Colorbond and timber fences for salt air, sand and the southerly, from a fencer based on the Bellarine.
Drysdale Fencing installs coastal-rated Colorbond and timber paling fencing across Barwon Heads, with corrosion-resistant fixings and deeper poured-concrete footings for sandy coastal soil and exposed southerly winds. Supply, install and storm-damage repairs. Free on-site quotes — 0485 577 980.
Fencing in Barwon Heads is not the same trade it is a few suburbs back from the water. You've got weathered beach shacks down near the river and the bluff sitting alongside newer estate homes that have crept inland from the village, and the one thing every block shares is the salt. It comes in off the ocean year-round, and it's the first thing we think about — long before the first post hole. A fence can look spot-on the day we pack up and still be a write-off in two or three seasons if the fixings underneath it have started to rust.
So we don't fit the standard inland gear out here. Salt eats into untreated and thinly-coated metal fast, which is why we run coastal-rated Colorbond and corrosion-resistant fixings as the default. Then there's the sand. Loose, free-draining coastal soil doesn't clamp onto a post the way heavy clay will, so footings have to go deeper and the concrete has to be poured properly, or the fence starts to lean inside a few years. On timber jobs the posts are hardwood, set deep in concrete, and the palings are treated, because damp coastal ground finds any weakness at the base of a fence.
Wind is the last piece, and on a lot of Barwon Heads blocks it's the loudest one. Plenty of these positions are wide open and cop a southerly head-on. Build a fence too light on a block like that and you've essentially put up a sail; the first proper blow finds the weak footing. So the posts, rails and footings get sized to the run in front of us, and an exposed corner block gets more of all three than a sheltered one. Fresh estate block, a tired paling fence in the village that's had its day, storm damage along an exposed boundary — we supply and install coastal-rated Colorbond and treated timber palings, and we take on repairs right across Barwon Heads.
Colorbond first, timber where the look calls for it, and repairs when salt or a storm gets ahead of a fence.
Coastal-rated Colorbond, the grade made to last in salt air rather than rust out early in it. Nothing to paint or stain, and we set the post spacing for how exposed your block is. The colours run wide enough to sit right beside an old village cottage or a brand-new estate build.
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Timber palings on hardwood posts, done the way coastal ground demands: treated timber, posts set good and deep, and footings poured properly. That matters more here than most places, because loose sand won't hold a shallow post for long. It's a warmer fence, and it sits well in the older village streets.
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Storm damage, rust that's chewed through the fixings, a post that's slowly tipped over in the sand, or just an old fence that's run out of years — we have a proper look and fix what actually needs fixing. If patching your boundary will get you another good stretch out of it, that's what we'll tell you. We won't talk you into a full replacement you don't need.
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