Fencing service highlights for Balham
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SW12–SW17
£30 survey
Fencing in Balham
alham is wall-to-wall Victorian and Edwardian terraces, which means most jobs here are one thing: a 15 to 22 metre rear boundary shared with a neighbour who can see every board. The Heaver Estate and the Hyde Farm streets are consistent enough that we can price a run from photos with real confidence — same plot widths, same fence lines, same 100-year-old brick piers turning up where the old fence met the return wall.
What Balham throws at a fence
The Balham-specific issue is neighbour agreement rather than ground conditions. Because so many boundaries are genuinely shared, hit-and-miss is the diplomatic answer — identical from both gardens, so there's no good side and bad side argument. Where an old fence is nailed to a neighbour's posts we won't cut it away without a conversation first. Balham is in our Local drive-time tier: the estimate is free and the optional fixed-price survey is £30, taken off the job in full.
Most Balham jobs are one of two things: a new fence installation where there's nothing there yet, or a full fence replacement of a boundary that's come to the end of its life.
Quick facts
- Survey fee
- £30
- Typical job
- £1.5k–£4k
- Typical timeline
- 1–3 days on site
Later, only if you want it · comes off your job
Minimum job £1,200
Weather depending
Most-requested fences in Balham.
- 01
Hit-and-miss on shared boundaries
By far the most-fitted style in SW12 — it ends the whose-side-is-the-nice-side conversation before it starts.
- 02
Overlap panels with concrete posts
What most Balham landlords and quick pre-sale jobs go for. Cheapest per metre we'll still stand behind.
- 03
Closeboard with a trellis top
Adds height for privacy from a neighbour's loft extension without a solid 2 metre wall of timber.
Balham prices, per metre fitted.
Supply and installation, VAT included, for a standard replacement on clear ground. These are the same figures our estimator uses — updated August 2026.
Worked example
18 m of 6 ft closeboard with concrete posts and gravel boards, standard access, clear boundary — £2,950–£4,050 fitted.
Taking the old fence away is an optional extra you choose on the estimate form — it's priced separately and isn't in the figures above. Minimum job £1,200.
The Balham-specific issue is neighbour agreement rather than ground conditions.
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What that looks like on a real Balham garden.
The same per-metre rates above, applied to three jobs we see often around here. Illustrative, not a second price list — your figure is fixed at the survey.
Example job
18m shared rear boundary, hit-and-miss, concrete posts.
£3,510
Looks the same from both gardens.
Example job
22m overlap panels with gravel boards.
£3,080
The budget option that still gets concrete posts.
Example job
14m closeboard, 6ft, one side return included.
£2,310
One day on a typical Hyde Farm plot.
Send photos through the estimate form and we'll come back with your indicative figure the same day (next morning if it's the evening).
Four steps, no surprises.
Send photos
Through the estimate form. Takes 3 minutes.
Indicative estimate
Same day in working hours. Free, honest range, no pressure.
£30 fixed-price survey, if you want it
Want a fixed price? We visit Balham, measure, and lock it in. The fee comes off your job price.
Install
Our team fits it — usually 1–3 days on site.
Why Balham homeowners pick us over a random trade.
One company, end to end
GoodFence is a small London fencing company. We survey every Balham job, price it, fit it with our own team and stand behind it ourselves. One contract, one number, one company on the hook — not a directory, not a stranger off a phonebook.
Fixed price, no day-of surprises
The price you sign off doesn't move unless the ground itself tells us otherwise — and if it does, we put any change in writing before we touch a tool. One quote, one number to call.
Specced for Balham ground
Clay across the south and east, made-up ground and buried rubble near anything rebuilt after the war, and tree roots wherever there is a street plane or a mature garden boundary. Concrete posts earn their keep on exposed runs. Concrete posts on exposed runs, pressure-treated rails, proper feather-edge — we spec the bits that decide how long it lasts.
On a shared boundary we set out from the existing brick piers rather than eyeballing the line, so the new fence lands where the old one legally sat and nobody gains an inch.
Where in Balham we work.
- Heaver Estate
- Nightingale Lane
- Bedford Hill
- Hyde Farm
- Balham Hill
- Tooting Bec
- Ramsden Road
On the edge of Balham? Drop your postcode into the estimate form and we'll confirm coverage.
Worth reading before you commit.
The three things Balham homeowners ask us most, answered in full — no sign-up, no catch.
Balham questions.
Ready when you are, Balham.
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