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Fencing where the suburb meets the bush

Fletcher, Minmi, Maryland and Cameron Park are Newcastle's western growth edge, new estates on one side, Sugarloaf and Blue Gum Hills bushland on the other. Out here a fence answers two questions: a full new perimeter, and what happens when your back boundary faces the bush.

A new charcoal Colorbond perimeter fence stepping down a slope on a freshly built Fletcher home, eucalypt bushland behind

Fletcher · Minmi · Maryland · Cameron Park

New house, whole new perimeter

A fresh build on a new-estate lot arrives with no fence at all, every boundary is a clean slate, and often the neighbours are building at the same time. That's a full perimeter: side and rear runs, a front treatment that works with the streetscape, and gates for side access and the driveway.

  • Colorbond boundary runs, the fast, tidy, colour-matched default for a new-estate perimeter.
  • Fresh estate blocks often fall away or step, so runs are stepped or raked to follow the ground rather than leaving gaps under a level run.
  • Where a new fence also has to hold back a bit of soil on a cut-and-fill block, we'll flag it, retaining over a certain height moves into engineering and council territory.
  • Building at the same time as next door? A shared boundary quote gives both of you a clear figure.
A fencer setting a steel post in wet concrete along a Newcastle boundary, the harbour in the distance

Bush-fringe blocks · BAL

When your boundary backs bushland

The blocks backing onto Sugarloaf State Conservation Area and Blue Gum Hills sit on bushfire-prone land, and that changes the fence. On a BAL-rated boundary, untreated timber can be the wrong call, the sound choice is non-combustible steel, factory-coloured, that won't feed a fire along your back fence.

Colorbond steel suits these boundaries well, and we build the run to the bushfire spec for your block rather than guessing at it. We won't rate your block for you, that's a BAL assessment, but we'll build to what it calls for and talk you through why the material matters here.

non-combustible steelBAL specfactory-coloured
New build or bush block? Either way it starts with a measure. We'll walk the perimeter, check the fall and the access, look at what the back boundary faces, and give you a fixed written quote for the whole job.
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