The per-foot price of a wood-framed corrugated metal fence panel at our published prices, a 100 ft run worked through with posts, delivery and HST, and the same run priced from the BC online sellers before the truck.
$21.25 a foot for the panels, $23.60 a foot with the posts, before concrete, fasteners and HST. That is the short answer for a 6 ft corrugated metal fence built from our Wood & Steel panel at its published price of $169.99, and the same answer for the lattice top, which costs the same. The rest of this post works the number through for a real run, says what it leaves out, and puts it next to what the same fence costs ordered from British Columbia, because that is where most of the corrugated panels sold online in Canada ship from.
A fence panel is 8 ft wide, so the price per foot is the panel price divided by eight: $169.99 makes $21.25. Every bay needs a post, plus one to close the run, and a 6 ft fence in southern Ontario needs a 10 ft 4×4 at $18.79: 48 in. in the ground to clear frost and 6 ft above it. That is another $2.35 a foot, and the two together are $23.60. A 6×6 at each gate post and corner adds a few dollars to those bays; the 10 ft 6×6 is $48.99 ($43.99 each at 25 or more, applied in the cart). What the per-foot number leaves out is the same for every fence: two to three bags of concrete per hole, a box of hot-dip galvanised or stainless fasteners for the run, and the labour of digging fourteen holes in GTA clay, which is where an installed quote earns its money. What a wood fence costs in the GTA takes the labour half apart; hanging a metal panel is the same job as hanging a cedar one, so the same numbers apply.
A 100 ft run is thirteen panels on fourteen posts: twelve full bays, one 4 ft bay, and a post at each end and between every pair (the count is worked through here). Picked up at the yard: thirteen Wood & Steel panels $2,209.87, fourteen 10 ft 4×4 posts $263.06, $2,472.93 before tax, 13% HST $321.48, $2,794.41 all in. Put a 4 ft gate in the run and it becomes twelve panels on fourteen posts, two of them 6×6s for the gate: $2,039.88 in panels and $323.46 in posts, $2,670.57 with HST, plus the gate, which we build to match and quote by hand. Delivered instead of collected, add $200 for up to 40 panels plus HST within about 100 km of Bolton; thirteen panels sit inside the first tier. Posts are pickup only, so a delivered order means a trip to the yard for the posts or a call for a lumber quote.
The short bay is the one place a metal run differs from a wood one. A cedar or treated panel is cut down at a rail on site; a field cut through corrugated steel leaves a bare edge, which is where rust starts and where a finish warranty stops. So the 4 ft bay is a custom-width panel from us, quoted by hand, or a wood panel where it shows least. Price the run at thirteen and settle the last bay when you order.
The comparable panel, a wood-framed corrugated 6 × 8 from the BC online metal-panel sellers, listed at $299.99 on 28 September 2026, panel only, made to order: $37.50 a foot before anything moves. Thirteen of them are $3,899.87 against our $2,209.87, a gap of $1,690.00 before a truck is booked. Then the truck. Their pages on 28 September 2026 quoted a flat delivery rate per zone with a C$500 minimum order and a made-to-order lead time of four to eight weeks, with Ontario listed as planned rather than served, so no Ontario freight could be quoted at all; in August 2026 they had quoted $299 to $399 into Ontario on the same panel. The frame on that panel is treated spruce-pine-fir, with a cedar-framed version priced higher still, and there is no lattice-top version. The steel is the same idea as ours, 26-gauge with a 40-year warranty on the sheet and its finish, and on both sides of this comparison the 40-year number covers the steel, not the panel. Ours is on a pallet in Bolton, and you can stand one up before you buy thirteen.
The per-foot habit makes the material comparison easy, because every panel we build is 8 ft wide. Good Neighbour Cedar at $104.99 is $13.12 a foot; the contractor-grade diagonal lattice at $94.99 is $11.87; Pressure-Treated Privacy at $144.99 is $18.12; Solid Privacy Cedar at $159.99 is $20.00; Wood & Steel at $169.99 is $21.25. So the metal panel is the dearest face in the catalogue, by $1.25 a foot over the solid cedar face, and the posts, concrete and labour underneath it cost exactly the same. What the difference buys is a face that never needs staining and does not rot, cup or check, inside a frame that ages like any stained wood. Metal versus vinyl and wood is the full comparison.
Height: the solid panel stands a true 66.5 in. and the lattice top 68 in., and every town writes its own height rule, so read your town's by-law page before you buy for a front yard or a pool. Gates: one gate can carry the cost of several panels, so check the gate count before blaming the per-foot rate. Corners: a 6×6 at each, and each leg of an L rounds up on its own. Slope: panels step down a hill in level runs, and a framed steel panel cannot rack, so a steep lot is a stepped fence. Access: an auger that cannot reach the back yard is a day of hand digging. Season: crews book up by spring, and the yard is quietest in the fall. None of these change the panel price, which is the one number on this page that is fixed.
Every figure above comes from the catalogue on 2026-09-28 and from the BC sellers' own pages on 28 September 2026; both will move, and the price list carries the dated table. Put your own run into the fence calculator, which prices the panels, posts, delivery and HST at the same numbers and drops the panels in your cart, or come to 240 Ellwood Drive West in Bolton and lift one before you order thirteen. The whole line is on the Wood & Steel page.
