PITTSBURGH, Pa., October 2026. Q&A Fencing has put its installed pricing for aluminum, vinyl, mixed-material, and chain link fence on its public website, in a calculator that returns a homeowner a dollar range before anyone has asked for a name or a phone number.

The ranges are the company's own. Owner Quinten rebuilt the price table this month from the jobs his crews install around Pittsburgh's South Hills, and the calculator returns the same numbers his estimates do: aluminum at $50 to $60 per linear foot for 4-foot and $70 to $80 for 5- and 6-foot; white vinyl at $50 to $60 and wood-tone vinyl at $55 to $65; mixed-material, an aluminum frame with vinyl boards, at $70 to $90; and chain link at $30 to $40. A walk gate adds $500 to $800. Removing an old fence runs $3 to $8 per foot.

On a typical 150-foot backyard that puts 6-foot white vinyl at $7,500 to $9,000 installed, mixed-material at $10,500 to $13,500, and chain link at $4,500 to $6,000.

Most fence contractors keep that information behind a site visit. Q&A's position is that the visit goes better when the homeowner already knows the number.

"Every homeowner asks what a fence costs before they ask anything else. Hiding it just wastes their time and ours," said Quinten, owner of Q&A Fencing.

The company says the change shows up in the estimates it goes out on. A homeowner who has already run 150 feet of wood-tone vinyl through the calculator arrives at the site visit with the range in hand, and the conversation is about the yard, the gates, and the slope rather than about whether $8,000 is a reasonable figure.

"People show up already knowing the range, so we spend estimates on layout and gates instead of sticker shock," Quinten said.

The calculator asks for fence type, height, length, the number of walk gates, whether an old fence is coming out, and whether the yard is flat, sloped, or steep. It returns a low and high figure and a short explanation of what moves a job inside the range. There is no form between the inputs and the result.

Q&A does not install wood or composite fence, and the calculator does not quote them. The company's note on that is plain: it prices what it builds.

The price list sits beside a cost guide covering permits (requirements vary by town, and we help with permits), Pennsylvania pool barrier rules, and what changes a quote on a sloped lot.

Q&A Fencing installs aluminum, vinyl, mixed-material, and chain link fence across the South Hills of Pittsburgh and nearby Washington and Westmoreland County communities. It is the sister company of Q&A Landscaping, founded in 2010 by Quinten and Anthony. Call or text 412-337-1039.