An instant fence staining quote tool priced by face area
Homeowners trace their fence on a satellite map, enter its height, pick a stain, and see your price for one side or both.
- Free on every plan
- Starts from a Fence Staining template
A privacy fence through the instant fence staining quote tool
Drag the run. The face area is the length times the height the homeowner entered, and one side is priced until they ask for both.
Semi-transparent stain on one side of a 180 ft, 6 ft tall cedar privacy fence.
- Semi-transparent stain (1,080 sq ft) 1,080 sq ft × $1.50 $1,620.00
$1.50 a square foot of face is $9 a foot on a 6 ft fence, inside both the per-square-foot and privacy-fence figures in the price table. Your rates replace it.
Pricing a fence stain from a satellite map
A fence is a run with a height, so the homeowner draws one and types the other. You never learn the height from a phone call again.
- 01
Say hello
Name, phone and email are the price of admission, collected first.
- 02
Trace the fence
They click along the fence on satellite imagery, corner by corner, and each run is measured.
- 03
Height and stain
They enter how tall it is, within the range you allow, and pick the stain you offer.
- 04
Face area priced
Length times height becomes square feet, and your price appears.
Fence staining cost per square foot and per linear foot
Fence finishing is quoted both ways in the guides. Here are both, and the setting that turns each into a price.
| Job | Market range | How you set it in the tool |
|---|---|---|
| Stain or paint a fence, face area1 | $0.50 to $2.50 / sq ft | Your per-square-foot rate on each stain |
| Wood privacy fence1 | $3 to $10 / lin ft | At 6 ft tall, $1.50 a square foot is $9 a foot |
| Picket fence1 | $2 to $5 / lin ft | A 4 ft picket at $0.75 a square foot is $3 a foot |
| Shadow-box or board-on-board fence1 | $4 to $14 / lin ft | Both faces show, so the second-side add-on applies |
| Walk gate1 | $100 to $600 each | A counted flat add-on |
- HomeGuide, How Much Does It Cost To Stain or Paint a Fence? (2026), published Feb 4, 2026. Read Sep 23, 2026.
Fence staining leads with the footage and height filled in
Each request lands in the tool's list with the traced run, the height, the stain and the total, and an email goes out to your crew. Leads carries the follow-up.
Get the stain job signed without a second visit
When the homeowner wants it in writing, email a formal quote on a paid plan and let them sign it on their phone. See quotes.
Questions fence staining companies ask
Published figures run $0.50 to $2.50 per square foot of face, or $3 to $10 per linear foot for a wood privacy fence (price table). The tool works in square feet, so $1.50 on a 6 ft fence equals $9 a foot.
Price one side as the base and put the far side on as an extra billed per square foot at the same rate. The homeowner ticks it, and the second face is billed on the same area.
They type it after drawing the run. You set the lowest and highest height the tool accepts, and anything outside those bounds is adjusted with a note telling them so.
Yes, on every plan, including the list of requests. The Fence Staining template comes with the tool; formal quotes come with the paid plans.
New fence installs use a different calculator with styles, heights and gates: see the fence quote tool. Decks have their own deck staining page.
Add walk gates as a counted flat add-on. The homeowner picks how many, and each one is billed at the flat price.
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Start from the Fence Staining template, set a rate per stain and a second-side add-on, and share the link with every fence customer from last year.