsawed down and cut into log sized pieces and had some other tree work done by the tree surgeon at the same time. We burnt the conifers in the garden.

It took 2.5 days for the fencers to put up the fence which was a lot quicker than the fencers originally thought. We were on a total daily rate of £200 for the two of them and they said it could take up to 6 days depending on the digging through the ground and stumps. Material costs were £720.

I think I'm going to have to try and get some more quotes, that or move to South Wales 😏

I would at least get someone to grind the stumps down be,ow ground level

I know you are wanting feather board but I would really try and avoid having wooden posts as they do rot, despite being tantalised. We just had to replace ours for concrete

We were on a total daily rate of £200 for the two of them

Blimey - this is where the cost variation will be, I'd be expecting to pay twice that in Kent.

We paid £900 for 10m of featherboard fencing, a little bit of clearing/grinding down stumps, and some small related jobs eg fixing a gate.

I don't think 4k is wildly out if the conifers will take a long time to sort. It might well be best to get them down and then ask people to quote? Then they'll be able to estimate more accurately how long it will take.

@SushiGo

We paid £900 for 10m of featherboard fencing, a little bit of clearing/grinding down stumps, and some small related jobs eg fixing a gate.

I don't think 4k is wildly out if the conifers will take a long time to sort. It might well be best to get them down and then ask people to quote? Then they'll be able to estimate more accurately how long it will take.

Yes I have thought that, but that means a much longer period with no boundary and there are both dogs and hens contained in separate parts by the hedge/existing fence.

Next doors garden is a complete mess (unoccupied and utterly overgrown, plus slightly higher than us, plus in part someone once built a rubble retainer which is falling down).
I think I might have to look at someone who can do a whole clearance and fencing together.

@Sunflowergirl1

I would at least get someone to grind the stumps down be,ow ground level

I know you are wanting feather board but I would really try and avoid having wooden posts as they do rot, despite being tantalised. We just had to replace ours for concrete

The other side and back are both wooden posts and really I'm wanting to match it to that. The property is about 20 years old and the last couple of years we have had to replace 4 posts on the opposite side, which have just gone in as an additional post about a foot from the existing. Other than that those fences are fine and I don't want to replace them. Maybe I go for concrete and look at the other side (shared) and back (mine) as they need redoing.