Stop Framing a £30k Garden with a £20 Fence Panel
You just spent serious money on a flawless porcelain terrace, but you left the rotting pine overlap fence up. Here is why cheap boundaries ruin high-end gardens.
The £20 Eyesore
You drop £30k on a total garden renovation.
You get the flawless porcelain terrace laid perfectly to the millimetre. You get the sharp, rendered blockwork planters built. You wire in the expensive bespoke lighting.
Then you sit back and look at the boundary. You've still got a battered old overlap fence leaning into next door's garden. Half the slats are blown out and it rattles in the wind. It completely kills the look of the new build.
The Frame Matters
Your boundary is the frame for the entire project.
Putting a £20 garden centre fence panel next to a high-end patio makes absolutely no sense. If the boundary looks cheap, the whole job looks cheap. Most people treat fences as just a cheap wooden line to keep the dog in. That is a massive mistake. The boundary is the biggest vertical surface in your entire eyeline. If it looks cheap, the whole patio looks cheap.
Architectural Boundaries
We don't just nail up basic timber panels. We design architectural boundaries.
If you want a modern look, we use horizontal slatted cedar. It gives you privacy but lets the light through, and the timber actually looks like a premium material. If you want zero maintenance, we use dark composite screening that never rots or fades in the sun.
If you want absolute permanence, we ditch the timber altogether. We build solid blockwork walls and heavily render them to match the exact finish of your rear extension.
Don't Cut Corners at the End
Don't spend serious money upgrading your patio just to leave a rotten fence standing to save a few quid at the end of the job.
It will blow down in the next winter storm anyway, and then someone has to drag heavy timber panels and concrete posts across your brand-new porcelain tiles to fix it.
Get the boundaries sorted while the lads are on site. Do the whole job properly.
Stop by the office at 17 Tweedale Road, Bournemouth, or call 07835 390845.
