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Expanse Fencing installs quality timber paling and privacy fences (picket fences on request) right across Mordialloc and Melbourne's south-east. Every job includes treated pine rails and palings, hardwood posts set in concrete and a workmanship warranty. You deal with the owner, Pete, from quote to handover.

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Fencing in Mordialloc: what to know

Mordialloc sits where Mordialloc Creek meets the bay, in the City of Kingston, and it mixes older homes near Main Street with post-war houses and newer townhouses further back. Properties near the creek and the foreshore can see more wind and damp, so we are particular about drainage around posts and solid concrete footings, and we suggest sealing new timber once it has dried. We regularly work across Mordialloc, Parkdale, Aspendale and Braeside, all close to our Heatherton base.

Common fence issues in Mordialloc

Fence rules in Mordialloc (City of Kingston)

Mordialloc is in the City of Kingston. Kingston’s fencing page says a timber or steel side or rear fence under 2m, set back more than 3m from the street, generally does not need a building permit, and front fences under 1.2m generally do not need a permit. Fences over 1m within 9m of a street corner need a building permit and consent. Kingston notes that Melbourne Water is the authority for Land Subject to Inundation Overlays in the municipality and that both Melbourne Water and council have Special Building Overlays, so check VicPlan for your lot and confirm with council before building near the creek or at the street.

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). If your fence backs onto the creek reserve or other public land, the neighbour is a land manager rather than a private owner, so speak to them about the boundary first. Between private homes, the Fences Act 1968 split applies as usual.

The fences we usually replace in Mordialloc

Mordialloc has some of the oldest housing in Kingston near Main Street and the creek, with Edwardian and interwar homes beside post-war brick veneer and newer townhouses. Behind the older homes, side fences are often tired hardwood paling that may have been built off the true boundary decades ago. Most post-war blocks have paling fences in their second generation, now 20 to 40 years old. Townhouse sites add new dividing fences and leave the remaining original fences looking worse by comparison. Near the creek and the bay, damp ground at the base of the posts and salt air on the palings are the two things that shorten a fence’s life, and both show clearly in the fences we replace here.

Getting to Mordialloc from Heatherton

Mordialloc is roughly 7 km from our Heatherton base, straight down toward the bay, and an area we travel to often. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Mordialloc as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.

In Mordialloc, the free on-site measure is usually booked within a few days of your request, with 24 hours notice. The install date is then confirmed in your written quote, and it depends on materials and on the neighbour notice period when the fence is shared.

Mordialloc fencing questions

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