So, fences are expensive

[Bernadine]

We're looking to get something pretty simple, like the pic below, with wire behind it to keep the dogs in.  We have an acre, we're fencing about 2/3 of it, and we're looking at close to $4,000.  Damn!

[snipsnsnails]

Dang, that does seem pricy. About 4 years ago, we were quoted $4500 for fencing an acre with a fence like this...


I think the labor cost is the part that's pricy.

[Mrs. ChanandlerBong]

We have 320 ft of fence line. On a property shape that sounds an awful lot like what toepick lives across from. Our current fence is over 30 years old and dh keeps having to fix sections of it. We were quoted $15,000 3 years ago for a cedar replacement. Even the white prefab stuff was expensive.

So Dh keeps fixing the fence and we pray it holds up until we can afford to replace it.

[Doctorblue]

That actually sounds like a great price. I live in LCOL and was quoted $1200 for 64 feet of six foot privacy fencing.

[jaycee]

We were so hesitant due the price, but we put in our fence a year ago and we just love it! The dog and kids are so happy to be back there without me breathing down their throats.

[Bernadine]

My sister's bf is going to do it, which should keep labor costs down, thank god. But lumber is expensive!

[thinkofthesoldiers]

That isn't a bad price, but that's a bad fence.

[daisybuchannan]

Our backyard is small, and our fence was 5,000 two years ago. Six foot privacy with lattice top on two sides, regular 4 ft picket on one.

I think that's a good price!

[peachykate]

I know. In our old house we only had to fence in one side with chain link and it was a grand.

We have the same fence you are looking at now, apparently the town put it in since our house backs up to a park. It's clearly not the most glamorous fence but it does the job.

[nomad100]

We had a 72 foot section of 6 foot privacy fence replaced last summer and it was around $1000. But since we didn't have the time or patience to do it ourselves, it was worth it.

[jaylea]

It's the labor cost. We are going to fence in our yard, but dedicate a weekend, beer and a BBQ for the helpers to the cause.

[snickers]

We just wanted to extend our fence 8 feet and it is $1000!

[Deleted]

My H and his dad did our backyard ( less than half an acre ) themselves. They rented a hole digger machine thing ( the kind you ride) and bought all of the fencing and made 4 or 5 trips to HD to pick it up. It took them 3 weeks. It cost like a 1000.00 total for white vinyl.

I would pay the 4K. Seriously.

[VillainV]

Apr 22, 2014 7:23:53 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

We had a 72 foot section of 6 foot privacy fence replaced last summer and it was around $1000. But since we didn't have the time or patience to do it ourselves, it was worth it.

We fenced a similar amount (maybe 70-80 feet) and had a small gate installed, and paid $2000. The labor was the expensive part (digging the post holes and filling with concrete).

[sake]

Apr 22, 2014 8:09:05 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

My H and his dad did our backyard ( less than half an acre ) themselves. They rented a hole digger machine thing ( the kind you ride) and bought all of the fencing and made 4 or 5 trips to HD to pick it up. It took them 3 weeks. It cost like a 1000.00 total for white vinyl.

I would pay the 4K. Seriously.

How tall is your fence? We would love to have a white vinyl fence, but we anticipated the cost to be much more than 1k.
My uncle is a farmer, so he has all the post hole diggers etc, and will help us install... We don't really care if it takes weeks, we just don't want to shell out thousands and thousands 

[cep1976]

Apr 22, 2014 8:06:26 GMT -5 snickers said:

We just wanted to extend our fence 8 feet and it is $1000!

There's often some overhead cost built in with smaller jobs. We just had a 9' section of fence done (replacing the only part of the yard that had chain link), which had a gate in the middle of it, and added a gate to the opposite side of the yard as well and it was about $1000. And that was the lowest estimate by far, using higher quality materials (cedar instead of pressure treated). The guy told us there is a surcharge on smaller jobs, everyone does it, but most don't tell you they're doing it, because otherwise taking on a job of that size would make no sense for them because they'd make practically nothing on it.

[snickers]

Apr 22, 2014 8:31:41 GMT -5 cep1976 said:

Apr 22, 2014 8:06:26 GMT -5 snickers said:

We just wanted to extend our fence 8 feet and it is $1000!

There's often some overhead cost built in with smaller jobs. We just had a 9' section of fence done (replacing the only part of the yard that had chain link), which had a gate in the middle of it, and added a gate to the opposite side of the yard as well and it was about $1000. And that was the lowest estimate by far, using higher quality materials (cedar instead of pressure treated). The guy told us there is a surcharge on smaller jobs, everyone does it, but most don't tell you they're doing it, because otherwise taking on a job of that size would make no sense for them because they'd make practically nothing on it.

That makes sense, but it totally sucks! I wish we were handy and could do it ourselves!

[bittybomb]

My husband, who may be the least handy man in the world, installed our fence with the help of a friend. Its held up quite well in the last 5 years. Saved us a ton, and it took them probably four hours each day (one day for each of 2 sides). But, we fenced only our backyard and our property is maybe a 1/4 acre - lol.

[Deleted]

Apr 22, 2014 8:25:46 GMT -5 sake said:

Apr 22, 2014 8:09:05 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

My H and his dad did our backyard ( less than half an acre ) themselves. They rented a hole digger machine thing ( the kind you ride) and bought all of the fencing and made 4 or 5 trips to HD to pick it up. It took them 3 weeks. It cost like a 1000.00 total for white vinyl.

I would pay the 4K. Seriously.

How tall is your fence? We would love to have a white vinyl fence, but we anticipated the cost to be much more than 1k.
My uncle is a farmer, so he has all the post hole diggers etc, and will help us install... We don't really care if it takes weeks, we just don't want to shell out thousands and thousands 

Privacy fence on all but one small portion ( it would have blocked the sun from our in law apartment). We bought the fence on sale with a coupon from HD ( and I think we got cash back for opening a card or something). The actual fence materials were like 850.00 or so after all the savings. 

[Bernadine]

Apr 22, 2014 8:09:05 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

My H and his dad did our backyard ( less than half an acre ) themselves. They rented a hole digger machine thing ( the kind you ride) and bought all of the fencing and made 4 or 5 trips to HD to pick it up. It took them 3 weeks. It cost like a 1000.00 total for white vinyl.

I would pay the 4K. Seriously.

He said he could do it in two days, and I was like, SOLD!  Lol. 

My dad and J are replacing the shower in our master bathroom, and it's going on 3 months. 

[ilovecandy]

Lurker butting in. We fence in almost 2/3 of an acre. It as something like 600 feet of fence. The quote we had for a basic wood fence (waht we had to have) was $5500. We saved money and did it ourselves i want to say for around $3500 maybe $4k so that isn't a bad price at all.

[housegeek]

We did ours with welded wire and t posts. It cost us about $400 all included I believe, for 600 linear feet.

[frannyr]

Would you share a side with a neighbor? We did and it helped with the cost to share on the one side. Also we had a hot tub we didn't use and bartered with the owner to take that a lop off a huge amount of the total cost.

FWIW, having a fenced area for my dogs is a godsend!