Hardwood posts, treated palings, professional install.
Timber paling fences are the most popular boundary fence in Australia. EasyFixed installs new timber paling fences with hardwood posts, exposure-grade palings and proper concrete footings. Use the calculator to price your job in under a minute.
What goes into a timber paling fence
A paling fence is only as good as the posts holding it up. We set hardwood or galvanised steel posts in concrete at standard 2.4 metre centres, then run two or three rails depending on the height, and fix treated pine palings to the rails.
Heights are quoted at 0.9m, 1.5m, 1.8m, 2.1m and 2.4m. The standard boundary fence in Melbourne is 1.8m. Anything taller usually needs three rails, and some councils want a permit above 2.0m.
Optional extras that change the price are lattice or slat toppers for extra height, capping along the top to protect the paling ends, and a plinth board at the bottom to keep soil and mulch off the palings.
Hardwood posts or steel posts
Hardwood posts look traditional and are the standard choice. They are cheaper up front and easy to fix rails to, but the section at ground level is where rot eventually starts.
Galvanised steel posts cost a bit more and outlast the timber around them. On a fence you intend to keep for twenty years, steel posts are usually the better spend, and they are the fix we recommend when we are replacing failed timber posts one at a time.
The calculator prices both, and the what's included list updates to match whichever you choose.
How the job runs
You price the fence online, book with us, and our tradie contacts you within 24 hours to confirm access, the exact line and any complications like tree roots, services or a slope.
On the day, old fencing comes out if you have added removal, the post holes go in, posts are concreted and left to set, then rails and palings go on. Most standard residential runs are done in a day or two.
We take leftover concrete and offcuts away. Excavated soil stays on site.
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