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

Sandringham is a coastal Bayside suburb where the bay is never far away, and that affects how a fence should be built. Wind off the water and salt air are harder on timber than in the eastern suburbs, so concrete-set posts at sensible spacing and a stain or paint finish once the timber has dried are worth it here. Housing ranges from interwar and post-war homes to larger contemporary rebuilds, and privacy between close neighbours is the usual brief: 1.8m to 2.1m paling or lapped and capped. We also cover Black Rock, Hampton and Highett.

Common fence issues in Sandringham

Fence rules in Sandringham (Bayside City Council)

Sandringham is in Bayside City Council. Council’s fences page says the regulations apply to privacy screens and trellis on an existing fence as well as the fence itself, and that a building permit may be needed if a fence is over 2m, higher than average, or blocks essential sight lines. Some Sandringham streets sit under heritage or neighbourhood character controls that mainly affect front fences. Check your address on Bayside’s myLot tool or VicPlan, and confirm with council before ordering a front or corner fence.

Read the council’s own page before you design: Bayside City Council 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). A sufficient dividing fence is generally a shared cost under the Fences Act 1968. If you want something beyond that, such as extra height for a rebuild or a stepped design on a slope, the extra cost is usually yours unless your neighbour agrees to share it.

The fences we usually replace in Sandringham

Sandringham has a long building history around the village and the bay, with Victorian, Edwardian and interwar homes on the older streets and post-war houses and modern rebuilds throughout. The older homes often have hardwood paling side fences that have been patched for years, and front fences in brick, render or timber pickets that suit the period. Post-war blocks typically have paling fences in their second generation. On the sloping streets that fall toward the bay, older fences were often built without stepping, so the line sags or the gap under the palings grows down the hill. Close to the foreshore, salt and wind age bare timber noticeably faster.

Getting to Sandringham from Heatherton

Sandringham is roughly 13 km from our Heatherton base, about a 20 to 25 minute drive depending on traffic. Measures need 24 hours notice. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Sandringham as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.

In Sandringham, 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.

Sandringham fencing questions

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