Wood privacy fence estimating with the right picket count

Picket counts are where wood bids go wrong: a few short per section and the crew is back at the store. FenceDraft counts pickets the way each style is actually built.

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Every style, counted its own way

Standard privacy: pickets counted to close the fence with no see-through gaps at any height.

Board-on-board: the overlap is counted its own way, not as standard pickets with extra.

Horizontal: boards on 6-foot centers, with a joint cover counted at every post.

Posts your way: wood posts or steel Postmaster posts, set in concrete, with the extra framing Postmaster needs counted.

Cap and trim offered only where the style takes it.

Concrete by the hole, one bag per post with more where a deep gate post needs it, because ground varies more than geometry.

Gates

Walk, double and drive gates with their hardware, and gate posts counted on their own.

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From the estimate to the truck

One estimate produces everything the job needs:

A customer proposal with your scope language, ready to sign online, with the deposit collected at signing.
A job cost sheet showing material, labor and margin.
A pull sheet the yard checks off on a phone.
A crew sheet in English and Spanish, with a dimensioned site plan and no dollar amounts.

Draw the fence over satellite imagery with property lines shown, or enter the footage by hand. Either way, the material count is the same.

Built by a fence contractor, for fence contractors

FenceDraft runs every estimate at Kustom Fence in New Braunfels, Texas, a 14-crew company that builds ranch, farm, King Ranch, cedar post, ornamental, chain link and wood fence across the Hill Country. Every formula was checked against real material loads on real jobs before it went into the product.

Bring your next wood privacy bid

Bring a job you’ve already bid. We’ll run it in FenceDraft and you can compare the material list against yours.

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