Fence post and panel repair quotes that price the dig, not just the post. Free, no signup.
Presets are editable starting points. Change any number to match your job.
Fence repair quotes die on a flat per-post number. A $100-a-post promise sounds fine until the old concrete footing, the bags of concrete, the panel re-hang, and the drive all get priced at zero. Start with your bar (75), profit margin percent (20), minimum trip fee ($150), and daily take-home goal ($600). Pick a repair preset: Post reset, Post replace, Panel re-hang, or Gate rehang, each filling post count, post cost, dig minutes, bags, and panels as editable starting points. The leaks card adds the old-footing dig-out toggle (plus 25 minutes per post), a rocky-soil toggle (plus 15 minutes per post), extra materials, round-trip drive and miles, vehicle cost, helper hours and pay, and a dump fee. Results show the line-item breakdown, the recommended quote (true cost plus margin, never below the minimum trip fee, rounded up to $25), the per-post price, and your effective rate against your bar. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY, with leak notes naming the dig-out, drive, and concrete leaks. The gut check grades your instinct price; the day planner turns your goal into repairs. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Post reset preset at a $75 bar with 20 percent margin: 3 posts times 45 dig minutes plus the 25-minute old-footing dig-out equals 210 minutes, or 3.5 hours of labor valued at $75, which is $262.50. Drive is 40 round-trip minutes, or 0.67 hours at $75, which is $50. Concrete is 3 posts times 2 bags at $6.50 equals $39. Vehicle is 30 miles at $0.67 equals $20.10. True cost is $262.50 plus $50 plus $39 plus $20.10 equals $371.60. Recommended quote is max(150, 371.60 times 1.20) rounded up to $25 equals $450, or $150 per post. Effective rate is ($450 minus $59.10) divided by 4.17 committed hours equals $93.82 per hour, which clears the bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $400 gut quote would pay $81.82 per hour, leave $50 on the table, and fall short of the $450 the math says the repair is worth. The day planner turns $78.40 of profit per repair into 7.7 repairs and about 32 hours for a $600 day, and flags the over-10-hour day: raise the quote, not the hours.
Why does digging out the old footing get its own toggle?
Because it adds 25 minutes per post that flat quotes never include, and it is the heaviest physical part of the job. Turning it off when the ground is clear is honest; leaving it out when it is not is charity.
When does the minimum trip fee decide the quote?
Small jobs like one post near home can cost less than $150 to run. The minimum fee holds the quote up so the trip, the setup, and the dig are still worth it.
What does the drive-beats-work-time note mean?
The tool fires it when drive hours exceed work hours. The trip to the job is costing more than the job itself, and either the quote or the route needs to change.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean?
Your effective rate lands between 80 and 100 percent of your bar. Dig-out time, drive, or concrete is usually the leak, and the notes name which one.
Why round the quote up to $25?
Clean numbers close jobs, and the rounding protects the margin against the things you cannot measure on site. The effective rate is graded against your bar after rounding.