PICKETPILOT FIELD GUIDE

Build a fence material budget with clear exclusions

A fence budget becomes more useful when each number has a unit and a scope. Keep the product choices and missing amounts beside the quantities.

Collect prices that match the list

Record a price per actual post, picket, rail, gate kit or bag. Keep ordinary posts and gate posts separate when they are different products. Confirm length, treatment, grade, intended use and package basis with the supplier.

PicketPilot supplies no national price presets. Retail prices can depend on store, order size, selected product and delivery terms. Blank price fields stay unknown; explicitly entering zero means you deliberately assigned no cost.

Price quantities after rounding

A list of 36 pickets at a hypothetical $3 each gives a $108 picket line. The price is illustrative, not a supplier observation. Picket spares are added to the whole per-bay quantities before the price is extended.

The known subtotal includes priced lines only. A complete entered-items total requires prices for nonzero selected quantities plus delivery and tax amounts. A zero-quantity gate line contributes zero without requiring a gate price.

Compare a material list with the same scope

The worksheet excludes fasteners, brackets, hardware not included in a gate kit, finishes, tools, demolition, disposal, permits, surveys and labor. Optional concrete is counted only when you enable and complete its geometry. Those omissions do not become free simply because the entered material list is priced.

A contractor’s installed quote may include several of these items. Write down inclusions, exclusions, schedule, site conditions and product specifications before comparing it with another quote or a self-purchase list. Export this worksheet as a starting point for a supplier check, not as an order or construction instruction.