Reference sheet C-1 — estimating
Material, height, footage, tear-out, gates, and how hard your backyard is to get into. Those six things make up the estimate — and only one is visible from the street.
We do not publish per-foot pricing, and you should be wary of anyone who does. The same hundred feet of cedar fence can differ by half again depending on whether an old fence has to come out, whether a truck can reach the backyard, how many corners the run turns, and what the ground is like once the auger is in it.
Instead, you get a written estimate after someone walks the line with you, itemized so you can see what each part costs — fence, tear-out, gates, and anything the site itself adds. It's free, and there's no deposit to produce it.
If you are collecting numbers to compare, ask every contractor to break the estimate out the same way. A single lump sum is not comparable to anything.
Cost is quoted per linear foot, but corners, direction changes, and short runs all cost more per foot than one long straight line. A square backyard prices better than a lot with jogs in it.
Cheapest to dearest: chain link, treated pine, cedar, vinyl, ornamental iron, welded pipe. The spread on the same run is several times over, not a few percent.
Six feet is standard. Taller costs more than the extra material suggests — longer posts, deeper footings, and past seven feet you are into Permit guide.
Removing and hauling an old fence is its own line; old posts in concrete are the slow part. If a crew cannot get equipment into the backyard, everything is carried. Caliche slows post holes. Slope means stepping or racking.
Every gate is a premium, and a Driveway gates is a different order of cost again — frame, hardware, columns, and the Gate operators if it is powered.
We do not quote without measuring; we do not take a deposit to give you a number, and we do not give a phone price that changes once we see the property.