I built a fence this past summer, I live on a corner lot with a neighbor to the north and to the west of me. I knocked on the door and asked them, neighbor to the west was great more or less said just let me know what I owe you, north neighbor didn't speak english until after it was built.....weird.
I priced it out and realized that hiring it out worked out to cost about Material Cost x 2 roughly, so $2000 in material would mean roughly $2000 in labour. I got quotes in the $28-$35/ft range from contractors. I went to the Home Depot Do It Yourself workshop about Building Fences and had NEVER build one before took notes did some research and was confident enough to build it myself with some help my friends and my old man.
To make a short story long......Im too nice and only charged my neighbor to the just the cost of materials and never got even a thanks or a smile from the other neighbor. I also waited until Rona had a 15% off one item sale, they gave me 10% off the fence package, I also applied for a Rona Card and used that to save an extra 10% I believe. Building it on my own worked out to roughly $12-$13/ft.
If you do it yourself take the time to do you posts correctly and measure measure measure I spent 70% of my time ensuring they were straight and the rest was easy, I think my fence looks great and Im super proud of how well people tell me it looks.
Im done my ramble
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