Build It Boring · Quote calculators
A fence ticket is a tape, a material, and a number you already know. This page does that arithmetic in the browser and hands you a range. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent.
Small crews still price a lot of this after the truck is parked. Feet of new fence, how tall, wood or chain link or vinyl or aluminum, a walk gate, maybe a drive gate, and whether the old one has to come out. The slope is the part you pad without writing it down. The ground box is that pad, where you can see it.
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Example rates only. They are not a market price and not a quote for your town. Type your own over the numbers in the box below the form.
The per-foot rate depends on the material you picked. Height is a multiplier on that rate, not a second price list. An 8-foot privacy fence is not an 6-foot fence with a taller story you can ignore, and a 4-foot picket-height run should not quietly cost the same per foot unless you set those factors equal.
Gates are counted, not measured. A walk gate and a drive gate each have their own flat fee. I kept them off the ground multiplier on purpose. The extra cost of slope or rock is in the panels, the posts, and the trench. The gate leaf is mostly the same hardware on a flat lot or a lumpy one. If your drive gates really do cost more on a hill, raise the drive-gate fee for that quote instead of pretending the whole ticket scales.
Removal uses its own per-foot rate, then the same ground factor as the new run. Leave the feet at zero when you're setting posts in open yard. If you're hauling the old fence off and the dumpster is a separate ticket, price that haul on the junk removal calculator rather than hiding it inside the fence rate.
The range is a percent under the middle and a percent over it. The example is 10 under and 15 over, because a "looks like a hundred feet" phone call is never exact. Narrow both if you already walked the line with a wheel. Widen the high side if you're quoting from a sketch on a napkin.
Don't open with "build me a fence quote calculator." You'll get a handsome page full of prices the model invented, and you'll spend the evening deleting them. Write your rates down first. Then tell Claude the rules, and tell it to ask when a rule is blank.
Build a single-page fence quote calculator I can preview in the browser. Do not invent prices, discounts, or materials. My business: [fence company and city] Who uses it: a homeowner who measured the run, or guessed it. What they enter: - linear feet of new fence - height: 4, 6, or 8 feet - material: wood privacy, chain link, vinyl, aluminum - number of walk gates and number of drive gates - feet of old fence to remove - ground: flat, sloped, or rocky Pricing rules. Replace every blank with my number. If a blank is still empty, ask me. Do not look up a typical price. - Per linear foot, before height and ground: wood $[ ], chain link $[ ], vinyl $[ ], aluminum $[ ] - Height multipliers: 4 ft [ ], 6 ft [ ], 8 ft [ ] - Walk gate $[ ] each. Drive gate $[ ] each. Do not apply the ground multiplier to gates. - Removal $[ ] per foot. Apply the ground multiplier to the new fence and the removal only. - Ground multipliers: flat [ ], slope [ ], rocky [ ] - Show a range [ ] percent under and [ ] percent over the total. - Minimum job $[ ], or no minimum if I say none. Output: - A low-to-high range plus a line-by-line breakdown. - A plain note that this is an estimate and the final price is confirmed after we see the line. - Easy to use on a phone. - Use only the rules above. - When you finish, list anything you were unsure how to handle.
That page is the first small piece. Saving the quote, following up, and getting paid come after you can trust the arithmetic. The $27 course walks that sequence one email a day. Day 4 is a calculator. You don't need a coding background to start.
No. The rates load as round examples so the math has something to multiply. They are not a market price. Replace them with what you actually charge before you text a range to anyone.
A form cannot see roots, rock, or an HOA that wants a different height. The low and high percents are the slack you already build into a quote you have not walked yet. Edit both.
No. Gates stay a flat fee per opening. Slope and rock are applied to the new run and to the tear-out, which is where the extra posts and digging actually show up.
Same idea, different ticket. Each one has its own example rates and its own prompt.