Steel palisade fencing prices, per metre

Palisade is priced per metre, supplied and installed, and the height of the pales drives the price more than anything else:

A 1.2 m fence suits a front boundary that marks the line more than it keeps people out. At 1.8 m, palisade becomes a real security fence, and 2.4 m is for boundaries that need to be hard to climb. Palisade between brick or concrete pillars costs more a metre because of the pillars.

Weld mesh is the economical choice for long runs and back and side boundaries. ClearVu-type high-security mesh, with its very small openings, is far harder to climb or cut, and it costs about as much as mid-height palisade. Our weld mesh page compares the two in more detail.

• Steel pedestrian gate: R2 500–R6 000 (Completo)
• ClearVu-type panel kit (1.8 × 2.5 m), in shops: about R4 600 (Takealot)
• Galvanised welded mesh roll (1.8 × 30 m, 50 × 50 × 2 mm), in shops: about R4 880 (Takealot)

Shop prices are for materials only. They don't include posts, concrete, fixings, delivery or the labour of setting posts plumb and in line, which is where most of the work in a fence is.

Multiply the length by the price per metre for the height you want, then add gates. A 30 m run of 1.8 m palisade, for example, is thirty times the 1.8 m price per metre in the table above, before any gate or removal.

Measure along the line the fence will actually take, not the stand's length on paper, and include the street front, the sides and the back separately: they often deserve different fences. A palisade street front with weld mesh along the sides and back is a common way to put the money where it shows and where it matters.

• Height, as the tables show.
• Length. Longer runs usually cost less a metre, because setting up is spread over more fence.
• The ground. Rock, slopes and steps take more time; a sloping site is stepped or raked, and both take more work than a flat line.
• What's there now. Taking out an old fence, wall or footings adds labour and removal.
• Pillars and a wall. Steel between pillars, or on top of an existing wall, is priced differently from a free-standing run.
• Gates. Pedestrian and driveway gates, and whether a driveway gate will be motorised later.
• The finish. Galvanised, painted or powder-coated steel, and the pale's top.
• Add-ons. Electric fence brackets on top, now or later, so the posts can carry them.

Not every fencing job is a new boundary. Straightening or replacing a few bent pales, re-setting a post a car has pushed over, re-hanging a gate that drags, or closing a gap after a wall came down are priced as jobs, after we've seen them, rather than by the metre. Where you already have the materials, the labour-only figure in the table above gives a feel for the work involved, though setting posts properly is the same job whoever bought the steel.

When you compare quotes, check each one covers the same things: the height and type of fence, the number of metres, the posts and their spacing, the gates, removal of anything old, the finish, and making good afterwards. A low price per metre that leaves out gates or removal isn't a low price. Our steel fencing page explains how we install palisade, and repairs come with our six-month guarantee on our repairs.

These are typical market prices from published South African cost guides and shops, checked October 2026. They are the market's prices, not ours.

• ProCompare: Palisade fence prices
• ProCompare: Fence prices
• ProCompare: ClearVu fence prices
• Completo: Fence installation costs
• Kandua: Palisade fencing prices
• LocalPros: Palisade fencing pricing
• Takealot: Takealot listings

Your exact price is set in a free quote before any work starts. No call-out fee when we do the work. If no work is done, a R650 call-out fee applies.