Fencing in Distington

Around Distington (CA14) it is mostly closeboard and panel fencing, gates and grass and hedge rounds. Distington is mostly terraces and estate housing with straight, regular garden boundaries, which makes fencing there predictable to price and quick to build, and a lot of the work is replacing runs that went in with the houses and have finally given up at ground level. Which of those is right for your garden comes out of somebody standing in it rather than a phone call, because the ground and the exposure decide most of it.

No, it is in the price. Distington is about 6 km from us in Whitehaven, well inside the patch we work as a matter of course, and the van goes to the job rather than the job paying for the distance. The only time distance genuinely matters is a very small one-off a long way out, and if that ever changed a price you would be told before the quote rather than after.

Yes. Distington is on the road between Whitehaven and Workington, so it gets called at on the way past more than most places. We are based in Whitehaven and cover West Cumbria as normal territory rather than as a favour, so Distington is a regular stop. If we are booked up and cannot start when you need it, you will get told that rather than being left on a maybe.

It makes the job more predictable. Boundaries around Distington are mostly straight runs between terraces and estate houses, built to the same pattern, so we know roughly what the ground is, how many posts a garden takes and what the old fence will be sitting on before we arrive. That means the quote is the price rather than a starting point. The common find is that the original posts were timber straight into the soil, which is why they have gone at ground level, and concrete posts on the replacement fix that for good.

We can usually get out to look within a week, and often sooner. Starting depends on the size of the job and what is already booked: a gate, a few panels or a repair can normally be slotted in within a couple of weeks, while a full boundary run in the busy part of the season is more like three to five. Garden work on a regular round can usually start on the next visit. You get honest dates rather than optimistic ones.

Yes, and there is nothing attached to it. Somebody comes out to Distington, measures the run, looks at the ground and the access, and you get a price for the work with what is included spelled out. Nothing is chargeable until you have read that and said yes.

Yes, and a lot of people in Distington use us for both. It is one number for the boundary and for the hedge, the grass and the borders behind it, which saves booking two lots of people and means whoever is cutting the hedge is not the one who has to work round somebody else's new fence. Plenty of our regular garden rounds started as a fencing job.