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Fencing and gates in Dublin

Erecting or repairing fences, posts and gates. Post your task free and professionals working in Dublin reply with their own price. You choose, and pay them directly.

Fencing and gates by town in Dublin

The same trade, town by town. Somebody who searched for their own town should land on their own town.

Fencing and gates: what the job involves

Putting up or repairing garden boundaries — timber panels, featheredge, post-and-rail, composite boards, railings and gates — on posts set in concrete. In an Irish wind, what keeps a fence standing is post depth, post spacing and the gravel boards at the bottom.

How long it takes: One to three days for a typical back garden; old concrete footings, rock, slopes or a long run add time.

The full guide to fencing and gates — the steps, what is included, the Irish rules, paperwork and questions to ask.

What fencing and gates in Dublin costs, and why

What jobs on Talqero came to

Not enough comparable jobs yet to publish a range here. Talqero shows a price range only once at least five comparable jobs, agreed prices or offers exist — a range from fewer would describe a handful of jobs, not the market. Post your job and compare the offers you get.

What affects the price

  • Length and height of the run
  • Material: treated timber, concrete posts with timber panels, composite, or metal
  • Removing and disposing of the old fence
  • Ground: rock, old footings, slopes and stepping the fence
  • Number and type of gates
  • VAT: hard landscaping is building work, charged at the reduced 13.5% rate by a VAT-registered business unless materials are more than two-thirds of the price — ask whether a quote includes VAT
  • VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced rate of 13.5% by a VAT-registered business — unless the materials come to more than two-thirds of the price, when Revenue’s two-thirds rule applies the goods rate to the whole job. Ask whether a quote includes VAT.

County Dublin: what the figures say

  • County Dublin has 518,490 households and 24,199 active construction businesses (2023) — about 21 homes for every firm, against about 23 across Ireland. The figure covers construction as a whole, not any one trade.

    Central Statistics Office, 2023

Rules and grants for fencing and gates

The rules in Ireland

Whoever takes green waste, soil or old paving away must hold a waste collection permit.

  • Anybody who takes your waste away must hold a waste collection permit. Handing waste to an unpermitted collector is an offence for the householder, with a fine of up to €5,000 — ask for the permit number, which collectors must show on vehicles and receipts.

What to ask before you choose

  • What sub-base and drainage will you put down?
  • Who removes the soil and waste, and with what permit?
  • What guarantee is there on the work?
  • Is VAT included?

What the work usually involves

  • Lawn mowing and hedge trimming
  • Fencing and gates
  • Paving, patios and artificial grass
  • Garden design and planting

What to put in your task

  • Roughly how big the garden is
  • One-off or regular maintenance
  • Photos of the area as it is now
  • Access — side passage, or through the house

County Dublin in figures

Active construction enterprises
24,199
Central Statistics Office, 2023
Homes built before 1981
47.9%
Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by natural gas
65.9%
Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by oil
8.8%
Central Statistics Office, 2022

Construction as a whole. The CSO does not publish enterprise counts per trade at county level, so this figure is not a count of any one trade.

Fencing and gates · Dublin

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