Fences and protective walls

Fence types

You can choose 3D panels, chain-link mesh, profiled steel sheet, timber pickets or a solid block wall. You enter the length, height, post spacing and number of corners. The system works out the posts with embedment and concrete, the infill, clamps or tension wire and the plinth boards. For a wall it works out the blocks and the strip footing.

Barbed wire and concertina

Several rows of barbed wire or a concertina (razor wire) can be added on post brackets. Until 2026-12-31 it is banned on a single- or two-family house plot in a city or town, and in the countryside it is allowed only on the part of the fence above 3 m (STR 2.02.09 item 65.4). From 2027 only the requirement that a fence must not be dangerous to people and animals remains (STR 2.02.12:2026 item 46). The system warns based on whether the plot is in a city.

Protective wall

A solid block wall is built on a strip footing. Up to 2 m high it is a Group I enclosure. Group II does not apply to a taller one, because the part above 2 m must be at least 80 % porous. So a taller solid wall needs a building permit everywhere. Sharp wire on top is porous, so it does not worsen the group.

Neighbours and permits

- A fence on the plot boundary needs the neighbour's consent (STR 1.05.01:2017 Annex 7 item 1.1).

- Closer than 1 m to the boundary, consent is needed if the fence has few openings: under 50 % with the shadow falling north, or under 25 % with the shadow falling east or west.

- A fence up to 2 m high is a Group I enclosure. A 2–5 m fence with a porous upper part is a Group II enclosure, and in a city it needs a permit.

- More than 1 m from the boundary no consent is needed. With the neighbour to the south the shadow does not fall on their plot, so no consent is needed even closer.

- On a house plot the fence may not cross the plot boundary (STR 2.02.09 item 65.1). A plinth must not dam rainwater from the neighbour's plot.

- On drained land fences are prohibited closer than 5 m to a ditch. On a shore the 5 m strip may not be fenced off. In a power line zone a metal fence needs the grid owner's approval.

- From 2027 fence foundations must be at least 3 m from water mains, 1.5 m from gravity sewers and 1 m from drainage.

- No norm for post embedment was found — the depth is set by the manufacturer or a structural engineer.