Postline Fencing Co. The fencer who shows you the price by the metre.
Postline has built fences across the Sunshine Coast since 2011. In that time we learned the thing homeowners actually want is not the lowest number, it is an honest price they can see and posts that stay standing straight. So we built the business around making both plain: the price on the screen, and the footing depth on the quote.
Most fences go wrong before a single paling is fixed. A post knocked straight into reactive clay. A "steel fence" with no brand named. A price quoted over the phone by someone who never measured the boundary or checked the soil. By the time you can see the problem, the fence leaning a couple of seasons in, the gaps under the panels on the slope, the gate dropping, the fencer is long gone and the warranty was never in writing.
Postline started in 2011 after twenty years on the tools watching exactly that. The founding idea was simple: write the quote so the price, the material and the footing depth are impossible to hide, and put an honest by-the-metre range on the screen so a homeowner knows roughly what 38 m of Colorbond costs before booking anyone. The metres, the height, the material, the post type and footing depth, the gates, the removal, the boundary note. Each one a line. Put next to a cheaper quote, ours does not look dearer. It looks complete.
I would rather lose the job to an honest by-the-metre price than win it by knocking posts into the dirt. The fences I win on a quote that names the footing depth are the ones still standing straight in ten years.
Today we build timber and paling, Colorbond and steel, aluminium and pool-compliant, tubular and security, gates and automation, and rural post-and-rail, plus the repairs and replacements in between, across the Sunshine Coast, with no travel surcharge within 40km of Maroochydore.
Three things we will not compromise on.
The itemised page vs the text-message price.
We put the price on the screen
Fencing is metres, by height, by material, so we show you an honest by-the-metre range before you book anyone. Then we measure and pin the exact figure on site. We would rather lose a job to a fair number you can see than win it by hiding behind "every job is different, contact us".
The footings are set properly, every time
The posts and footings are the part that fails first, and the part a cheap fence skimps. We dig to the right depth for the soil and the height and set the posts in concrete, deeper in reactive clay and on sloping ground. It is why our warranty covers them, and why our fences are still standing straight in ten years.
We name the material, never "or equivalent"
Genuine Colorbond by BlueScope, the colour and product named on the quote, and treated pine or hardwood by grade. Not a look-alike steel that fades and chalks in a few summers. You know exactly what you are getting before you sign, not after it is installed.
The boundary conversation, done straight
A shared boundary fence is normally a split cost under the Dividing Fences Act. We give you a clear quote to put in front of the neighbour and a plain-English note on how the split works, so the hardest part of a boundary fence becomes the easy part.
Who we are the right fencer for, and who we are not.
We would rather lose a job to a fairer fit than win one we will both regret. Here is who Postline suits.
If you want the cheapest number on the street and you do not mind posts knocked into the dirt, we are probably not your fencer. If you want a fence priced honestly by the metre, posts set in concrete to the right depth, the material named, and the whole thing in writing with a 10-year posts and footings warranty, that is the whole business.
Insured, ticketed, and happy to prove it.
Insurance
Public liability to $20M
Certificate of currency available before we start.
Licensed
QBCC and NSW Fair Trading
Licensed both sides of the border, so a boundary that straddles the QLD to NSW line is still ours.
Guarantee
10-year posts & footings
In writing, with exclusions named.
Method
QBCC Licensed Fencing
Licence 0000000
Method
Colorbond & BlueScope Steel
Genuine materials, manufacturer warranty
Fencing is a licensed trade: in Queensland it needs a QBCC licence, and across the border a NSW Fair Trading licence. Postline Fencing Co. holds both and carries public liability insurance, so you are covered if anything goes wrong on site. Postline Fencing Co. is a composite reference site, so the licence numbers, ABN and contact details above are illustrative placeholders, not a real operator. On a live build these are the real, verifiable credentials of the business. Always ask to see the licence and the insurance before anyone digs a post hole.
A small crew, not a call centre.
Dale Forsythe
Founder & lead fencer
Twenty years on the tools across the Sunshine Coast, the last decade watching cheap fences lean over within a couple of seasons because the posts were knocked straight into clay. Started Postline in 2011 to set the footings properly, name the material, and put the whole thing in writing, every job.
“I would rather lose the job to an honest by-the-metre price than win it by knocking posts into the dirt. The fences I win on a quote that names the footing depth are the ones still standing straight in ten years.”
Reuben Marsh
Steel & gates lead
Colorbond, tubular and security fencing, and every gate we hang. Runs the automation work, because a heavy driveway gate on weak posts is a callback waiting to happen, and wires it to hand over working.
Tarnya Beck
Quotes & scheduling
Runs the free measures, builds the itemised quotes and books the digs. The reason you get a written quote within a business day and a call back when you say you want one.
What happens from first call to walk-through.
Free measure and set-out
We measure the boundary, check the soil and the slope, mark the line and talk through material and height, then put a written quote in your hands.
Itemised quote
The honest quote: metres, height and material, the post type and footing depth, gates, old-fence removal, and the boundary-cost note if it is a dividing fence.
Materials and start date
You sign off the material, the colour and the scope. We order, confirm the install window, and book the dig, working in any neighbour and council notices.
Remove and set the posts
We take down the old fence, cart it away, then dig footings to depth and set the posts in concrete. The footings cure before anything hangs off them.
Panels, rails and gates
Once the footings are set, the panels or palings and rails go on, raked to follow the slope, and the gates are hung, automated and tested where fitted.
Clean-up and handover
We clear the site, walk you around the finished fence, hand over the warranty in writing and any pool-compliance paperwork, and set up the gate remotes.
Want a fence quote you can actually read? Start by pricing it.
Tell us what you need. We’ll book a walkthrough and send a quote with the work itemised, not just a number.