Why we don’t post a price list
Fences are priced by the foot, installed: one rate that covers posts, concrete, rails, boards or panels, hardware and labor. The per-foot numbers you find online come from flat lots with a truck parked next to the work. Western North Carolina rarely gives you either.
The same 150 feet of fence can come back thousands of dollars apart depending on the slope, what’s under the grass, how many gates you want, whether there’s an old fence to take down, and how close a truck can get. A price quoted before anyone has seen your yard is either padded to be safe or trimmed to win the phone call. We’d rather look.
Pricing a privacy fence in particular? We’ve written up that side in more detail: How much does a privacy fence cost in Asheville?
Want a ballpark before we come out?
Draw your fence on a satellite map, gates and all, and our estimator will call you with a rough number.
Draw your fenceA ballpark, not a quote — the real price still takes a free visit.
What we measure before we put a number on it
This is the walk your salesman takes around the property, in the order it happens. Every step moves the price.
A privacy fence following the grade of an Asheville backyard. This is the kind of yard a national cost calculator has never seen.
1. The run
How far the fence goes, how many corners it turns, and how tall it needs to be. Footage sets the scale of everything else; every corner and every end is another post and more bracing. Height counts twice: a taller fence takes more material per foot and deeper posts to hold it.
3. What's under the grass
Every post needs a hole. Rock a foot down can mean core drilling or moving posts; roots, old footings and buried lines change the layout. Nobody can see it until the auger does, so we plan for it, and we tell you when the ground is the reason two quotes came back different.
5. What's there now
Taking down an existing fence and hauling it off is its own line item. Sheds, landscaping and property-line questions get settled before the price, not after.
2. The slope
On a grade, a fence either steps down the hill in level sections or racks to follow the ground. Both take more layout and cutting than a flat run, and steep stretches are sometimes built board by board instead of hung as panels. Slope is the biggest thing a contractor can’t price sight unseen.
4. The gates
How many, how wide, and what they carry. A walk gate and a double drive gate are different projects, and hardware adds up. Automatic gates and gate operators are their own line on the estimate.
6. Getting to it
How close a truck can park to the work. Materials carried by hand across a backyard, up steps or down a bank take longer to build with, and the price says so.
Material sets the starting point
Vinyl (PVC)
Costs more than wood up front and asks almost nothing of you afterward: no staining, no sealing, an occasional rinse with the hose.
Ornamental aluminum
Priced by the section and the style. Rackable panels follow a slope without stepping, which can save layout work on a hillside.
Chain link
Usually the most economical way to fence a large area. Height, wire gauge, galvanized or black vinyl-coated finish, and privacy slats each move the price.
Farm and deer fencing
Woven wire, board fence with wire backing, and deer fence, typically 8 ft. Priced by the run and the number of gates; a long run across pasture is a different job from a suburban yard.
Repair or replace?
As a general rule, if more than 30% of a fence needs repair, replacing it is the more cost-effective choice. Plenty of grey, tired-looking fences are still sound underneath, so we check the posts, rails and boards before anyone talks about tearing it out, and we tell you honestly which one yours is. We repair fences other companies built, too.
What the free estimate includes
We come to the property, measure the run, look at the slope and the ground, and talk through material, height and gates with you. Then you get a free estimate for that fence on that ground, not an average. Your salesman sees your job through from the first visit to the finished fence. If your address needs a permit, we handle the permitting. If you’re in an HOA, get their written approval on height, material and color before anything is ordered.
Fence cost questions, answered
Can you give me a price over the phone?
Is the estimate really free?
Why do fence quotes come back so far apart?
Do I need a permit for a fence in Asheville?
Does a taller fence cost more?
Get a real number for your yard
Asheville Fence Company has been building fences across Western North Carolina since 1966, from our yard on Smokey Park Highway in Candler. Call (828) 665-8900 or request a free estimate online, and we’ll come take a look. Or draw your fence on a satellite map and our estimator will call you.