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Fence Removal in Connecticut

Chain link, wood, vinyl — $5/linear foot to start, posts and footings out of the ground, holes backfilled. Fixed total in writing at a free walkthrough.

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  • 16,000+

    jobs completed

  • 4.99 ★

    463 reviews

  • Family-owned

    since 2014 (12 years)

  • Licensed & insured

    in Connecticut & New York

dumpster-truck-loaded in Stamford, CT by Grizzly Junk Pros

Fence removal is the one job on our demolition menu you can price from your own tape measure: $5 per linear foot to start, chain link, wood, or vinyl, posts and concrete footings out of the ground — not stubbed off at grade. We pull fence lines everywhere within about an hour of our Stamford or West Haven yards, which covers Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford, Litchfield, and Middlesex counties plus the lower New London shoreline and Westchester border towns, and the final total is fixed in writing at a free walkthrough.

Walk your fence line, count your paces, and you'll land within shouting distance of your own quote before you ever call. That's the point of publishing the rate.

The math, worked out loud

Say you've got a typical suburban back line: 120 feet of tired stockade fence between you and the neighbor's yard.

120 ft × $5/ft = $600 — that's the honest floor for that run: standard posts, reachable line, fence in one piece.

Now the adjustments we check at the walkthrough, because this is where real fences differ from tape-measure fences:

  • Concrete at the posts. A hand-set post pulls easy. A post someone anchored in a full bag of concrete in 1985 is a small excavation, times however many posts you have. This is the single most common reason a fence quote rises above the floor.
  • Vegetation. Bittersweet and English ivy don't just grow on chain link — they weave through it. A vine-bound fence gets cut out in sections rather than rolled, and that's slower.
  • Access and slope. A line the truck can park beside is one price; a line downhill behind the garden is another.

Every adjustment happens with you standing there, and the total we write down is the total you pay.

Posts out of the ground — the part cheap quotes skip

The fabric and panels are the visible fence. The posts are the actual work, and they're where corner-cutting hides: it takes a fraction of the time to cut posts at grade, rake some soil over the stumps, and leave a row of buried concrete for you to find later — with a mower blade, a shovel, or the fence installer who suddenly can't dig new holes where the old footings sit.

Our standard is extraction. Post comes out, footing comes out with it, hole gets backfilled and tamped roughly level. When a footing is genuinely monstrous — the occasional gate post set in half a wheelbarrow of concrete — we price its extraction honestly at the walkthrough rather than abandoning it, and if you'd rather flush-cut a specific post to save money, that's your call to make, made once, on purpose.

Three materials, three disposal paths

Chain link is the recycler's fence: fabric rolls, rails and posts stack, and effectively the whole assembly leaves the transfer-station waste stream as scrap metal. Wood stockade and picket goes the other way — decades-old pressure-treated pine, often spongy with rot, that's straight disposal tonnage with no salvage story. Vinyl is the bulk problem: light but voluminous, and brittle enough in a CT January that cold-weather removals get bundled and handled with more care than the material probably deserves.

You don't have to care about any of this — it's all inside the fixed total — but it's why two fences of identical length can carry different quotes, and we'd rather show the reasoning than hide it.

Fence removal — starting rate

Every demo job is different — final quote confirmed on site after walkthrough. These are honest starting ranges so you can self-qualify before calling. Disposal of all materials is included in the total.

  • Fences (per linear foot)$5/ft

    Chain link, wood, vinyl. Sold by linear foot. Posts and footings included.

    Varies — most residential runs done same day

How the pricing works: Final quote confirmed on site after walkthrough. Disposal of all materials included in the total. We don't pull demo permits — that's the homeowner's responsibility when required.

Standalone outbuildings only — no interior demo, no full-house teardowns, no asbestos.

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Where the rate comes from

The per-foot rate above renders live from our canonical pricing data — the same entry the demolition hub grid shows, never a copy typed into this page. It's a starting rate in the same sense as every demo tier we publish: the floor for the simple version of the job, adjusted openly at the walkthrough for concrete, vegetation, access, and length.

Fence removal also stacks well with our other work. Same visit as a deck teardown or shed removal, the crew's already there and the truck's already parked — bundled jobs almost always beat two separate dispatches on total cost. Mention everything that's coming out when you call.

Measured your fence line yet?

Bring your footage — we'll bring the fixed total. Free walkthrough.

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Five steps to an open line

  1. Call (203) 219-8855 or send the demolition quote form. Rough footage, material, and whether the posts are concrete-set if you know. Photos of a typical stretch help.
  2. Walkthrough. We measure the line together, probe a post or two, settle any keep-this-section boundaries, and fix the total in writing.
  3. Schedule. Fence jobs slot in fast — often same week.
  4. Removal day. Varies — most residential runs done same day: fabric or panels out, posts and footings extracted, holes backfilled.
  5. Haul and recycle. Metal to scrap recycling, wood and vinyl to licensed CT transfer stations in our trucks. Disposal is inside the fixed total.

The usual rules, fence edition

Standalone demolition only — a fence qualifies automatically, but the standing rules still apply: we don't handle disputes over shared or boundary-line fences (settle ownership first), we don't install replacements, and in the rare town where fence removal touches a permit or zoning question, confirming it is the homeowner's side of the table. Scope detail: demolition overview.

Fence removal FAQs

How does per-foot fence pricing actually work?
Measure your fence line, multiply by the rate. At the $5/linear-foot starting rate, a typical 120-foot backyard run works out to $600 as the floor. The rate climbs from there for the harder versions: posts set in bulky concrete, fencing swallowed by years of vines and brush, runs on slopes or behind structures where the truck can't get close. We measure together at the walkthrough and fix the total in writing — you're never paying a rate times our guess.
Do the posts and concrete footings come out?
Out — that's the standard, not the upgrade. Every post gets pulled including its concrete anchor, and the holes get backfilled and tamped. We don't snap posts at grade and leave stubs hiding in the lawn; a stubbed fence line is a row of ankle-height concrete surprises for whoever mows next. Old, oversized footings that fight back are the main thing that moves a fence quote above its floor.
Chain link, wood, vinyl — does material change the price?
It changes the work more than the rate. Chain link rolls up fast but the fabric and rails go to metal recycling as a separate stream. Wood stockade panels are heavy, often half-rotted, and pure transfer-station tonnage. Vinyl is light but bulky and shatters in cold weather, so winter vinyl jobs get handled differently than summer ones. All of it lands inside the same fixed per-job total we set at the walkthrough.
Can you remove just a section of fence?
Sure — partial runs are normal. Opening up a stretch for a new driveway, pulling the back line while keeping the sides, removing the collapsed section a tree took out. Per-foot pricing makes partials easy to quote fairly, though very short runs carry a practical minimum since a crew and truck show up either way.
What if the fence is on the property line and my neighbor might own half of it?
Settle that before we arrive — it's the one part of fence removal we can't do for you. Shared and boundary-line fences are common in CT neighborhoods, and 'whose fence is it' is a conversation (or a survey) between you and your neighbor. We remove fences for the person with the right to remove them; if there's any doubt at the walkthrough, we'll ask the question straight and hold the job until it's answered.
How long does fence removal take?
Varies — most residential runs done same day. A straightforward residential run — pull the fabric or panels, pull the posts, backfill, load — moves quickly once the crew finds its rhythm. What slows it down is exactly what raises the price: heavy concrete at every post, vegetation grown through the fabric, and long carries to the truck.
Do you install new fencing too?
No — removal only. We're a demolition and hauling operation, not a fence contractor. What we will do is leave you a genuinely clean line: posts out, holes backfilled, debris gone, so the installer who follows us starts from nothing instead of charging you their own (usually steeper) rate to demo the old fence first. Plenty of customers book us specifically to shrink the installer's bill.

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