Fencing in Lucknow.

A heritage village with a mining past.

Lucknow grew up around the Wentworth and other goldmines, and the old workings, mullock heaps and heritage cottages still shape the place. That history matters for fencing in two ways. First, the ground can be variable: old mine spoil, disturbed fill and pockets of rock sit alongside the region’s usual basalt clay, so we check what we are digging into before we set posts. Second, several Lucknow cottages are heritage-sensitive, so for a front fence we look at the streetscape and the Orange City Council controls and steer toward a sympathetic timber picket or paling rather than something that fights the period look.

Frost on the highway flats.

Sitting in the same cold-climate band as Orange proper, Lucknow cops hard frosts through winter, and the low flats along the creek lines hold the cold. As everywhere around the 2800 region, the make-or-break for a fence is the footing, so we concrete posts below the frost-affected zone and step up the footing on the reactive clay. That is what keeps a Colorbond boundary in a Lucknow backyard standing dead straight through every winter rather than leaning by year three.

Typical Lucknow jobs.

• 1.8m Colorbond backyard and side boundaries on village blocks
• Heritage-sympathetic timber picket and paling front fences
• Post-and-rail and plain-wire on the rural-residential blocks
• Driveway gates, manual and automated
• Replacement of old leaning timber fences with frost-proof Colorbond

Sharing the cost with your neighbour.

A boundary fence in Lucknow is normally a shared cost under the NSW Dividing Fences Act 1991. We give you a written quote you can attach to a Fencing Notice for the adjoining owner, which is the proper first step before any cost-sharing conversation. See indicative rates on our pricing page.