Temporary fence is priced by the panel and by the week, not by the job, so the number you need before you call is the length of the line you want closed. A standard chain link panel is six feet tall and twelve feet wide, which makes the arithmetic simple: divide your run by twelve and round up. Everything else on the quote, delivery, install, gates, sits on top of that panel count.
Count the panels before you ask for a price
Walk the line and measure it, including the sides you think are already closed by a wall or a hedge. Divide by twelve and add one for the gate. A three hundred foot perimeter is twenty-five panels, and quoting that number to a yard gets you a real price in one call instead of a range that moves once somebody visits.
The four lines on a fence quote
Panel hire per week, a one-off delivery and collection charge, installation if the crew sets it rather than you, and any extras such as gates, screen or sandbags. The panel line is the small one. Delivery and labour are where quotes diverge, which is why a cheap per-panel rate on a short run can end up dearer than a higher rate that includes setting it.
Setting it yourself against having it set
Panels come with feet and couplers and two people can set a straight run quickly. It stops being simple when the ground slopes, when the line crosses a driveway, or when wind matters. Yards will drop and go, or install and dismantle for a labour charge, and on anything over a couple of hundred feet the second option usually costs less than the day it takes you.
Minimum periods and what happens when the job runs on
Most yards set a minimum hire of a week or four weeks, and bill in the same increments after that. Rolling on is normally cheap and automatic, but nobody credits you for returning early inside the minimum. If your dates are genuinely uncertain, ask for the monthly rate up front rather than stacking weeks you will not get back.
Questions people ask about temporary fence rental
How much does it cost to rent temporary fencing for a month?
Take your panel count, multiply by the weekly panel rate, and treat the month as roughly three to four weeks depending on the yard's billing. Add one delivery and collection charge, which does not repeat, and installation labour if you are not setting it yourself.
How tall are rental fence panels?
Six feet is standard for construction site fence, with eight-foot panels available for sites needing more of a barrier. Crowd control barricades are shorter, at about four feet, and are a different product hired for pedestrian lines rather than site security.
Do I need a permit for a temporary fence?
Not on your own property in most places. You generally do once the fence stands on a sidewalk, a street or any public right of way, and that permit comes from the city rather than the rental yard. Ask the yard what other jobs in your city needed, they see it constantly.