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Expanse Fencing installs quality timber paling and privacy fences (picket fences on request) right across Parkdale 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 Parkdale: what to know

Parkdale, in the City of Kingston, is a quiet bayside suburb between Mentone and Mordialloc, with many post-war homes on good-sized blocks and a growing number of units and townhouses behind them. Original fences on those post-war blocks are often well past their 15 to 20 year life, and replacing the back and side boundaries in one go is often the simplest way to do it. Near the foreshore, wind and salt air are real, so concrete footings and a protective finish on new timber matter. Parkdale is a short drive from our Heatherton base.

Common fence issues in Parkdale

Fence rules in Parkdale (City of Kingston)

Parkdale is in the City of Kingston. Kingston’s 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 also has Special Building Overlays for overland flow in parts of the municipality, and on land subject to flooding Melbourne Water may need to be involved, so check your property on VicPlan and confirm with council before you build.

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). On subdivided Parkdale blocks, one original side fence can border two or three properties. Each owner pays toward the section that adjoins their land under the usual Fences Act split, and where a fence sits on common property the owners corporation decides.

The fences we usually replace in Parkdale

Parkdale is mostly post-war and 1960s to 1970s housing, with rear units added behind many of the original homes since. The fences we see most are paling side and rear boundaries that have already been replaced once and are now 20 to 40 years old, with leaning lines where the posts have rotted at ground level. Where a rear unit was built, the side fence often changes halfway along: an older section beside the front house and a newer section beside the unit, sometimes at different heights. On the streets nearer Beach Road, salt air and wind wear the timber faster, and we often find palings split and greyed well ahead of fences further inland.

Getting to Parkdale from Heatherton

Parkdale is roughly 6 km from our Heatherton base, down toward the bay between Mentone and Mordialloc, so it is an easy area for us to schedule. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Parkdale as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.

In Parkdale, 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.

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