Pricing
Starting prices for all six fence types, and a straight answer on what moves them. Every estimate is line-itemed — footage, materials, gates, tear-out, total.
What a fence costs, by type.
Starting prices per linear foot on a standard residential run. What you actually pay depends on the yard, not on a price list — which is why the estimate is free and done on site.
Cedar Privacy
Six-foot dog-ear or board-on-board. Western red cedar, no green treated pine unless you ask for it.
See specs & pricingVinyl
White or tan privacy panels in a steel-reinforced bottom rail. Nothing to stain, nothing to replace.
See specs & pricingChain Link
Galvanized or black vinyl-coated, 4 to 6 foot. The cheapest way to close a yard, done right.
See specs & pricingAluminum & Ornamental
Powder-coated black pickets, pool-code spacing available. Looks like wrought iron, doesn't rust like it.
See specs & pricingFarm & Field
Woven wire, high-tensile, split rail and board fence. Line runs measured off the deed, not off the tree line.
See specs & pricingCommercial & Multi-Family
Dumpster enclosures, ball fields, security fence and access gates. Scheduled around your operation.
See specs & pricingSix materials, one crew, one set of install standards.
Get my free estimateWhat moves the number.
Six things change a fence price more than the material on the label does. All six get measured before you see a total.
Length.
Everything scales off linear feet. It is the first thing measured and the largest single line on the estimate.
Height and style.
Six-foot privacy costs more than four-foot. Board-on-board costs more than dog-ear. Same wood, different number.
Material.
Chain link starts at $14 a foot and aluminum ornamental at $42 — a three-to-one spread across the same run of yard.
Gates.
Walk gates and double drive gates are priced apart from the run. Anything near a pool gets self-closing hinges; doubles get a drop rod.
Terrain and access.
Slope, rock, tree roots and a back yard a truck cannot reach all cost time on site, and time is most of what a fence price is.
Tear-out.
Pulling an old fence, filling the holes and hauling it off is a line item, not a surprise. Posts come out, holes get filled.
What the estimate includes
- Footage measured on site, off a string line
- Materials, itemized
- Every gate named separately
- Tear-out and disposal where there is an old fence
- Posts set three feet down in concrete, below the Erie frost line
- PA One Call utility locates before any digging
- The total
It is good for 30 days, and there is no deposit to see it.
Why there is no price calculator here
Two hundred feet of six-foot cedar on a flat, clear lot and two hundred feet on a slope with a stone wall in the middle of it are not the same job, and no calculator can tell them apart. A number given without seeing the yard is a guess, and the guess is always the one that goes up later.
So the estimate happens on site. The owner measures it, you get it in writing, and the number on the paper is the number.
Most residential jobs run two to three days to install. Typical lead time is three to four weeks in season, less in the fall.
Get the real number.
Free on-site estimate, usually same week. No deposit, no follow-up calls you didn't ask for.