Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 May 17, 2011 1:32 am What do people think of colorbond fences when used with a rendered house? Ideally a rendered wall fence would probably look the best but the cost is at least 3-5x more and have seen quite a few homes where the rendering is worse for wear after a few years. Did come across 2 homes where colorbond was used. 1 home used an almost white colorbond fence similar to surfmist. However looking at the colorbond website, and could not find any official fencing colour like. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 2May 17, 2011 12:20 pm noki388 What do people think of colorbond fences when used with a rendered house? “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 3May 17, 2011 2:05 pm the thing I don't like about colorbond fences is they restrict air-flow Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 4May 17, 2011 2:17 pm Quote: Also cultivating plants near a colourbond fence can be an issue. What sort of issue?? I have many plants growing in front of my colourbond fences and creepers growing up on them with no issues whatsoever - you just attach a wire frame and secure between the posts. You would have to do this to grow creepers agaisnt any fence. Quote: the thing I don't like about colorbond fences is they restrict air-flow Havent noticed any problems with air flow either - there is lots of airspace above my 6 ft fences for air to flow in Admittedly I have a single story house on a relatively large block, maybe that makes a difference Aesthetics is a matter of opinion and I dont have a rendered house anyway so cant comment from that POV but above objections seem rather unfounded to me. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 5May 17, 2011 4:24 pm Helyn What sort of issue?? High Temperatures “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 7May 17, 2011 5:46 pm I don't see any problem, either for growing plants or aesthetics. We have a rendered house and a colorbond fence (although it is the rear fence) and I certainly think it looks fine. In fact many of the new estates in our area require colorbond fencing as part of the estate rules and the majority of those houses are rendered. Our veggie patch goes right up to the fence and we have a grapevine and various citrus trees there as well. No problems at all. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 8May 17, 2011 7:15 pm kay-you I don't see any problem, either for growing plants or aesthetics. We have a rendered house and a colorbond fence (although it is the rear fence) and I certainly think it looks fine. In fact many of the new estates in our area require colorbond fencing as part of the estate rules and the majority of those houses are rendered. Hi Kay You IMO they still look cheap and unappealing. I much prefer traditional materials such as timber and brick as it visually matches modern and traditional architecture. Cheers “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 9May 17, 2011 7:31 pm I'm hearing you. I don't think it looks that bad. I think it looks okay. We have been in our home for 12mths and I am still deciding on what fence we should get. I wanted something really different but that came with a hefty price tag. I want to make sure I get it right. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 10May 17, 2011 8:14 pm thanks for the feedback. if money was not an issue, certainly agree with the rendered fence. in perth anyway, timber fences are not that common. what about whiter coloured colorbond? as mentioned not seen this colour on the official website but saw it at a home and it looked a lot better than the typical beige/yellow/green colours most common here Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 11May 17, 2011 8:58 pm There are heaps of different colours to choose from now - just be aware that the fence colours are different than the roofing ones. I didn't like the traditional colours that much either and so we ended up with a red fence (red oak). I was a bit nervous when ordering, but it looks great (IMO ). As I mentioned before, there are fruit trees and a grapevine along the fence, so the red is a nice contrast to all of the greenery in front and behind (large eucalypts). It also contrasts nicely with all of the creamy/yellow of the render, verandah posts and gutters of the house. A yellowy fence would have definately been too much. I guess you need to weigh up the aesthetics as well as your needs in the fence (e.g. privacy, security, views) and see what fits your budget. Then put up what YOU like the look of. Your house after all! Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 14May 17, 2011 11:13 pm The newly erected fence. We lost the old fibro cement one in a storm (now THAT was an ugly fence). Luckily we didn't lose the grapevine (note temporary tee-pee suppor http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/p1000809a.jpg/ A few months on and the grapevine has been put back along the fence and is in full leaf. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/84 ... 011be.jpg/ May try for some better photos tomorrow, if time permits. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 15May 18, 2011 12:16 am As someone above mentioned, the Colorbond fencing colours are different to the Colorbond roofing colours. The lightest C/bond fencing colour is Domain - but it's still more of a cream than a white. The C/bond site has a colour chart that shows the different options available. The white colour you saw on another house could have been powder coated aluminium? Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 16May 18, 2011 12:48 am CA3105 As someone above mentioned, the Colorbond fencing colours are different to the Colorbond roofing colours. The lightest C/bond fencing colour is Domain - but it's still more of a cream than a white. The C/bond site has a colour chart that shows the different options available. The white colour you saw on another house could have been powder coated aluminium? Thanks CA3105. Thats what was puzzling me. The colour was like surfmist but surfmist is not available for fencing. I had never heard of powder coated aluminium. Is it similiar to colorbond in terms of durability and cost? It looked quite good. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 17May 18, 2011 1:01 am I've actually only seen powder coated aluminium used as infill panels for walls (eg. to front boundary walls where there are brick or rendered piers with horizontal powder coated infill panels), so I'm not too sure if it comes in full panels like Colorbond does. What sort of situation did you see the other fence? I guess otherwise perhaps someone had a C/bond fence and spraypainted it white? My understanding is that it is very strong, and being aluminium it of course won't rust. If you are in a coastal area the powder coated aluminium is very hardy as Colorbond can have longer term issues with salty air (the same as Colorbond roofing does in coastal areas). Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 18May 18, 2011 11:53 am Ours was already in place - as all the other homes around our block were built & fenced. It's cream / off white colorbond. Personally I'm not a fan of it. The past 2 summers have been hard with the glare coming off the fence into the house, now we're getting a bit of garden growth next summer will be better. We're 1km from the beach, so it will be interesting how it goes in terms of rust. We've had to be very careful in planting near it. A great deal of fence line we have put in a "dog run" path for the kids and set the garden beds off from the fence, to avoid fence issues with neighbours down the track (damage, etc). I'd love an 'old school' timber fence - where the kids can stand on the rungs and have a chat to the neighbours I'd love to be able to nail things to the fence, hang things off it, easier to trellis, etc. It's not so easy with a colorbond fence. I'm still trying to work out a good way to add some trellis to get some vine plants growing around, but with colorbond it's not that cheap - either the colorbond lattice, which is at least $80 per fence panel. Or the green leaf trellis which are very small and work out to be around $60 per fence panel. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 19May 18, 2011 7:18 pm Kay I reckon your fence looks better than any other colourbond fence I have seen. I do like Woodland grey but it's wrong for our house. I did consider red a while ago. I am waiting a price for powder coat in the colour we want. Re: Colorbond Fence Yay or Nay 20May 19, 2011 4:55 pm Dollar Kay I reckon your fence looks better than any other colourbond fence I have seen. I do like Woodland grey but it's wrong for our house. I did consider red a while ago. I am waiting a price for powder coat in the colour we want. Thanks Dollar, can you post how much extra to get a custom colour when you get the quote. Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 10107 Hi all, Our boundary perimeter fences need replacing (3 sides). From everyone's experience, what would you install? Timber lapped and capped OR colorbond? Thank you. 0 2861 You should pressure clean your roof first and make sure the paint you buy also is anti mould. 4 17655 |