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Recent, finished colorbond and paling runs get shown next to a plain description of how the neighbour side of the job actually gets handled, so it isn't news on the enquiry call.
How we build theseFencing Contractors · Victoria
A dividing fence has two owners. A fencing contractor's quote usually only reaches one of them.
Plenty of fencing work sits entirely on one property (a new colorbond fence around a backyard, a pool enclosure, a full paling replacement nobody next door has any real say over). But a lot of it doesn't. Where a fence sits on a shared boundary, the law makes the neighbour a real party to the job, not a bystander: both owners are liable for a share of the cost, and before work can go ahead by agreement, the customer has to give that neighbour a formal, written notice setting out what's proposed. A fencing contractor rarely ever speaks to that person directly, but the whole job still runs on whether they've been handled correctly.
Most fencing websites never touch this. A gallery of finished colorbond runs and paling replacements is as far as it usually goes, with the neighbour left for a customer to raise on the phone if they think to ask. Geelong's newer estates raise the boundary question just as often as Melbourne's older streets, just from a different cause (a fresh subdivision line rather than a fence that's outlived three owners), which is why it's answered here rather than saved for the call.
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The other owner
A fencing contractor's quote has two owners to answer to, not one
Most of what a fencing quote has to answer sits entirely on the customer's own side of the boundary. This part doesn't.
Your customer
A written notice, before work startsDecides on the fence, signs the job, and is who a fencing contractor actually deals with, start to finish.
Liable for a share of the costThe neighbour
Never rings a fencing contractor and never sees a quote, but the law treats them as equally liable regardless.
Liable for a share of the cost, too- The proposed fence
- An estimated cost
- Each owner's share
The Fences Act 1968 (Vic) makes the owner of the adjoining land a real party to most residential fencing jobs, not just a bystander: adjoining owners are liable to contribute in equal proportions to a 'sufficient dividing fence', and before fencing works begin, the owner proposing them must give that neighbour a formal, written 'fencing notice' (naming the proposed fence, its estimated cost, and each owner's proposed share), and either wait for a response or make reasonable inquiries to locate a neighbour who cannot be found. If a notified neighbour does not respond within 30 days, or genuinely cannot be located after reasonable inquiries, the work can proceed without their agreement, and any contribution owed is recovered later through the Magistrates' Court, not negotiated directly with the fencing contractor.
Set out by the Parliamentary Counsel Victoria, Fences Act 1968 (Vic). Verified 31 August 2026.
What we build
Five things, built for a job with two people to answer to
Nothing here treats the neighbour as a footnote, because the job doesn't either.
Local SEO for fencing contractors
"Colorbond fence installation cost" finds someone pricing the job. "Fencing contractor [suburb]" finds someone shortlisting a name. Neither one is well served by a single page trying to answer both at once.
SEO and local searchGoogle Business Profile for fencing contractors
Dated photos of finished boundary fences, pool enclosures and gates do more to reassure a first-time caller than a paragraph of copy, including the neighbour who's about to be handed a notice about a business they've never heard of.
Google Business Profile managementAI automation
A quote that stalls after "let me check with next door" doesn't have to just go quiet. A follow-up that goes out once that conversation's had time to happen closes a gap a missed-call script never even sees.
How the automation worksBack-office support
Fencing gets quoted per linear metre and per post, and a boundary that isn't quite where a customer thought it was, or a post hole that hits rock, eats the margin quietly. Knowing what the last few jobs like it actually cost beats eyeballing a new one from memory.
Back office supportDelta's own read, not a sourced one
A fencing contractor's year still peaks in spring, on Delta's own reading of the calendar
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Nothing sourced for this trade sets a fencing-specific spring peak, unlike a mortar's own working-temperature datasheet or a turf grower's own root-establishment page, and neither of this page's two real citations gets stretched to manufacture one. What actually drives the booking calendar, on Delta's own read, is a property being presented for a spring sale with the fence already finished, and post holes going in easiest before winter's waterlogged clay turns to summer's baked ground. That's a commercial observation, not a sourced physical fact, and it's stated as exactly that.
A standalone class, gated by one number
$10,000is where a routine dividing-fence job crosses into building work in its own right.
Gates and fences have their own class. It isn't folded into landscaping.
Lawful to carry out, manage, or arrange gates-and-fences domestic building work as a standalone registration class in its own right, a different class again from structural landscaping and from swimming pool and spa construction. Registration in this class is required only once the job crosses the value threshold described below.
A swimming pool or spa safety barrier does not sit under that same class. It carries its own, heavier set of requirements, and which class (if either) covers a business that installs a barrier alone, without building the pool or spa itself, isn't settled by anything this page has read. This page states that plainly rather than guessing. A swimming pool or spa safety barrier is not covered by the same registration path as an ordinary dividing or boundary fence. The Building Regulations 2018 set a separate registration class specifically for constructing a swimming pool or spa, and require any building permit application for one to include detailed drawings and specifications of its safety barrier proving the barrier will comply. Ongoing obligations continue once it is built: the pool or spa must be registered with the local council, and its barrier must be certified compliant again every four years, a heavier, recurring regime with no equivalent for an ordinary fence.
Named by the Parliamentary Counsel Victoria, Building Regulations 2018 (Vic), Schedule 9. Verified 31 August 2026.
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Three things we're not prepared to do
None of these are sales lines. They're what actually happens once you're a client.
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Yours from day one, not leased back to you
The domain, the website and the Google listing all go live in your name, not Delta's. There's nothing to negotiate back later if you ever decide to move on.
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No season locked into a contract
Month to month, whether you're mid-job or between them. A note in writing ends it, no exit fee, and no minimum term quietly running in the background.
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We won't tell a customer what their neighbour owes
A website can explain how the notice-and-cost-share process generally works. It can't settle what a specific neighbour actually owes on a specific job, and we won't let the copy pretend it can.
Worth ten minutes
What a fencing contractor's job actually costs once the posts are in the ground
Fencing gets quoted per linear metre and per post, and a boundary that turns out not to be quite where the customer thought, a post hole that hits rock or a root, extra concrete, or gate hardware swapped mid-job can all eat into that number after the quote's already gone out. A $1,500 single-boundary run doesn't carry that risk the same way a $12,000 full re-fence does, so it's worth checking what a finished job actually made rather than trusting the original figure was right.
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Easy enough to verify
A business with an actual street address
Delta Infotech Pty Ltd has traded since 2021 from a street address you can look up, the same check a neighbour would want to make before agreeing to split a bill with a business they've never dealt with.
ABN
87 651 729 850
Where we are
30 Flagstaff St, Armstrong Creek VIC 3217
Trading since
2021
Before you hire us
What fencing contractors want answered before they sign up with a web agency
A lot of my quotes stall right after the customer says they need to check with next door. Can a website actually help with that?
It can stop it being a surprise. Laying out plainly, up front, what a neighbour notification actually involves, and that it's a normal, expected part of a dividing-fence job, not a red flag, means the customer isn't caught off guard mid-quote and doesn't need you on the phone to explain the process from scratch.
A job I quoted per metre is finished. How do I actually find out if it made money?
Usually you'd have to dig through invoices and guess. A post hole that hits rock, a boundary that wasn't quite where it was meant to be, or wastage cutting panels to an odd run all erode a fixed linear-metre quote without ever showing up as one obvious cost. The calculator below takes the real numbers off a finished job and works out what it actually paid.
Who owns my website and Google Business Profile once it's built?
You do. From the day it goes live, the domain, the site and the listing are all registered to you, so there's nothing to hand back or negotiate if you ever decide to leave.
Is there a lock-in contract?
There isn't one. Everything runs month to month, a note in writing ends it, and there's no exit fee or minimum term sitting in the background waiting to catch you out.
What does it actually cost to get a website built for a fencing business?
There's no fixed price list, because it depends on what the business actually needs shown. Getting picked up for suburb searches on a new boundary fence takes a genuinely different site to one built to prove a pool-fencing history to a referral. Send through whatever you're running now and we'll say plainly what's worth keeping, what isn't, and the number that fixing it comes to.
Should my registration go on the website, and how much detail does it need?
Show it, but keep it short. Stating the category by its plain name, and the dollar figure above which it kicks in, does the job a trust badge is meant to do. Nobody comparing fencing contractors on a Sunday night wants a regulation explained to them. They just want to see it's real.
Who else works to the same boundary
The trades whose jobs sit right on a fence line
A retaining wall, a pool enclosure and a new boundary fence often show up on the same job, quoted by different trades working the same few metres of ground.
Tell us what's already sitting on the boundary
Ring the number below, or send the form, and point us at whatever site or Google listing is already running under your name. The first thing we'll check is whether it gives a homeowner enough to trust you with the whole job, the neighbour conversation included, not just the fence going in.
A boundary in Geelong's newer estates raises the same neighbour question a boundary in Melbourne's older streets does, just for a different reason, and that's who this page is built for, from Geelong to Melbourne.