How high should palisade fencing be?

1800mm is the practical minimum for anything security related, 2400mm is the common depot height, and 3000mm gets specified where the insurer or the risk assessment asks for it. Height alone is not security, so the fixings and the gate matter just as much.

Can you fit a palisade gate wide enough for lorries?

Yes. Wide vehicle openings are made as double leaves or, where there is room to run, as a sliding gate. The constraint is usually the ground and the swing space, so we measure the swept path before we quote a leaf size.

Does palisade need painting?

Not if it is hot dip galvanised. Colour is optional powder coat on top. What does need attention is the ironmongery on the gates, which we check as part of any maintenance visit.

Can palisade pales be unbolted from outside?

On a cheap line, yes, and that is exactly how sites get entered without a single cut. We use security fixings so the pales cannot be removed from the public face with a spanner.

Is palisade suitable for a house?

Almost never. It is an industrial product, it reads as one, and there is usually a better answer for a home. We would rather talk you into vertical bar or a properly built timber line than fit something you will dislike.

What do most Ware customers ask you for on this?

Georgian and Victorian properties in the centre, with newer suburban estates around Wengeo Lane shape most of it, so the common brief here is a run measured to an existing boundary rather than an off the shelf size. Riverside plots can hit the water table within two spades — concrete-set posts and proper drainage are essential, and that shows up in the post work more than in the steel above it.

Palisade fencing in Ware

Ware Palisade Fencing, Specified Around the Risk

Steel palisade for yards, depots and compounds, where the boundary is there to be difficult to get through.

Palisade is bought by people with a risk register, not people with a garden. Profiled steel pales bolted to horizontal rails, triple pointed heads, no footholds, and nothing about it apologising for what it is.

It is specified where the boundary is the security measure: builders compounds, plant yards, depots, storage sites, substations and the rear of commercial units where the vulnerable point is a fence line nobody can see from the road.

The parts of a palisade line that fail are almost never the pales. They are the fixings, the rail ends and the gate. That is where we spend the specification effort and where a cheap line is cheap.

How it is specified

Typical height: 1800mm to 3000mm depending on the risk
Pale profile: W or D section pales, triple pointed or round head
Fixings: Security fixings so pales cannot simply be unbolted from the outside
Rails: Two or three rails by height, with rail ends fixed into the post rather than surface bolted
Finish: Hot dip galvanised, powder coated where the client wants a colour

Galvanised is standard on palisade and colour is the exception. Where a site sits next to housing, a dark powder coat over the galvanising takes a good deal of the hostility out of the line without weakening it.

What is different about Ware

We are insured for commercial work across East Hertfordshire District Council and will put the locking arrangement, the pale profile and the fixing type in writing on the quote, so an insurer or a managing agent can see exactly what has been fitted at Ware.

Access is the constraint here more often than the fence is. Long pales and posts arrive off A10 / A1170 with A1(M) J4 (15 min) behind it, and on a working site we phase the line so the compound is closed every night, not just at the end of the job.

Riverside plots can hit the water table within two spades — concrete-set posts and proper drainage are essential, which changes foundation depth on a tall line before it changes anything else. On a 2400mm palisade run the post hole is the specification.

Where this is the right answer

Yards, depots, compounds and storage sites
The unseen rear boundaries of commercial units
Plant and machinery storage where theft risk is real and insurers ask questions
Sites where an existing timber or mesh line has already been breached

Palisade is close to always the wrong product for a home. It looks industrial because it is industrial, most residential planning contexts will not welcome it, and the neighbours will remember it longer than you will. For a domestic boundary that needs to be secure, we specify vertical bar or a closeboard line with a proper post system instead.

Palisade Fencing fitted in Ware, SG12 (1)

Palisade Fencing fitted in Ware, SG12 (2)

Palisade Fencing fitted in Ware, SG12 (3)

How we build it

1. Risk walk
We walk the boundary looking for the weak point rather than measuring the easy bit: the low wall, the bin store, the gate that has been forced before.
2. Foundations and posts
Posts concreted deep enough for the height, because a three metre line is a lever and a shallow foundation is where it gives.
3. Gates and closures
Gate frames made heavier than the fence, hung on commercial hinges, with the locking arrangement agreed in writing before fabrication.

Common questions

How high should palisade fencing be?: 1800mm is the practical minimum for anything security related, 2400mm is the common depot height, and 3000mm gets specified where the insurer or the risk assessment asks for it. Height alone is not security, so the fixings and the gate matter just as much.
Can you fit a palisade gate wide enough for lorries?: Yes. Wide vehicle openings are made as double leaves or, where there is room to run, as a sliding gate. The constraint is usually the ground and the swing space, so we measure the swept path before we quote a leaf size.
Does palisade need painting?: Not if it is hot dip galvanised. Colour is optional powder coat on top. What does need attention is the ironmongery on the gates, which we check as part of any maintenance visit.
Can palisade pales be unbolted from outside?: On a cheap line, yes, and that is exactly how sites get entered without a single cut. We use security fixings so the pales cannot be removed from the public face with a spanner.
Is palisade suitable for a house?: Almost never. It is an industrial product, it reads as one, and there is usually a better answer for a home. We would rather talk you into vertical bar or a properly built timber line than fit something you will dislike.
What do most Ware customers ask you for on this?: Georgian and Victorian properties in the centre, with newer suburban estates around Wengeo Lane shape most of it, so the common brief here is a run measured to an existing boundary rather than an off the shelf size. Riverside plots can hit the water table within two spades — concrete-set posts and proper drainage are essential, and that shows up in the post work more than in the steel above it.

Palisade for yards and compounds in Ware

Send the site plan or the boundary length and tell us what has already happened. We price pales, rails, fixings, posts and gates as separate lines so nothing hides in a rate per metre. £5m public liability insurance in place.

Related metal work: Bow top fencing, Weld mesh fencing, Railings and estate fencing. Main hub: metal fencing and gates.

Nearby: Palisade fencing in Hertford, Palisade fencing in Hoddesdon, Palisade fencing in Welwyn Garden City.

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