My neighbours are keen to replace a timber fence with a colorbond one. What is everyone's preference for fencing when it comes to their PPOR? Colorbond or treated pine and why?
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If your only replacing one side of your fence then i suggest going with what the rest of your fences have. Color bond doesn't match that well up against the other timber fences you might have.
That said, if you are not worried about the other points a new color bond fence would go great if you replaced all your fences with that. That said your other neighbors probably would want to keep timber anyway
Is the fence line level? If not, colorbond fences end up with steps in them which can be unattractive.
It's gently sloping, but over the course of about 50 metres, the drop is about 2m. The steps in the colorbond is a compelling reason to go with timber in this case then, right?
I wonder what the law is in such a situation...
But I think a timber fence is much more attractive than Colourbond, even though it's cheaper, and if I paid half for a timber fence but the neighbour was happy to pay more for a Colourbond fence, I wouldn't be happy at all (though the legislation seems to assume that I'd think I was getting a bargain) if they put up a Colourbond fence.
I wouldn't want the Colourbond fence at any price, and in fact wouldn't want to contribute anything, because in my mind, I'd have to pay for a second, timber, fence, to cover up the ugly Colourbond one.