Chain link is the fence people want a number on fast. It’s a practical purchase: keep the dog in, mark the line, secure the lot. The calculator above prices it the way you sell it: length times a per-foot rate by height.
How chain link pricing works
The example rates ($16 per linear foot at 4 ft, $19 at 5 ft, $23 at 6 ft) are placeholders for installed galvanized fabric on standard residential framework. Your real rate depends on your material costs and your market. Things that move a chain link quote:
- Fabric and framework gauge. Light residential fabric and heavier commercial spec are different jobs wearing the same name. Price them as different rates, not the same rate with a shrug.
- Vinyl-coated fabric. Black or green coated chain link costs more in material than bare galvanized. If you sell both, they should be separate numbers.
- Terminal posts. Ends, corners, and gate posts are bigger pipe, more concrete, and fittings. A run with six corners is not the same as a straight shot of equal length.
- Tear-out and haul. Old fabric rolls up easy; old posts set in concrete don’t. The example add-on uses $4 per linear foot plus a flat haul-away.
A chain-link sanity check
Fencing three sides of a 50 by 100 foot backyard is roughly 200 linear feet. At the example 4 ft rate of $16 that’s $3,200 before gates. Most residential chain link jobs also carry at least one walk gate, priced each, not per foot.
Quote it with your own rates
These are example numbers on a demo. In PriceDesk, the same calculator runs your rates at your heights, with your gate prices and your add-ons, from your phone, in the truck. Free for 14 days, no credit card, and your rates stay yours.
For the method behind the numbers, read how to price a fence job.