Precast Concrete Fence Designs

Concrete fence design ideas, and how each one is built

Most people arrive here knowing roughly how they want the boundary to look and not much about what sits behind the finish. The photos above come from real installations across South East Queensland, and every one of them is one of three systems. Knowing which system creates which look makes it far easier to picture the result on your own block.

Precast concrete walls: the clean, solid boundary

This is the design most people picture when they think of a concrete fence: a solid, unbroken wall with a defined header beam along the top. The detail that matters is that the header beam profile is cast into both faces, so the wall reads as finished from your side and from your neighbour's. There is no back of the fence. Panels are cast from Holcim 50MPa concrete at our Yatala factory, set into steel-cored columns, and craned into place. Left as a raw concrete finish it suits a modern, minimal look. Painted, it can be matched to render, brickwork or the house itself. See the precast concrete wall specifications.

Stacked stone: the look of hand-laid stone

If you want texture rather than a flat face, this is the design to look at. The moulds were taken from a genuine stone wall in Spain, hand-laid by stone masons in the 19th century, so the panels carry the shape and shadow of individual stones rather than a repeating stamped pattern. Finished with acid stain, the colour varies across the wall the way real stone does, which is what stops a cast panel looking cast. It suits Queenslanders, acreage entries and anywhere a plain wall would feel too severe. See the stacked stone range.

Infill panels: privacy at the base, light above

A solid wall is not always the right answer. Where you want to keep a view, or keep a front yard from feeling closed in, infill panels pair 2-metre concrete columns with a 1-metre concrete base panel and leave the section above open. That gap can be filled with wrought iron, metal slats, balustrade or timber. You get the security and the street noise buffer at ground level while the sightlines stay open, which is why it is a common choice for front boundaries and pool surrounds. See how infill panels are configured.

Making the design yours

Within any of the three systems you can change the column caps, paint in one tone or two, add feature panels at the entry, or use acid stain instead of paint. Height, panel length and the transition down a sloping block all get set to your site rather than to a standard kit, because the panels are made to order rather than pulled off a shelf.

Whichever design you choose, the build underneath is the same: 50MPa concrete that typically tests at 56MPa, reinforced through the pour rather than at the surface, backed by a 15-year structural guarantee against a material with a potential lifespan beyond 100 years. We have completed 435 installations across 169 South East Queensland suburbs, so there is a good chance we have built in your suburb already and can point you at one to drive past before you decide.