Need a new fence in Heatherton? Draw your fence line on a map (or type the metres) and get an instant estimate in 2 minutes, no waiting for callbacks, no pushy sales visits. Timber paling fences on hardwood posts set in concrete, supply and install. Your written quote is confirmed at a free, no-obligation on-site measure.
Expanse Fencing installs quality timber paling and privacy fences (picket fences on request) right across Heatherton and Melbourne's south-east. Every job includes treated pine rails and palings, hardwood posts set in concrete and a 5-year structural warranty. You deal with the owner, Pete, from quote to handover.
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Heatherton is home for Expanse Fencing: we are based here, so Heatherton customers get the quickest measure times we can offer. The suburb has a semi-rural history of market gardens and sand extraction, and today it mixes established homes on larger blocks with newer housing. Bigger and irregular blocks mean longer boundaries, sometimes with old rural-style fencing that is ready to be replaced with full-height paling. Heatherton is in the City of Kingston, and we cover the surrounding area closely: Dingley Village, Cheltenham, Moorabbin and Clarinda.
Heatherton sits in Melbourne’s Sandbelt and was mined for sand for decades, and some former extraction sites have since been filled and turned into parkland. Natural sand digs easily but holds a post less firmly than clay, and filled ground can vary within a few metres, so we check the footing conditions along the whole line at the measure and set every hardwood post in concrete.
Much of Heatherton is open space: market gardens, the Kingston Heath and Capital golf clubs, Karkarook Park and recreation reserves. Homes that back onto these get long rear runs with no buildings to break the wind, so post spacing and rail count matter more than on a sheltered suburban boundary. Where the land behind is a club or public land, the owner on the other side is not a private neighbour, so the cost conversation is different.
The Heath estate on the former Kingston Centre grounds was built through the 2000s, and its first fences are now around 15 to 20 years old. Streets built at the same time tend to wear out together, which is a good reason to talk to the neighbours on both sides before one section fails.
Heatherton is in the City of Kingston. Kingston’s fencing permits page says a timber or steel side or rear fence under 2m, set more than 3m back from the front boundary, needs no building permit or report and consent, and a front fence under 1.2m needs neither. Within 9m of a street corner, anything over 1m needs both, and pool and spa fencing always needs a building permit. Parts of Heatherton are zoned for green wedge or open space rather than housing, so look up your lot on VicPlan, and check with council before building anything at the street or over 2m.
Read the council’s own page before you design: City of Kingston fencing information. You can also look up your address, zone and any overlays with a free VicPlan property report. Rules change and every lot is different, so please check with council before you build. We flag height, corner and overlay questions at the on-site measure.
Sharing the cost with your neighbour. Under the Fences Act 1968, owners generally share the cost of a sufficient dividing fence equally, and you start by giving your neighbour a Fencing Notice (our free Fencing Notice generator does this). Where your back fence is shared with another house, the Fences Act 1968 generally splits a sufficient dividing fence equally. If the land behind you is a golf club, a reserve or parkland, the arrangement depends on who owns it, so ask the land manager before assuming they will share the cost.
Heatherton is our home base, so travel is measured in minutes and a free on-site measure here is the easiest one we book. We still ask for 24 hours notice. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Heatherton as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.
We are a local Heatherton business, so measures and installs here involve very little travel. We do not publish a street address, but the free online instant estimate and the booking page work for every Heatherton street, and the measure and written quote are free with no deposit to book.
The Fences Act cost split is designed for neighbouring private owners. When the land behind is a club or public open space, contact the owner or land manager first to confirm the boundary and whether they contribute. We can quote your side either way and note any access limits at the measure.
Not if the posts are set properly. Sand drains well, which is kind to timber, but it grips a post less than clay, so depth and concrete do the work. Hardwood posts set in concrete are our standard, and we check for filled or uneven ground on the line at the measure.
A 2.1m fence goes over the 2m line that Kingston uses for side and rear fences, so it normally needs a building permit and council report and consent. Our 1.8m and 2.0m paling fences sit within that line. Check with council for your lot, and we flag the permit step at the measure before anything is ordered.
Treated pine rails and palings on hardwood posts set in concrete. 1.8m, 2.0m or 2.1m high. Built to last 15 to 20 years.
Tall 2.1m treated pine for maximum privacy and noise reduction, keep the yard yours.
Lapped and capped finishes, plus classic timber picket fences on request, to lift your street appeal.