Fencing enquiries arrive in two moods. The first is the morning after a storm, with two panels flat in the garden and a dog that has found the gap, and that customer wants someone this week. The second is a Sunday in March, measuring tape in hand, pricing a new back fence and a side gate before the summer. Both search “fencing contractors Dublin” or “fence repair near me”, and both want the same things: a price per metre for the common types, photos of finished fences in gardens like theirs, and a straight answer on when you can start. Websites for fencing contractors in Dublin that put a per-metre price beside a photo of each fence type do most of the quoting before the phone rings.
A price per metre beside a photo of each fence
Fencing is one of the trades where you can show prices and should. Concrete posts and gravel boards with timber panels, post and rail, feather edge, picket, slatted, composite, trellis toppers. Each gets a photo in a real garden and a from price per metre or per panel installed, with a note on heights. Then gates: a side gate, a double driveway gate, with from prices.
Say what is included, taking out the old fence and disposing of it, concreting the posts, and what costs more: rocky ground, a slope, a long carry from the van to a back garden with no side access. A customer who can price their own fence to within a bit will ring you, not the three others.
How to measure before you text
Most fencing quotes can be done from a message if the customer sends the right things. Tell them: the length in metres along each run, the height they want, the fence type from your list, a photo along the line of the fence from each end, and whether there is side access. Add a line on which side of the garden the posts will face.
With that you can price it from the van and confirm with a quick look when you start. Your WhatsApp fills with quotable messages instead of “how much for a fence”, and you stop driving across the city to measure ten metres.
Whose fence is it
Every fencing contractor gets the neighbour question: whose fence is it, who pays, can we put it up without asking. You are not a solicitor and the page should not pretend to be, but it can say what you usually see: that most neighbours agree and often split the cost, that you are happy to quote to two households, and that it is worth a conversation over the wall before the posts go in. A paragraph like that saves you from being the one standing between two gardens on the morning.
Storm week and the March rush
The fencing year is wind and sunshine. Winter storms bring a flood of repair calls in a day, and the page can carry a line that week saying you are working through storm damage in date order and when planned jobs can be fitted in. From March, when people go back out into the garden, the planned work starts and runs to the end of summer; that is when the new fence, the gate and the trellis get ordered. Frozen or waterlogged ground slows posts in January and February, which is worth a sentence when you explain lead times.
Fencing often arrives alongside a new lawn or patio, so a mention of a landscaper you work with, or a tree surgeon for the overhanging branch that took the fence down, rounds the page out.
Photos from the garden, not the yard
The photos that sell fencing are taken standing in the finished garden looking at the fence, in daylight, with the lawn tidy and the offcuts gone. A before shot of the old fence leaning, then the new one from the same spot. A close-up of a capped post and a gravel board. A side gate closed, with the latch. Label each with the type and the height. Twelve of those and the page is doing your quoting for you.
What we need from you
Your fence types with from prices per metre or panel, your gate prices, what is included and what adds cost, your current lead time, the areas you cover, your measuring instructions if you have your own, and a dozen photos of finished work. Ten minutes on the phone, or at the yard if you are in Dublin.
Plan and price
Essentials is the right plan for a fencing contractor: €499 to set up and €50 a month, no contract, VAT on top, for the site with your prices and photos, the enquiry and WhatsApp buttons, the .ie domain, hosting, the Google listing and a monthly report of what came in. Complete is for when you want Google Ads in spring, review requests after each job, or a chat box answering “do you cover Swords and what is a side gate” on a Sunday. The two plans are on the pricing page. To check your current site against the basics, there is a checklist in signs your website is costing you customers.