St. Louis, MO
FENCING ESTIMATING.

## Fencing Estimates in St. Louis Move Fast or Move On St. Louis homeowners get multiple bids. If you're hand-typing line items the night after a walkthrough, you're losing jobs to contractors who sent a polished number while still in the driveway. Estimate.Pro gets you from site walkthrough to a sendable bid in a median of 8 minutes. No credit card to start. No platform fee on Pro+ plans. --- ## What Makes Fencing Estimating Different in St. Louis **Clay-heavy soils change your post depth math.** Much of St. Louis sits on expansive clay soils — particularly in South City, Florissant, and parts of St. Charles County. Post holes that work in sandy or loam soil can heave or lean inside two winters here. Your estimate needs to reflect 42-inch minimum depth for frost line, appropriate concrete volume per hole, and the extra labor that comes with augering through dense clay. Estimate.Pro lets you save a St. Louis-specific post-hole line item in your material cost workspace so you're not recalculating it job by job. **Lot-line fencing requires a survey check.** St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis treat fence permits differently. The City of St. Louis requires a building permit for any fence over 4 feet in front yards and 6 feet in rear or side yards. St. Louis County municipalities — Chesterfield, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, and others — each run their own permit desks with their own setback rules. Scope-of-work notes in your bid should flag the permit requirement and who pulls it. Estimate.Pro's AI scope builder includes a permit line by default so it doesn't fall through the cracks. **HOA documentation adds a scope item.** Large planned developments — Wildwood, Lake Saint Louis, O'Fallon subdivisions — often require HOA approval before a permit is issued. That adds a pre-construction review step. Build that administrative time into your estimate or eat it. **Wood vs. vinyl pricing swings hard.** Cedar availability through St. Louis lumber yards fluctuates with Midwest supply chains. If you're pricing a 200-linear-foot cedar privacy fence today and sending the bid next week, the number can already be stale. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you update unit costs in one place and reprice across all open bids. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Fence Contractors **1. Walk the property.** Use AR measurement on supported devices to capture linear footage directly on-site. On devices without AR support, camera and photo measurements are marked as estimates so you know which numbers to verify. **2. Generate the scope.** The AI scope builder outputs a line-item scope of work — post holes, concrete, panels or pickets, cap rail, gates, hardware, demolition of existing fence if applicable, and permit allowance. Adjust any line before sending. **3. Price it.** Your saved material cost workspace holds your supplier pricing for pressure-treated lumber, vinyl panels, chain link, ornamental iron, and hardware. Labor rates default to St. Louis metro averages and are fully editable. **4. Send it.** The finished estimate goes out as a professional PDF. On Elite, you connect Stripe and collect a deposit on the spot. --- ## Pricing - **Free** — no credit card, no expiration, 3% Stripe fee on collected payments - **Pro — $39/seat/month** — $0 platform fee, full material cost workspace - **Elite — $79/seat/month** — Stripe Connect invoicing, export integrations - **Crew — $399/month flat** — entire crew, unlimited seats A single won job at $4,000 — a standard 150-linear-foot privacy fence in St. Louis — covers a year of Pro. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades on the same platform. If you also pour concrete footings, build decks, or do gate automation installs, those estimates live in the same account. Fence contractors in St. Louis are competing against regional franchise operators who have estimating infrastructure. This is yours.