Electric fence repairs in Brakpan

An alarm that keeps going off is the fence telling you its voltage has dropped somewhere, or that a gate is open. The usual reasons:

• Something touching the lines: grass, a branch, a creeper, or wind-blown rubbish caught on the wires.
• A broken or slack line shorting onto its neighbour or the bracket.
• Failed insulators, leaking a little at every bracket until the total trips the alarm.
• A gate contact that has worn, or a gate left open.
• A weak earth, which makes the whole fence read low.
• The backup battery, worn out, so the alarm sounds partway through a power cut.

What you can safely do: switch the fence off at the keypad, then look along the fence from a distance for anything touching it. Don't touch the wires and don't open the energiser. Our guide to an electric fence alarm that keeps going off goes through the checks in order.

On a long boundary, the energiser matters more than anywhere else. Two numbers decide it: the joules in each pulse, which hold the voltage up over distance and through leakage, and the zones, which split the fence so an alarm tells you where to look.

A small energiser on a long fence reads low and alarms at every bit of leakage; the cure is the right unit, not more sensitivity. We size it to the length, the number of lines and the zones, and every unit we fit is a type tested to IEC 60335-2-76, the standard both makers' manuals cite. More is on energisers.

• Check the battery twice a year, as Nemtek recommends.
• Keep the ground under the fence cut and branches trimmed back from the lines.
• Look along the fence every few weeks for cracked insulators, sagging lines and anything caught on it.
• Test the alarm by opening a gate with a contact on it: the keypad should show it.
• After a big storm, check that the energiser still has its lights and the fence still reads normally.

If a fence has gone a few years without attention, a service visit catches most of these at once. All our spare parts are genuine, and every repair carries our six-month guarantee on our repairs.

• Simple repairs (insulators, a broken wire) including call-out: R700–R1 400 (Kandua)
• Complex faults or a new energiser: R1 500–R5 000+ (Kandua)
• JVA Z13 (1 zone), in shops: about R3 370 (Takealot)
• 15 W siren, in shops: about R160 (Takealot)

These are the market's figures, not ours. Prices checked October 2026. With us, no call-out fee when we do the work. If no work is done, a R650 call-out fee applies. Your exact price is set in a free quote before any work starts.

For a new fence we walk the boundary, choose the lines, zones and energiser, and build it to the makers' rules, with warning signs, gates that open without a shock, and earth spikes kept away from other earth systems. Certified electric fence installer, and every new fence comes with its certificate. Selling a property with an electric fence needs one too: see electric fence certificates.

At a complex the perimeter fence is shared, so the body corporate or managing agent books the work and decides who holds the keypad codes and who gets the alarm. Tell us who that is when you book, and we'll arrange access and report back to them.

The 2011 Census counted 73 080 people over Brakpan's 183 km², and we work on fences all over it: house walls near the town centre, shared perimeters at complexes such as Helderwyk Extension 8, works and yards near Bosman Stadium and the N17, and homes in Tsakane and Langaville to the south. For the rest of what we do in town, see Brakpan.

Tell us the energiser's make and model, what the keypad shows and roughly how long the fence is; a photo of the energiser helps. Same-day repairs are part of the week in Brakpan when bookings allow, and the 24/7 emergency repairs across Gauteng cover a fence that won't stop alarming at night. No call-out fee when we do the work. If no work is done, a R650 call-out fee applies.