Material Cost Comparison
Do you think that wooden fencing is cheaper? Well, this may be true for just your initial installation, but it's also true that the maintenance costs for wooden fencing are significantly higher than maintenance costs for non wooden fencing materials, and they require replacement sooner. With the longest warranty on the market, Moduline fencing made from NZ Steel's COLORSTEEL gives the smallest maintenance and longest lifetime to replacement of all materials. (Wooden fencing doesn't come with a warranty per se, so we have estimated the life to replacement.) Our calculations below show how this plays out over time.
| Cost comparison for a 30m 1.8 high fence over 40 years | Wooden | Wooden | Aluminium | Colorsteel |
| Source | Woodmart | paling fence | web equivalent | Moduline |
| Quality | average | high | high | high |
| Install cost - new fence | ||||
| Fence product | 2,452 | 3,000 | 3,100 | 3,660 |
| Delivery | 300 | incl. | incl. | incl. |
| Paint | 204 | 204 | n/a | n/a |
| Labour | 180 | 180 | n/a | n/a |
| Installation | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| Total install | 6,136 | 6,384 | 6,100 | 6,660 |
| Typical Replacement Frequency in years | 15 | 15 | 10 | 25 |
| (based on warranty where available) | ||||
| Maintenance | ||||
| Type | re-paint | re-paint | wash | wash |
| Frequency (years) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Materials | 204 | 204 | - | - |
| Labour | 180 | 180 | 75 | 75 |
| Total | 384 | 384 | 75 | 75 |
| CPI inflation | 4% | |||
| Total Cost of Ownership | 12,895 | 13,356 | 15,171 | 9,443 |
| in today's dollars, if paid all up front, ex gst |
Please treat these figures as illustrative, and remember it's always best to do your own research.
Having said that, we have sought actual quotes and prices and warranties from publicly available information. At the time of writing, we feel that this is a reasonable assessment.
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