Fence Repairs & Replacement in Whitby

Fence Repairs in Whitby

What we see on Whitby fence repairs jobs

Whitby, the residential part of Ellesmere Port rather than the Yorkshire one, is 1960s to 1980s estate housing on flat, open ground between Whitby Park, Overpool, Stanney and the M53, and that exposure is what shapes the fence repairs we do here. There is nothing much to break the wind coming across from the estuary, the plots are long and level, and the rear boundaries are mostly six-foot lap or closeboard panels put up when the estates were young and replaced a bit at a time since. Once a westerly gets behind a panel on one of these open runs it goes, and it usually takes the panel next to it too. The ground does not help — heavy and slow to drain, so timber posts rot at the base within a few winters and the whole run starts to lean. Fence repairs in Whitby are therefore about building for the wind: concrete posts and gravel boards where timber has failed, panels fixed so they cannot rattle loose, and gates re-hung on posts that will hold them. We are a short run up from our Chester base and in Ellesmere Port most weeks, so a blown-down section can usually be looked at quickly.