Ramsgate · Royal Harbour · West Cliff · Broadstairs edge · CT11 · CT12
Closeboard, panel, picket and palisade fencing across Ramsgate CT11 and CT12. Every post concreted into the chalk. Every gate on hot-dip galvanised or stainless hardware because the salt air will find zinc plating inside a year. Fixed-price quotes, no day-rate creep, and a proper job or you pay nothing.
What we do
Specified for Ramsgate's mix of Regency terraces on the West Cliff, mid-C20th estates around Nethercourt and Newington, the older village core at St Lawrence, and the wind-exposed clifftop plots that need a heavier concrete-post-and-gravel-board build than an inland job.
The workhorse: vertical featheredge boards fixed to horizontal arris rails, concrete post and gravel board underneath. The right spec for wind-exposed clifftop and West Cliff runs. £75 to £110 per metre installed.
Scope & pricingReady-made 6ft x 6ft lap or featheredge panels, concrete-posted for a proper install. Faster than closeboard but not always the right call on the clifftop. £60 to £90 per metre.
Scope & pricingTraditional front-garden picket fence. Perfect for St Lawrence cottages and the Regency streets where a full 6ft boundary would look wrong. Painted or stained finish. £55 to £85 per metre.
Scope & pricingGalvanised steel palisade for yards, industrial units and rear-boundary security. W-section pales, three horizontal rails, RSJ posts concreted deep. £120 to £180 per metre.
Scope & pricingTimber and metal gates. Hot-dip galv or stainless hardware because the sea air kills zinc-plated hinges here. Pedestrian £180 to £800; driveway single £900 to £2,400; double £1,600 to £4,500.
Scope & pricingTimber and composite decking, designed for coastal weather. Marine-grade fixings, elevated on posts where the ground drops, deck-boards specified with a proper drainage gap. £150 to £240 per square metre.
Scope & pricingThe sensible default here. Timber posts rot at ground level; concrete posts don't. Upgrade an existing timber-post run to concrete without replacing the panels: £45 to £70 per post fitted.
Scope & pricingPanel replaced, post reset, gate rehung, hinge swapped. Small jobs charged small: single-panel replace £70 to £130, single post reset £90 to £150, gate rehang from £75.
Scope & pricingWhy local matters
Ramsgate sits on chalk. Once you're through 300 to 600mm of topsoil you hit solid chalk substrate, and that changes how a post-hole gets dug. An auger through chalk is efficient - the chalk breaks and comes up cleanly - but you can't cheat the concrete. A post seated well on chalk with a proper concrete collar will hold a 1.83m closeboard run through anything the North Sea sends at it. A post shoved in dry with hand-packed spoil will not.
The other local reality is the wind. The West Cliff and the East Cliff take the full sea breeze; the Royal Harbour bowl is sheltered by contrast. On a clifftop plot in Truro Road or on the West Cliff Promenade side, we default to concrete posts with concrete gravel boards and specify board thicknesses one notch heavier than an inland Kent job. It costs a little more up front and it pays back in fifteen years of not calling us out to reset panels after every winter storm.
Salt air is the third factor. Anything within a mile of the sea gets hot-dip galvanised or stainless hardware as standard - hinges, gate latches, coach bolts, the lot. Zinc-plated fittings from a builders' merchant catalogue will corrode inside eighteen months here. We've stopped fitting them.
Conservation area work
The West Cliff Regency terraces sit inside a Thanet DC conservation area. Front-garden boundary work above 1m needs planning consent, and the Article 4 direction on some frontages catches even permitted-development changes. On these jobs we quote for the Thanet DC application timeline as part of the scope, and we default to painted timber picket rather than closeboard so the streetscape reads correctly.
Three promises
If the finished fence is not what we described in the quote - post lean, panel gap, gate binding - we come back and fix it. If we can't fix it, you don't pay. That's the standard. We can offer it because we don't cut corners on posts or hardware.
Once we've seen the run - either in person or from your WhatsApp photos - the price is fixed. If the ground turns out worse than expected or a gate frame needs re-squaring on site, that's our problem, not yours. No day-rate creep, no "while we're here" extras.
Every job leaves you with photos of the finished run, plus a couple of the post-holes and concrete before the boards went up. Useful for landlord records, useful for insurance, and useful if a future storm ever raises a question.
Where we work
CT11 for the Royal Harbour, West Cliff, town centre and the Regency streets. CT12 for St Lawrence, Nethercourt, Newington, Dumpton and out to Pegwell and Cliffsend. Same trade, one consistent standard, priced for what the ground actually is under each patch.
The working-harbour edge and the Regency core. Sheltered harbour bowl for the most part, but the sea wall properties still catch salt. Concrete-post upgrades on end-of-life timber-post runs are the steady beat here.
The clifftop Regency terraces. Front-garden work triggers conservation-area consent above 1m; rear-garden work is wind-exposed and specced heavier than an inland job. Hot-dip galv gate hardware as standard.
The older village core and the mid-C20th estates that grew around it. Larger gardens, less salt exposure, more panel-fencing than closeboard on straight rear-boundary runs.
Recent work
A running log of jobs across CT11 and CT12. Updated as we finish them.
Send a photo and a postcode. Fixed-price WhatsApp quote back within the hour on straightforward jobs.