// Fence boards · Durham · DH1, DH6–DH7
Fence boards for Durham fencers and DIY — fresh, treated, stocked
Common Durham jobs we supply fence board for: Durham splits between the city-centre gardens (the older streets in Gilesgate, Nevilles Cross and around the Cathedral end) and the surrounding villages where the work's more rural — post-and-rail, paddock fencing, longer runs around larger plots. Brandon, Bowburn and Coxhoe are the regular village calls; Belmont and Framwellgate Moor for the city-fringe terraced runs. Trade supply to local landscape outfits working University-owned properties is steady through summer.
If it's bigger than a back-garden run — say a developer plot or a multi-house estate — ring the yard and we'll quote the whole load with delivery built in.
What we stock
- Material
- Treated (tantalised) softwood
- Standard heights
- 4ft (1.2m), 5ft (1.5m), 6ft (1.8m), 8ft (2.4m)
- Standard widths
- 4", 5", 6"
- Standard thickness
- 11mm tapered (closeboard) — true 16mm available
- Stock
- Multiples of 6ft × 6" carried; other sizes 1–2 day delivery
- Delivery to Durham
- Kerbside, 1–2 day, flat fee at checkout
- Click & collect
- Free from NE13 7BA, 45 min from Durham
Common uses
Full-height boundary fences, gate-frame fill, single-panel repairs after a storm, garden screens for patios and bin stores.
How to install / use
Boards run vertically on horizontal rails between 4×3" or 4×4" posts. Typical 6ft fence uses 6ft × 6" boards on 4ft 6" centres with two arris rails. For repairs, match the existing height and you can often slot a new board into the old line.
Installation notes are general guidance only. Timber sizes are approximate cut sizes (it's a natural material).
What Durham looks like for fencing
Heritage-area planning rules apply in the city centre — anywhere near the Cathedral, the peninsula or the conservation areas. We'll flag if your build needs a planning chat. Clay-heavy soil through Belmont and Pittington means deeper postcrete sets — we factor in extra cure time before fitting rails. Rural Durham village plots often run longer than city ones; bigger orders, longer runs, more cost-effective.
Neighbourhoods we drop to: Belmont, Brandon, Bowburn, Pittington, Carrville, Sherburn, Coxhoe, Framwellgate Moor, Newton Hall, Gilesgate, Nevilles Cross. Plus surrounding postcodes (DH1, DH6–DH7) — drop your postcode at checkout if you're unsure.
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