Fence Painting Melbourne

A tired timber fence makes the whole frontage look worse than it is, and most of them do not need replacing, they need proper preparation and two coats of the right product. Timber paling fences run $15 to $30 per linear metre to paint professionally, a fraction of the cost of new fencing, and with the right prep the finish lasts five to ten years in Melbourne conditions. The prep is the job: a high-pressure wash to strip grey weathering and mould, a sand to open the grain, then a penetrating primer on bare timber before the topcoats go on. On hardwood palings like Merbau we use a tannin-blocking primer first, otherwise moisture draws brown tannin stains straight through the new paint.

Colorbond and steel fences get painted more often than people expect. The factory finish fades unevenly after years of UV, and repainting at $8 to $15 per linear metre refreshes or completely changes the colour for far less than new panels. The process matters on metal: rust is treated back to sound steel and spot-primed with a dedicated metal primer, bare or chalky areas are primed, and the fence then gets a quality exterior metal topcoat. Painting over active rust just seals the problem in, so we never do it.

Brick and rendered fence walls round out the picture at roughly $12 to $20 per metre. Masonry needs its own approach: a stiff clean-down, treatment of any efflorescence (the white salt bloom that pushes through brickwork), filling of hairline render cracks and a masonry sealer before two coats of exterior acrylic. Whatever the fence is made of, we measure it on site, tell you straight if a section is too far gone to be worth painting, and put the whole job in a fixed written quote. That is how Modernize Solutions has quoted since 1987.