Use $1.20 to $12 per installed linear foot as a planning estimate. Wire type, strand count, bracing and site conditions affect your quote. Specialty panels are quoted separately. Request a written quote for your fence and site.

Fifteen to thirty years, with the galvanizing class and the posts deciding it. Class 3 coated wire routinely passes twenty-five years, while the wood posts under it typically need replacing sooner. High-tensile runs hold longest, provided the end assemblies were built correctly at the start.

It depends on your town, and agricultural use often changes the answer. Massachusetts municipalities set their own fence bylaws, and many relax requirements for land in active agricultural use while still regulating height near a road. We confirm the local rule with your building department before work starts.

Woven wire is a mesh of horizontal and vertical wires joined at each crossing, forgiving of impact and simple to patch. High-tensile is a few smooth strands under heavy tension, very strong but unforgiving of weak corner bracing. Mixed parcels usually favor woven. Compare quotes for the required wire and bracing.