Prices
Timber Fretwork Prices — Internal, External & Components
Fretwork is priced per lineal metre of opening, not per panel, because Heritage & Decorative Timber Products makes every panel to the width between your posts. The components are the exception — those are priced each. The list below is in three parts: internal patterns, external patterns, and the individual pieces that make an external panel up. Fretwork is pierced and open; a frieze panel is a patterned band with a defined height and is priced on its own list.
See the internal pattern before requesting a quote. Our free internal fretwork visualiser lets you compare 19 HFR/DFR designs at your opening width and height in millimetres. It previews proportions, not prices or final cutting dimensions. External panels and assembled FRI designs are separate ranges.
The price list
What it costs.
Including GST · excluding delivery · indicative only, subject to written quotation. Nothing is charged online — add what you need and send it to us.
Internal Fretwork
1 code| Code | Product | Size | Price | Add to quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFR1 | Victorian Hall Arch, 18 mm MDF With 65 x 32 mm Pine Fram | 65 x 32 mm | $239.62lineal metre |
Fretwork
20 codes| Code | Product | Size | Price | Add to quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR1ARCHBR | treated pine FR1 Arched Bottomrail 92 x 68 With Dental Both Sides | 92 x 68 mm | $544.81lineal metre | |
| FR1ASS | T.P Arched Fretwork 90 x 65 mm base rail Dental Mould Both Sides | 90 x 65 mm | $607.67lineal metre | |
| FR2ASS | treated pine FR2 Fretwork Assembled 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $221.02lineal metre | |
| FR3ASS | treated pine FR3 Fretwork Assembled 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $221.02lineal metre | |
| FR4AASSA-G | treated pine FR4 With Motif Assembled 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $176.80per lineal metre | |
| FR4AMA-G | Fretwork Motifs A–G 90 x 19 x 235 mm | 90 x 19 x 235 mm | $17.71each | |
| FR4ANASS | treated pine Straight FR4 Fretwork Assembled (NO Motif) 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $151.55lineal metre | |
| FR4ARCASSA-G | treated pine FR4 Arched With Motif Assembled | — | $458.00lineal metre | |
| FR4ARCDENTIL | LOSP Arched Fretwork 70 x 42 base rail Dental Mould ONE Side Only | 70 x 42 mm | $607.67per lineal metre | |
| FR4ARCHBR | treated pine FR4 DAR Arched base rail 42 x 42 mm With 19 x 12 mm Trench | 42 x 42 mm | $217.93lineal metre | |
| FR4ARCNASS | treated pine FR4 Arched NO Motif Assembled | — | $439.62per lineal metre | |
| FR5ASS | treated pine FR5 Fretwork Assembled 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $203.24lineal metre | |
| FR5SPA | treated pine FR5 Spindle 43 x 43 x 235 mm | 43 x 43 x 235 mm | $13.35each | |
| FR8ASS | treated pine FR8 Fretwork Assembled 300 mm overall | 300 mm | $197.50lineal metre | |
| FR9ASS | treated pine FR9 Fretwork Assembled | — | $607.67lineal metre | |
| FR10ASS | FR10 Fretwork Assembled treated pine | — | $853.80lineal metre | |
| FRI1 | FRI-1 Nouveau Assembled | Made to opening | $766.80lineal metre | |
| FRI3 | FRI-3 Sunburst Assembled | Made to opening | $390.00lineal metre | |
| FRI5 | FRI-5 Grapevine Assembled | Made to opening | $602.02lineal metre | |
| FRRA | 42 x 42 mm treated pine With 19 x 12 mm Trench | 42 x 42 mm | $19.10lineal metre |
Prices as held on our price list at 27 August 2026 and 27 October 2025.
In the shop
Add these to a quote.
The same ranges in the shop, photographed, with the sizes to choose from. Nothing is charged online — add what you need and send it to us as one quote request.
What you get
- Australian made — every product, made in our Bayswater workshop since 1984
- 25 year guarantee — on external LOSP H3 treated pine, above ground
- An answer within one business day — we reply to enquiries and quote requests
- In stock, or made in 1 to 4 weeks — some of the range is in stock; the rest is made to order
- Timber-profile matching — from a photograph, drawing or sample
Internal fretwork — hall arches
The internal patterns — the HFR and DFR ranges, plus the FRI1 Nouveau and FRI3 Sunburst designs — are hall arches. They span a doorway or the break between two rooms in a period house, and they are the single most effective thing you can do to a plain hallway. Nine internal codes are priced here: HFR1–HFR5, HFR8–HFR10 and HFR19.
They are made to size: you give us the width and the height, and the panel is made to it. Enter your required width in metres for an indicative price; the workshop confirms the finished opening and manufacture in your written quote.
Internal fretwork is built as an 18mm MDF insert in a clear pine frame — a different construction from the external range, and the reason the two price differently. MDF is the right material indoors: it is stable, it takes a paint finish perfectly flat, and it holds a fine pierced pattern that would be fragile in solid timber. But clear pine is untreated and MDF is not treated pine, so internal fretwork is interior only and our 25 year guarantee — which covers external LOSP H3 treated pine used above ground — does not apply to it, on either count.
External fretwork — verandah panels
The FR range is the outdoor fretwork that runs between verandah posts under the beam. Eight designs are priced: FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4, FR5, FR8, FR9 and FR10. There is no FR6 and no FR7 — the gap is real and identical in every source we hold, so the range is written out in full rather than shortened to "FR1 to FR10", which would promise ten.
Straight or arched. FR1 is an arched design. FR4 is offered both straight and arched, and both with and without motifs — four combinations in all, which is why it takes four lines on the price list.
Kit or assembled. FR4, FR5 and FR8 are sold either as a kit of parts or as a finished panel. Everything else is supplied assembled. An assembled external panel is made 300mm overall in depth.
Motifs. FR4 can be ordered with a decorative motif set into the panel, in seven designs, A to G.
Components, priced each
If you are repairing a panel rather than replacing it, the pieces are sold individually: trenched rail, fillet, FR4 slats, FR4 motifs A–G, FR5 spindles, and the FR8 squiggle motif and squiggle slat. The arched bottom rails for FR1 and FR4 are priced per lineal metre — the FR1 arched rail carries a dental mould on both faces, which is why it sits at the top of the component list.
How to measure fretwork
For an internal opening, preview the fretwork pattern at your measured width and height. The visualiser includes nineteen internal patterns; the priced codes on this page are a smaller selection. Ask for a quote if your chosen pattern is not listed. Our internal and external fretwork guide explains which material suits the location, and the fretwork preview guide explains how to compare the proportions.
Post-to-post width is the number that matters most: measure from the inside face of one post to the inside face of the next. Take it at more than one height, because old posts bow and the gap at the top is often not the gap lower down.
For an arched panel you need two more: the side drop, how far the timber comes down alongside each post, and the centre drop, how far it drops at the middle of the opening. Those two define the sweep of the curve.
For a straight panel: width, overall height, and photographs of the pattern.
And if you can get the original panel down safely, send it to us. Copying the real thing captures the size, the pattern, the thickness and every heritage quirk that a tape measure misses. It is the surest route to a match on a house that cannot be replaced.
Timber and guarantee
External fretwork is LOSP treated pine, H3 rated for outdoor use above ground — as external LOSP H3 treated pine used above ground, it carries our 25 year guarantee. Internal fretwork is MDF and is not covered. Prime external panels on all faces, working the primer into every pierced cut, before they go up.
Free quotes. Send a photograph, drawing or sample for matching work. Australian made, delivered Australia-wide. Call 03 9720 1996.
For your enquiry, include the pattern code, clear opening width and height, whether the panel is internal or external, and whether you want a complete panel or replacement components. Add the quantity and delivery postcode. For an arched panel, include both the side and centre drops so the workshop can confirm the shape.
Related pages
10 of 23 photographs and drawings in this gallery.
Product and ordering questions
How is fretwork priced?
By the lineal metre of opening, not per panel, because Heritage & Decorative Timber Products makes every panel to the width between your posts. The components are the exception - those are priced each. Enter your required width in metres; the workshop confirms manufacture in your written quote.
Is internal fretwork the same as external fretwork?
No. The external FR range is the outdoor fretwork that runs between verandah posts under the beam, and eight designs are priced: FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4, FR5, FR8, FR9 and FR10. There is no FR6 and no FR7. The internal patterns - the HFR and DFR ranges plus FRI1 Nouveau and FRI3 Sunburst - are hall arches, made to your width and height.
How do I measure fretwork?
Post-to-post width is the number that matters most: measure from the inside face of one post to the inside face of the next, and take it at more than one height, because old posts bow. For an arched panel you need two more - the side drop alongside each post, and the centre drop at the middle of the opening.