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Your Guide to Timber Fencing
Timber is a popular choice when building a fence. It provides a functional, private, and secure boundary for your property, is aesthetically pleasing, and easily customised to suit your requirements. Although it is a cost-effective option, it does require ongoing maintenance with regular cleaning, painting, and staining.
PlaceMakers offers a variety of timber fence products, from the basic rough sawn posts and palings to more premium options, such as Primewood, laminated, and picket fences, along with decorative trellis.
Standard Timber Fencing
A budget-friendly option for the ever-popular post-and-paling fence. Aesthetically pleasing and easily customised, our posts and palings are available in a variety of sizes.
Premium Timber Fencing
If aesthetic is important to you, and you would prefer a fence with a smoother finish, consider a Primewood or laminated timber fence. These premium alternatives have been engineered to produce a stronger and more durable product.
Decorative Fencing
Decorative fencing include picket and trellis fencing used to offer a lighter, airier alternative to traditional fences. Perfect for character homes or adding features to your garden and landscape.
Timber Gates
PlaceMakers have a range of timber gates in styles that will complement modern and traditional, horizontal and vertical, short and tall fences.
Timber Fencing Inspiration
Types of Timber Fencing
Standard Timber Fencing
About Standard Timber Fence
Your budget friendly fencing material, rough sawn timber, has been cut with a saw but has not been sanded or planed afterwards, giving it an inconsistent surface with a fuzzy texture.
Timber Fence Design Variations
A basic paling fence is built with posts, rails, and palings. There are plenty of options for design variations such as:
- Alternating the palings on either side of the rails, so there is no definitive front or back of the fence
- A board and batten style fence, made with alternating the size of the palings
- Adding a capping rails or decorative post caps
Rough Sawn Fence Posts and Palings Specifications
CCA treated New Zealand radiata pine
- H4 treated fence posts are suitable for in-ground use
- H3.2 treated fence palings are suitable for exposed above-ground applications
Fence paling sizes
- 100 x 25mm
- 150 x 12mm *available in Christchurch only
- 150 x 19mm
- Lengths available: 1.2M, 1.5M, 1.8M, 2.4M
Fence post sizes:
- 100 x 75mm
- 100 x 100mm
- Lengths available: 1.8M, 2.4M, 2.7M, 3M
Premium Timber Fencing
Primewood Fencing
A premium fencing material, Primewood palings having been machine gauged to provide a smooth finish to the timber. This process achieves a classic, traditional looking fence with a contemporary, smooth finish.
Primewood fence palings and rails have been pre-primed with an oil-based primer, and the manufacturer recommends the paint finishing be completed with two exterior topcoats once installed.
Primewood fencing range and specifications:
Primewood palings and rails are available H3.1 treated and pre-primed for above-ground outdoor applications.
Palings
- Tongue and groove or shiplap profiles
- 140 x 18mm
- 1.8M lengths
Rails
- Top rail 90 x 42mm
- Middle and bottom rails 90 x 38mm
- 5.4M lengths
Posts
- H5 treated for in-ground outdoor use
- 100 x 100mm
- 2.4M lengths
Laminated Timber Fencing
Laminated timber is engineered by gluing together layers of wood. Typically, three planks are glued together at perpendicular angles to produce a robust, strong product that is resistant to twisting or warping. As a result, you can expect a laminated timber fence to last decades. Laminated timber fences are the same each side, so both neighbours get the good side, and are easy to install.
Choose from a steel framed fence with FenTec’s EasyWall system combined with laminated palings; or a more traditional style timber fence from KLC’s GenLam fencing system that includes laminated posts, rails, and palings.
FenTec EasyWall + Laminated Palings
A slim-profile fence that combines a steel post and rail frame with tongue & groove laminated palings installed either vertically or horizontally.
Vertical specs
- Panel height: 1800mm
- Width: 2250mm
- Posts: 2400mm
- Rails: 2230mm
- Laminated palings: 275 x 1790mm
- Requires 8 planks to complete 1x fence section
Horizontal specs
- Panel height: 1670mm or 1800mm
- Width: 1830mm
- Posts: 2400mm
- Rails: 1800mm
- Laminated palings: 275 x 1790mm
- Requires 6x planks to complete 1x fence section (H1670 x L1830)
- Requires 7x plants to complete 1x fence section (H1800 x 1830)
KLC GenLam Laminated Fencing System
Palings
- H3.2 treated for above-ground outdoor use
- Four profiles: tongue & groove, tongue & groove with v-joint, shiplap, and PRD4S
- 90 x 18mm (1.8M only)
- 135 x 18mm
- Lengths available: 1.8M, 2.1M, 2.4M
Posts
- H4 treated for in-ground outdoor applications
- 88 x 88mm
- 112 x 112mm
- 135 x 135mm
- 180 x 180mm
- Lengths available: 1.8M, 2.1M, 2.4M, 2.7M, 3.0M, 3.6M, 4.2M, 4.8M, 5.4M, 6.0M
Rails and caps
- Top and bottom rails: 90 x 42mm
- Mid rail: 90 x 36mm
- Top cap: 63 x 43mm
- Bottom rail closed: 90 x 40mm
- Bottom rail open: 90 x 42mm
- D4S bead: 40 x 18mm
- All 5.4M in length
Types of Decorative Timber Fencing
Picket Fencing
Picket fences offer security whilst providing plenty of character, charm, and street appeal. With four different styles to choose from, we have a picket fence to suit your home and garden.
- H3.2 treated for above-ground outdoor applications
- Gothic, Colonial, Cape Cod, or Square profiles
- Available natural or pre-primed white
- 68 x 19mm
- Lengths available: 0.9M, 1.0M, 1.2M, 1.5M, 1.8M
Trellis
Add privacy and shade to your outdoor areas with our range of screening and fencing trellis. Available in a variety of pattens, trellis offers a lighter, airier alternative to traditional fences.
Incredibly versatile, trellis can also be combined with palings or blocks to create a trellis-topped fence which gives the best of both worlds.
PlaceMakers trellis is available in four different designs: diagonal, venetian, square, and oriental, with framed and unframed options available.
Standard trellis:
- 600 x 1800mm
- 1800 x 900mm
- 1800 x 1200mm
- 1800 x 1800mm
Framed 45mm
Unframed 24mm
Fencetop options:
- Diagonal and venetian styles
- 300 x 2400mm
- 600 x 2400mm
Heavy framed options:
- 25mm heavy framed:
- Diagonal and square styles
- 1800 x 900mm
- 1800 x 1200mm
- 1800 x 1500mm
- 1800 x 1800mm
- Fencetop: 500 x 2400mm
- 50mm unframed options also available
- 25mm and 50mm refer to the size of the openings
10mm heavy framed:
Oriental long or short (vertical or horizontal)- 1800 x 900mm
- 1800 x 1200mm
- 1800 x 1500mm
- 1800 x 1800mm
Fencetop:
- 300 x 2400mm
- 500 x 2400mm
- 10mm unframed options also available
- 10mm refers to the spacing between slats
Timber Gates
About Timber Panels and Gates
Complete your timber fence with a timber gate. PlaceMakers has a range of styles for both pedestrian and driveway gates to complement your property and meet your design requirements.
Choose from three designs: Homestyle for a modern look with clean lines, Cottage for a classic aesthetic, or Manor fence panels and gates for more character.
- Heights: 1.2, 1.5, 1.8M
- Gate widths: 1.0, 1.5, 3.0M
- Panels available in 2.0M widths
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