Fencing in Keswick

Around Keswick (CA12) it is mostly garden fencing and gates in keeping with the setting, hedge cutting and holiday-let garden rounds. Keswick is in or on the edge of the Lake District National Park, where what a boundary looks like carries more weight than usual, permitted heights can be tighter than the general rule, and a plain timber fence in the right style sits better than anything decorative. 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. Keswick is about 30 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. Keswick is inside the National Park, so what a fence looks like matters more there than almost anywhere else we work. We are based in Whitehaven and cover West Cumbria as normal territory rather than as a favour, so Keswick 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.

Yes, and mainly in what the fence is allowed to be. Keswick sits in or on the edge of the National Park, where permitted heights can be tighter than the usual two metres and a boundary facing a road or an open view is looked at more carefully. Plain treated timber, post and rail or a simple closeboard run tends to be both the right answer and the one that gets accepted, and anything ornate looks wrong there anyway. Gardens also run into farmland more often, so a boundary is frequently part garden fence and part stock fence.

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 Keswick, 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 Keswick 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.