Fence estimating software
- Estimate total
- $5,920.50
- Posts to set
- 21
- Materials, at your price
- $3,300.50
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. TakeoffDeck publishes no market rates and quotes no survey: the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
Fence estimating software earns its keep on the count, not the price. A fence run is measured in linear feet, but it is built from posts at a spacing, panels or pickets between them, gates counted each, and labor by the foot; the old fence comes out at its own price. Software that prices a fence as one number per foot hides the count that the customer will query and the crew will need. This guide is about what fence estimating software has to carry, and the free fence estimate tool on this site does the arithmetic with no account.
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Count the posts from the spacing, and let the count drive the materials
Posts are the run divided by the spacing plus one, and everything between them scales with the run: rails, pickets or panels, fixings, concrete. The tool derives the post count so the materials line is built from a number the crew will recognise on site, rather than from a per-foot allowance that is wrong on every short run and every corner.
Price gates each, never by the foot
A gate is hardware, a frame and an hour of hanging it straight, and none of that scales with the fence length. Estimating software that folds gates into the per-foot rate under-prices the two-gate job and over-prices the long run with none. The tool counts them and prices them at your installed price per gate.
Mark up the materials, price labor per foot, and put removal on its own line
The materials markup covers the supplier trip and the split post you replace; it belongs on materials rather than in the labor rate. Labor is priced per linear foot at your rate, and taking out the old fence and hauling it off is a separate figure, because the customer who keeps the old fence should see the price drop by exactly that.
Fence estimating software: common questions
What should fence estimating software include? A take-off in linear feet that derives the post count from the spacing, material cost per foot and per post with a markup, gates counted and priced each, labor per linear foot, removal as its own line, and the estimate saved against the customer and the job with the price per foot shown. A scheduling board is a different product.
Is there a free fence estimate calculator? The fence estimate tool on this site is free and needs no account: enter the run, the spacing, your post and material costs, your markup, the gates, your labor per foot and any removal, and it prices the job with the post count and the price per foot. Print it as it stands. TakeoffDeck Pro adds your company name and logo, a PDF with no watermark, and saving it against the customer.
How do I price a fence per linear foot? Build the estimate from the count first (posts, feet of panel, gates, labor per foot, removal) and let the tool divide the total by the run. A per-foot price that comes out of the count is defensible line by line; a per-foot price you chose first and backed into is the one the customer beats you down on.
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