Aluminum Fence Installation in Greenville, SC

Most of our aluminum fence installation in Greenville goes in the front yard, which is unusual for a fence company and comes down entirely to one line in the city's zoning. A front yard fence inside the city limits is capped at 3 feet in most residential districts. At that height a solid panel looks like something somebody gave up on. An ornamental run does not.

Greenville had 70,720 people at the 2020 census, and the streets we get called to most are the older ones: Overbrook, Alta Vista, North Main and the blocks off Augusta Road, with the mill villages ringing them. Those houses are brick or painted clapboard, the yards have had a century of settling, and the trees are older than the houses. All three of those change how an aluminum run gets laid out.

Front yard aluminum that suits brick and clapboard

Three feet is not much fence, so every visible part of it counts. Against dark red brick, black powder coat drops into the shadow line and the house stays the thing you look at. Against white or gray clapboard, black reads as a drawn line and bronze reads softer, which is usually the better call on a cottage with a deep porch. We hold samples against the house at the measure rather than deciding from a brochure.

Style matters at that scale too. A spear top on a 3 foot run in front of a bungalow looks borrowed from a bigger house. Flat top panels with a slim picket sit closer to the wood picket fences that were on these streets originally, and they read better under a porch line. Where the frontage has granite curbing, a low brick pier or an old retaining wall at the sidewalk, posts can be surface mounted to it instead of dug, which keeps the masonry intact and shortens the fence to the part that needs to exist.

Seven local historic districts overlay parts of the older city, Overbrook and Pettigru among them, and in those districts anything visible from the street is reviewed for appearance. Ornamental metal generally clears that review where a solid panel does not. We put the height, the color, the top style and the picket spacing in writing so your application describes a fence rather than an intention.

Racking around roots and a century of settling

Aluminum panels rack, meaning the rails pivot at the post brackets so the line follows the fall of the ground while the pickets stay plumb. On a Greenville lot that matters for a reason most people do not expect. It is not a hillside problem. It is small, constant unevenness: a front walk that has heaved, a yard that has crept toward the street over a hundred years, a root that lifted the grass eight inches in one spot.

A stepped line across that looks worse than the ground does. A racked line absorbs it and reads straight. The limit is how much fall one panel will take before the brackets bind, which is why we record the drop across every panel length at the quote instead of averaging the whole run.

Roots set the post centers. Panel length is fixed, so a post cannot slide six inches the way it can on a wood fence where a longer rail span picks the line back up. Where a structural root sits in a hole, the choices are a trimmed panel on one side of the tree, a swivel bracket angling the line around it, or an offset hole dug by hand. We hand dig near mature hardwoods regardless, because an auger that catches a two inch root tears out far more than it cuts.

Narrow side yards and the old boundary

The older blocks give us side yards under ten feet wide, so panels, posts and concrete come in from the street by hand. Aluminum helps there. A finished panel is light enough for one person to carry down a walk that will not take a machine, and there is nothing to saw or assemble in the yard beyond the occasional cut section.

The boundary is worth settling before anything is ordered. On blocks laid out a century ago the corner pins have often been paved over, and a fence a neighbor put up in 1985 has become the working line in everyone's mind whatever the plat says. An aluminum run is set out as one continuous line on fixed post centers, so a correction after the concrete has gone off is a rebuild rather than an adjustment.

What a aluminum fencing job in Greenville includes

Every Greenville aluminum job is measured on your property, and this is what the price covers.

• A measure that records the fall across each panel length rather than an average for the run
• Confirmation of whether the address sits inside the Greenville city limits or in the county, because the height rules differ
• Utility locate request before we dig, with irrigation heads and low voltage lighting flagged by hand
• Powder coated posts, panels, caps, brackets and gate frames in black, bronze or white
• Hand digging near mature trees, with post centers planned around roots instead of driven through them
• Panels racked so the bottom rail tracks a lawn that has been settling since the 1920s
• Surface mounted posts where the line runs onto existing masonry, curbing or a retaining wall
• Gate posts upsized for the leaf, with self closing and self latching hardware wherever a pool sits behind the fence

The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our aluminum fence installation page. This page covers what changes in Greenville.