Fencing in St Bees

Around St Bees (CA27) it is mostly closeboard boundaries built for exposure, gates, hedge cutting and holiday-let garden upkeep. St Bees sits open to the sea, and that changes the specification rather than just the price: concrete posts instead of timber, gravel boards keeping the bottom of the run out of the wet, posts dug deeper on an exposed line and galvanised ironmongery that will not seize up in salt air within two winters. 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. St Bees 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. St Bees is about as exposed as a garden gets round here, and it is the place where the difference between a panel and a closeboard run shows up fastest. We are based in Whitehaven and cover West Cumbria as normal territory rather than as a favour, so St Bees 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.

A great deal, and it is the main reason we will sometimes talk you out of what you asked for. Gardens around St Bees take wind straight off the water, and a solid fence in that position is effectively a sail. Posts go deeper and in more concrete, spacing gets tightened, gravel boards go under every run so nothing timber touches wet ground, and the hinges, latches and fixings are galvanised because salt air eats cheap ironmongery inside two winters. It is also why closeboard beats panels on an exposed boundary: a panel lifts out of its slot in a gale, a closeboard run built in place has nothing to lift.

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 St Bees, 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 St Bees 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.