Get in touch
The quickest way is to ring. If I am on a site I will not answer, but I will call back - or send the form below and I will come back to you with a straight answer about whether this is something I can help with.
What helps me give you a useful answer
None of this is required - ring me with nothing and we will work it out. But if you have it to hand, it turns a vague conversation into a specific one, and it is often enough for me to tell you on the first call whether you need to engage anybody at all.
- What the project or the problem is, in whatever words fit it
- Roughly how much fencing, in metres or kilometres, even approximately
- What it has to do - contain stock, secure a site, mark a boundary, satisfy an auditor
- Any tenders, quotes or specifications you already hold, which are the single most useful thing you can send
- Photographs, particularly of a fence that is failing or work that is in dispute
- Any deadline - a settlement date, a tender close, a council meeting, a hearing
If your question is really about who has to pay for a boundary fence, that is the Fencing Act 1978 and the legal side of it belongs with a lawyer rather than with me. What I can do is establish what the fence should be and what it ought to cost, which is usually the part that is genuinely in dispute.
Access, cartage and ground conditions move a price further than the fence specification does. It is the first thing I ask about.
What happens after you send it
I read every enquiry myself and reply myself, usually the same day if it arrives during the working week. The reply is a real answer rather than an acknowledgement: what I think the issue is, whether it needs me, and roughly what it would involve.
If it turns out you do not need to engage anyone, I will tell you that, and there is no charge for the conversation that established it.
Deadlines and disputes
Some of this work is time-critical: a settlement date, a tender closing, a payment about to be released, or a matter that is already with lawyers or an insurer. If you are on a clock, say so in the first line and ring rather than email.
Tell me the date you are working to and I will tell you straight away whether I can meet it. If I cannot, you will know that on day one rather than on day nine.
Tell me what you are trying to work out
Most people get in touch because they have a decision to make and nobody independent to check it with - a tender that does not add up, a fence line that keeps failing, a dispute that has stopped moving, or a property they are about to buy. Describe the situation and I will tell you honestly whether it needs me, and what it would take.
021 614 100- nick@customfenceconsulting.co.nz
- 130 Edinburgh Street, Waikouaiti 9510, Otago
- Monday to Friday, 7am - 5.30pm
Based at Waikouaiti in East Otago and working throughout New Zealand. Site work anywhere in the country; desk work - a tender review, a specification, an opinion on a set of photographs - can start the day you send it.