Concrete Walls for Cleveland, Thornlands and Wellington Point

With 12 jobs on our records, Thornlands is one of the busiest suburbs we work in anywhere in South East Queensland. Those jobs take in stacked stone, standard precast and infill fences, so it's a good suburb for seeing how differently the same system can look from one house to the next.

One Thornlands photo is on this page, and Cleveland's jobs supply the rest.

Cleveland sits on the western shore of Moreton Bay, and Wellington Point is surrounded by it on three sides. Salt air there is hard on exposed steel and timber. Our panels are solid concrete, and the galvanised steel at the heart of each column is encased too, so there's no bare metal facing the weather.

Cleveland's seven jobs cover every wall type we make, and nine photos from them are in our gallery, more than from any other Redlands suburb. Wellington Point's five jobs are all standard precast walls.

If your block looks toward the water, decide early whether you want a solid wall or an open one. The Superior Infill Collection™ keeps the bottom metre in concrete and opens up the section above with wrought iron, metal slats or balustrades, so you keep the view and still have a defined boundary.

For a plainer look, the Superior Signature Collection™ gives you smooth precast panels profiled on both sides, so the street and the neighbour see the same finish. It suits a house with clean, contemporary lines, and it can be painted, including in two tones.

The Superior Stone Collection™ is stacked stone whose texture was taken from a stone wall hand-built in 19th-century Spain, with an acid stain that leaves the colour varying the way natural stone does. Stacked stone appears in both the Thornlands and Cleveland records.

Upkeep is modest either way. A painted wall needs fresh paint 10 to 15 years after it goes up, and the odd wash before then.

On the street frontage, pick a height that gives privacy without hiding the house. Close to the water the question flips at the back of the block, where the outlook is often the reason you bought there. A solid wall on the street side and an infill fence facing the bay is one way to have both.

All three suburbs here are in Redland City Council's area, so the council's planning scheme is the one to check, along with any pool barrier rules if the fence will enclose a pool.