Fences

Birds perching onthe top of balustrades and guardrails can be a real nuisance. At the very least you can get bird poop all over the place. If there are parrots around I have known them to start chewing the wood….
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Sometimes I think that Australians go overboard with fences. It seems to me that fences have to be solid and large. Too often I walk down a street and can’t see the houses for the large brick fences. Well there…
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So you have just moved in your new house, and there are a lot of blank fence panels. Perhaps a few plants in a vertical garden would break up the view. Perhaps you haven’t got much money after paying for…
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The last time we built we felt the new Colorbond fences would be fine to keep the dogs in. After all they had never tried to escape at the two previous houses. How wrong we were! Our Kelpie Labrador cross…
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I saw this intersting looking fence the other day. As you will be able to see from this second photo its made with short sections of pipe.

The Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria (DSCV) has revealed the consistent No 1 dispute has been fencing. In fact fencing counts for around one third of all of their top ten disputes. In 2013-4 there were fence 6,489 disputes, slightly above the long term…
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