Electric Fence Installation Port Elizabeth

What a properly installed fence does for you

Most break-ins start at the boundary. Somebody looks at the wall, decides it is easy, and comes over the top. An electric fence changes that decision before anyone touches it. The strands are visible from the street, the warning signs are on every stretch, and the energiser sounds the alarm the moment a wire is cut, shorted or pulled.

We install fences that do that job and keep doing it. That means the right energiser for the length of fence, brackets that suit your wall, stainless or aluminium wire that copes with sea air, and an earth that actually works in the sandy ground we have around the Bay.

When it is worth putting one in

• You have just moved in and the boundary walls have nothing on top

• There has been a break-in on your street or in your complex

• Your old fence is so tired that replacing it costs about the same as fixing it

• You run a yard, workshop or warehouse with stock behind a palisade

• Your insurer has asked for perimeter security before renewing

• You want the fence linked to your alarm or armed response

Wall-top or free-standing

Most homes in Port Elizabeth get a wall-top fence. Brackets are fixed to the top of the boundary wall and carry anywhere from four to twelve strands, angled inward or straight up depending on the wall and how much reach you want. It is neat, it does not take up any garden, and it suits the face-brick and plastered walls you see from Walmer to Lorraine.

Free-standing fences go up on their own posts. They are the usual choice for industrial sites, smallholdings and long boundaries where there is no wall to build on, and they are common out towards Bluewater Bay Industrial and Markman. We also fit fences along the top of palisade and clear-view fencing, which gives you the electric barrier without blocking the view.

Choosing the energiser

The energiser is the box that powers the fence and raises the alarm. Getting it right matters more than the number of strands. Too small and a long fence runs weak at the far end. Too basic and you lose zones, remote arming and the alarm outputs that let it talk to your security company.

We size the energiser to your fence length and how you want to use it. For most homes that means a single or two-zone unit with a battery backup, so the fence keeps running and keeps alarming through load shedding and power cuts. For larger properties we split the fence into zones so you know which side was touched.

Built for the coast

Port Elizabeth is hard on fencing. Salt air eats cheap wire and fittings, the wind throws branches and leaves onto the strands, and sandy soil makes a good earth harder to achieve than it looks. A fence that ignores any of that will start false alarming within a year.

So we use corrosion-resistant wire and fittings, we put in enough earth spikes for the ground on your property, and we cut back or work around vegetation that will blow into the fence. Homes near the beachfront in Summerstrand and Humewood get extra attention here, because that is where the salt does the most damage.

Linking it to your alarm and armed response

A fence that alarms with nobody listening only scares the person touching it. We connect the energiser to your existing alarm panel or straight to your armed response provider, so a cut wire at 2am is a signal on somebody's screen, not just a siren.

If you want to arm and disarm from your phone or a keyring remote, we can set that up too. It makes a real difference for people who come and go late at night and do not want to walk to a keypad in the garage.

Legal from day one

Every fence installed in South Africa since 1 October 2012 needs an electric fence system certificate of compliance, and it has to be issued by a registered installer. We are registered, so the certificate comes with the job. Signs, wire heights, gate sections and earthing are all built to SANS 10222-3 from the start, and you do not need to bring anybody else in afterwards. There is more on what the certificate covers under electric fence compliance certificates.

Already have a fence?

If the fence is mostly sound but alarming for no reason, running weak or partly dead, it usually needs a repair, not a new install. Our electric fence repair service covers that, and we will tell you honestly which one makes sense once we have tested it.