Fence Removal in New London County, CT

Out the shoreline, once, done right

Lower New London County runs out I-95 east from our West Haven yard — roughly 45–75 minutes along the shoreline corridor. It's the far reach of our coastal coverage, so we make the drive count: fence jobs here bundle beautifully with a deck teardown, a shed, or a cottage cleanout, and a combined visit nearly always beats two dispatches on total cost.

On the ground, expect shoreline-typical staging — compact cottage lots, narrow seasonal lanes, the occasional beach-association road that wants a slow, careful truck. The crew works the fence line on foot from wherever the truck sensibly parks, and the walkthrough settles that plan along with the footage before the total goes in writing.

Fabric out, posts out, holes filled — in that order

A fence comes apart in layers. The visible fence goes first: chain-link fabric rolled, wood or vinyl panels unscrewed or cut free, rails unbolted. Then the actual work starts, because the posts are where corner-cutting hides in this trade.

Our standard is extraction. Post comes out, concrete footing comes out with it, and the hole gets backfilled and tamped roughly level. We don't snap posts at grade and rake soil over the stumps — a stubbed fence line is a row of ankle-height concrete surprises for whoever mows next, and for the installer who can't dig new holes where the old plugs sit. 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, and if you'd rather flush-cut a specific post to save money, that's your call to make, once, on purpose.

Partial runs work the same way: we settle the keep-this-section boundaries with you at the walkthrough, define the cut line, and take only what's marked. Shared and boundary-line fences have one prerequisite — settle whose fence it is with the neighbor before we arrive. That's the single part of fence removal we can't do for you. Last step, every job: the line gets raked and the crew walks it.

The one demo job you can price from your own tape measure

Fence removal is priced by the linear foot, and the rate on this page renders live from our canonical pricing data — the same entry the demolition hub shows, never a copy typed in here. Walk your fence line, count your paces, multiply. You'll land within shouting distance of your own quote before you ever call, which is exactly the point of publishing the rate.

The starting rate is the floor for the simple version: standard posts, a line the crew can reach, fence in one piece. Three things move a real fence above it, and we check all three at the free walkthrough. Concrete at the posts — a hand-set post pulls easy, but a post someone anchored in a full bag of concrete decades ago is a small excavation, times however many posts you have. Vegetation — bittersweet and ivy don't just grow on chain link, they weave through it, and a vine-bound run gets cut out in sections instead of rolled. And access — a line the truck parks 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. Very short runs carry a practical minimum, since a crew and truck show up either way.

Three materials, three exits

Chain link is the recycler's fence. Fabric rolls, rails and posts stack, and effectively the whole assembly leaves the waste stream as scrap metal — it's the one fence type that mostly avoids the transfer station entirely, and we sort it that way as we load.

Wood goes the other direction. Decades-old stockade and picket is usually pressure-treated pine, often spongy with rot at the grade line, and it's straight disposal tonnage with no salvage story — treated lumber can't be burned, chipped, or mulched, so don't let anyone talk you into leaving it for firewood. Vinyl is the bulk problem: light but voluminous, and brittle enough in a Connecticut January that cold-weather removals get bundled and handled with more care than the material probably deserves.

Everything fence-adjacent can ride out too — gates, hardware, the roll of spare fabric that's been leaning in the garage since the fence went in. What stays behind: dirt and concrete beyond what comes up on a pulled post. If a run has a poured curb or footing wall under it, that's clean-fill territory and we'll point you at the right kind of hauler rather than pretend our cans do that work. You don't have to care about any of this sorting — it's all inside the fixed total — but it's why two fences of identical length can carry different quotes.