Fencing in Talgarth
Close board fencing
Close board belongs close to a Talgarth house, around a patio, a bin store or a kitchen garden, where you want shelter from the mountain wind and privacy from a lane or footpath.
Fencing around Talgarth is a different job from fencing a town garden. The small market town sits at the foot of the Black Mountains on the edge of the Bannau Brycheiniog, and many of the homes around it are cottages, farmhouses and converted buildings with gardens that run into paddocks, orchards and fields. A boundary here can be a few hundred yards long, cross a stream, follow an old hedge line and need to keep sheep out rather than keep the neighbours from looking in.
Tony and the team travel up from Pontypool to put up fencing and gates for rural properties in and around Talgarth. We plan the work so a single visit gets as much done as possible, and quotes and advice are free. For garden design, paving and lawns around a country home, see our landscaping page for Talgarth, or tell us about the property.
Our six kinds of fencing work, and where each one earns its place on a country property rather than a town plot.
Close board belongs close to a Talgarth house, around a patio, a bin store or a kitchen garden, where you want shelter from the mountain wind and privacy from a lane or footpath.
Panels suit smaller cottage gardens in Talgarth itself, where a neat, quick boundary between neighbours makes more sense than a long rural fence.
Picket, trellis and slatted styles fit the character of a cottage garden in Talgarth, marking the edge of a flower border or a front garden without hiding the view of the hills.
Field gates, pedestrian gates and entrance gates are a big part of rural fencing near Talgarth, hung on heavy posts so they swing true across uneven ground and survive being used by vehicles and animals.
Post and rail, and stock fencing where animals need keeping in or out, are the usual answer for the long paddock and field edges that surround many Talgarth properties.
Rural fences near Talgarth tend to fail a section at a time, where a post has rotted in a wet dip or a tree has come down, so replacing the damaged stretch is often all that is needed.
Walk the edge of a typical property outside Talgarth and the boundary changes every few yards. A solid screen makes sense by the house, where you sit out and where wind off the hill hits hardest. Further out, round the paddock or orchard, a solid fence would look out of place, cost far more than it needs to and catch the wind like a sail. There, post and rail or stock fencing does the job and keeps the open feel.
So we walk the whole line with you and suggest a style for each stretch. Our guide to stock fencing and boundary fencing around Talgarth goes into the options in more depth, and close board, panel or slatted fencing compares the solid styles for the area around the house.
Talgarth gets the full weight of the weather coming off the mountains: heavy rain, hard frosts and gusts that funnel down the slopes. Posts need to go in deep, and in wet ground we pay attention to where water collects, because a post standing in a waterlogged dip is where a rural fence usually fails first.
For solid fences on exposed ground, concrete posts or a design that lets some wind through will usually last longer. Which garden fence stands up best to Welsh wind explains why, and concrete posts or timber posts covers the choice of post.
We think about the whole boundary, not just the next panel.
Screens by the house, post and rail round the fields: we suggest what each stretch actually needs.
Heavy hanging posts and careful setting-out so field gates and garden gates still close properly after a wet winter.
We group rural work together and check access in advance so the trip up from Pontypool is used well.
Many Talgarth boundaries already have a hedge, and a new fence is often going in to back it up or fill a gap. We set the line so the hedge still has room to grow, and if it needs cutting back first, our tree surgery and hedge care in Talgarth can deal with it. Hedge work is best planned outside the bird nesting season, and some old rural hedgerows are protected, so check with Powys County Council or the national park authority before removing one.
Properties inside the national park may also face extra planning rules for new boundaries and gates, particularly near a road. We are landscapers, not planners, so it is always worth asking the park authority before you commit.
Because Talgarth is further from our base than the valley towns, we like to plan the fencing and any related work together. A new field gate can go in on the visit that replaces the paddock fence, and a garden clearance, a stone gateway or new turf can be booked alongside. Materials are ordered in one delivery, and long lengths of rail and posts need proper vehicle access, so we check the lane and the gateway before the day.
If the edges of the property have become overgrown, garden clearance in Talgarth can open up the line before the fence goes in.
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Local and practical guides to help you plan the work.
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Yes. Post and rail is one of the most common fences we build for paddocks, orchards and larger gardens around Talgarth, and it can be combined with stock netting where animals need keeping in or out.
Yes. We hang field gates, pedestrian gates and garden gates on heavy posts set deep in concrete, and line them up so they swing freely over uneven ground. Choosing and fitting a garden gate covers the basics.
Many rural fences do not need planning permission, but the national park, fences beside a road, listed buildings and the removal of some old hedgerows can bring extra rules. Check with Powys County Council or the park authority before starting.
Length is the big one, followed by the style of each stretch, the posts, the number of gates, the ground, vehicle access and whether an old fence or hedge needs clearing first. We walk the boundary and give you a free quote.
Give us a rough idea of the length of boundary, what it needs to keep in or out and any gates you want. We will plan a visit.