Fencing & Walls in Windlesham.

Yes, particularly where a garden borders open land, a paddock or a bridleway rather than a neighbouring property. It suits the semi-rural character of the larger plots here and is far cheaper per metre than close-board over a long boundary run. Where privacy is also wanted we can add hedging or a slatted infill behind the rail rather than switching to solid fencing along the whole length.

Yes. Concrete posts set on a properly consolidated footing are the standard here, because loose sand around a post base gives far more than clay does under lateral load — the kind a long fence run takes from wind. A timber post driven straight into sandy topsoil will lose its line well before the boards it carries have worn out.

Longer than a standard town garden, proportionate to the run length rather than anything unusual about the ground — a boundary that wraps two or three sides of a big rural plot can run well over a hundred metres, against fifteen to twenty for a typical close-board job elsewhere. We measure the actual run at survey and put a day count in writing rather than quoting off a standard job size.

Yes, and the sand actually works in your favour here compared with clay, since water behind the wall face drains away rather than building up pressure against it. The footing still needs to bear on properly compacted ground rather than the looser sand near the surface, which is the part of the job we spend the most time getting right before a single course of brick or block goes up.