Fencing & Turf Installation in Kingswood

The brief

The garden needed its two biggest elements sorted at once: a boundary fence that had seen better days, and a lawn that had worn thin and patchy. The owners had originally thought of them as two separate jobs for two separate times, until the obvious problem surfaced: fencing work is heavy work, with old materials coming out and new posts going in, and doing it after a new lawn would mean trampling the very thing they'd just paid for. Combining the jobs into one sequenced project solved it, and turned two disruptions into one.

How we approached it

Sequencing was the whole strategy here. The fence came first: removal of the old run, new posts set properly, panels up, all the boot traffic, barrows and materials crossing the garden while it could do no harm. Only once the boundary was finished and the heavy work done did lawn preparation begin, so the new turf was the last thing in and the first thing protected.

Each half of the job still got its full treatment rather than a combined-job discount on quality. The fence was built from the ground down, posts set to depth, timber kept clear of soil moisture, because that's where fences live or die. The lawn was treated as a ground project: the old surface stripped, compaction relieved, levels corrected and soil improved before a roll of turf appeared. A combined project should mean one visit, not half measures twice.

What we did

• ✓Planned the sequence so all heavy fencing work finished before any lawn preparation began
• ✓Removed the old fencing, posts and footings and cleared them from site
• ✓Set new posts to the correct depth and installed the new fence run for privacy and a clean backdrop
• ✓Stripped the old lawn and relieved the compaction beneath it
• ✓Corrected levels, improved the soil and prepared a fine, firm surface
• ✓Laid fresh turf across the prepared area with staggered joints
• ✓Cleared all waste from both phases and handed over one finished garden

The result

Two upgrades that multiply each other: the crisp new boundary frames the garden, and the fresh lawn fills the frame. Doing them as one sequenced project meant no new turf ruined by fence traffic, one period of disruption instead of two, and a single tidy handover. The garden reads as renewed from every angle, structure and centrepiece together, and both halves were built the slow, unseen way that means neither will need thinking about again soon.