About the journal

Fences R Us began life as a working name for Australian fencing. The domain still sounds like a yard with a stack of COLORBOND sheets and a ute backed up to the gate. This rebuild keeps that trade-floor voice and turns it into a long-form journal: how a fence is specified, who pays for it, and what the climate will do to it after the installer has gone.

The old consumer site is no longer recoverable from public archives we could reach. We inferred the niche from the name — fences, in Australia — and wrote from the questions people actually search: COLORBOND versus paling, pool-barrier height, dividing-fences notices, rural wire, coastal salt, and the contractor who will not put extras in writing.

Who writes here

Helen Crowe covers suburban materials and street character. Priya Nair covers pool barriers and neighbour law, always as journalism rather than advice. Mark Denham writes the rural and fire-country pieces. Tom Laird handles installation, maintenance, gates and the unglamorous work of getting a quote that can be compared.

What we are not

We are not a contractor directory, a quoting engine, or a substitute for a licensed fencer, a surveyor or a solicitor. COLORBOND® is a registered trademark of BlueScope Steel Limited; we use it because that is the product Australians actually name. Statutes and Australian Standards change. Read the editorial standards before you treat a paragraph as a specification.

Corrections and pitches go through contact or the write for us desk.