Corner fence posts vs survey peg

[Tok]

Hi All,

A question: how do I go about digging a post hole and planting a corner property post, if you're not supposed to interfere with council survey pegs? Theoretically, the corner fence post would be directly centered where the survey peg is.

In practical terms, I'm planning to build a fence between my property and the adjoining rental property, by placing the fence just inside my own property line. I've read somewhere (here I think) that doing that means you don't have to go through all the drama of attempting to build a shared-cost fence with the neighbour etc ...

There's a fence built halfway up the property, a standard treated pine paling fence. My plan is to basically just continue that fence up to the front of the property.

I'm just not sure what to do at the corner of the property where the survey peg is embedded.

Any hints?

T

[felixe]

Sneak out in the middle of the night and remove the survey peg:eek:
Voila - problem solved:confused:
Will the council ever check? I recently rebuilt a new front fence and just dug post holes where the old ones were. No-one ever asked otherwise.

[DavidG]

Centre the post hole digger over the survey peg then dig the hole.
Put a nail in the top of the post as the survey marker.

[bitingmidge]

So who says they are council survey pegs?

There are penalties for interfering with permanent marks, but a survey peg generally isn't one of those.

Run a stringline over the mark in line with your boundary and measure a fixed distance out from it, say two metres or so, or better still on the edge of the kerb.

Make a new mark and measure the offset. (using a plumb bob)

Build your fence.

Run a stringline from your new mark back along the boundary line, and measure back to the original location. Stick a clout in the fencepost, and Robert is your mother's brother.

Check that there isn't a permanent mark in the kerb first, usually a nail fired in. There often is.

Cheers,

P

[ian]

A question: how do I go about digging a post hole and planting a corner property post, if you're not supposed to interfere with council survey pegs? Theoretically, the corner fence post would be directly centered where the survey peg is.

what you do is bang in two extra pegs so that the extra pegs (or more correctly the nails in them tha pegs) forms a straight line with the corner peg. Measure the off-set, kick out the corner post, dig your hole, plant your post, measure back from the two off-set pegs, bang in a new gal nail, call it quits.
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In practical terms, I'm planning to build a fence between my property and the adjoining rental property, by placing the fence just inside my own property line. I've read somewhere (here I think) that doing that means you don't have to go through all the drama of attempting to build a shared-cost fence with the neighbour etc ...

a shared fence is only a hassle if you want to share the cost. If you're paying 100% just put in so that it splits the property line.

ian

[Barry_White]

Survey pegs are put in by surveyers and usually if you are going to do an extension on your house later on and the survey pegs aren't visible the council will make you have a survey done just to make sure you are building the extension on your property and the survey will be at your cost any way.

[ernknot]

I'm with DavidG. That way you keep the location of the original position of the survey peg. Usually these pegs are stamped with a number which a reference point. You could also keep a couple of inches - ok 50mm - of the survey peg showing the numbers( if it has numbers) and drill a hole in the middle of your corner post and bung the bit of peg into it.

[Tok]

Thanks all!

Lo and Behold, the white peg doesn't have any markings whatsoever, other than a gal nail sticking out the top of it. The peg at the other end of the property line has the same.

Methinks I'll whack in the corner posts just inside my line. Before the concrete sets, I'll stick the peg into the 'crete right up against the post, in it's original position.

Surely no-one can complain about that!

Thanks again!

T