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Fence material calculator
Estimate spans, posts, rails, and pickets from 1–20 straight fence segments in meters or feet. privacy-first-browser-tooling
Who it helps
- Round spans up per segment, remove only declared shared-corner duplicates, and apply 0–50% waste to pickets.
- Spans = sum of ceil(segment length ÷ maximum spacing); posts, rails, and pickets after waste are final whole counts. Optional cost = posts × post price + rails × rail price + pickets × picket price, with missing prices contributing zero. All prefilled values are editable starting examples, not universal construction standards; adjust them for the product, supplier requirements, and site conditions. To avoid meaningless zero results, lengths must be at least 0.001 m, areas at least 0.001 m², and volumes at least 0.000001 m³.
- 5 m and 3 m segments sharing one corner, 2 m spacing, 0.09 m pickets, 0.01 m gaps, two rails, and 10% waste gives 5 spans, 6 posts, 10 rails, and 88 pickets.
What you can enter
- 5 m and 3 m segments sharing one corner, 2 m spacing, 0.09 m pickets, 0.01 m gaps, two rails, and 10% waste gives 5 spans, 6 posts, 10 rails, and 88 pickets.
- Spans = sum of ceil(segment length ÷ maximum spacing); posts, rails, and pickets after waste are final whole counts. Opt
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Spans = sum of ceil(segment length ÷ maximum spacing); posts, rails, and pickets after waste are final whole counts. Optional cost = posts × post price + rails × rail price + pickets × picket price, with missing prices contributing zero. All prefilled values are editable starting examples, not universal construction standards; adjust them for the product, supplier requirements, and site conditions. To avoid meaningless zero results, lengths must be at least 0.001 m, areas at least 0.001 m², and volumes at least 0.000001 m³. privacy-first-browser-tooling
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FAQ
Fence material calculator: How should segments be entered?
Enter 1–20 straight infill lengths between ends, corners, or gate posts, plus maximum post spacing, picket width and gap, rails per span, declared shared corners, and 0–50% waste. Lengths may be displayed in meters or feet.
Fence material calculator: How are quantities and cost calculated?
Each segment span count is rounded up. Posts remove only declared shared corners; rails = spans × rails per span; pickets are rounded up after waste. Optional cost = final whole posts × post price + rails × rail price + pickets × picket price. A missing price omits that line and contributes zero to the total.
Fence material calculator: What work is outside this estimate?
It estimates straight infill only and does not design stepped slopes, foundations, wind loads, gates, hardware, post types, structural safety, setbacks, or code compliance. Impossible spacing or excessive counts return an error. Confirm the panel system, corners, and gate posts with the supplier.
Fence material calculator: Are segments, prices, or results uploaded?
No. Segments, meter or foot measurements, waste, optional prices, and calculated counts stay local in the browser and are not uploaded or stored. Analytics does not receive dimensions, prices, or results.