Chain Link Fence Installation in Easley, SC

Chain link fence installation in Easley splits along the age of the street you live on, and the finish is where it splits hardest. Easley counted 22,921 residents in 2020 across roughly 11,898 housing units, and those units were built over about a century and a half, from the cottages around the mills to subdivisions that went up last year. Silver chain link is unremarkable on one of those streets and a rejected submission on another.

That is the first question we settle on an Easley quote, before height, before gauge, before gate count. The town was chartered in 1874 and the largest city in Pickens County, and it has enough different housing eras inside it that the honest answer changes every couple of miles. Quotes are free, done on site, seven days a week from 7am to 7pm.

Three ages of Easley street, three answers on finish

Around the mills, galvanized is still the honest answer. The Easley Mill complex was finished in 1900 on South 5th Street, and the Glenwood and Woodside villages that grew with it are small cottages on narrow frontages with shallow back yards. Silver chain link has stood on those streets for generations, most of the neighbors have it, and spending extra to make one yard look different from the rest of the block buys very little.

The brick ranch belt built through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s is where it gets interesting. Those quarter and third acre yards were mostly fenced once already in galvanized, and the fabric is now old enough that the whole street is replacing it in rotation. Nobody there is under a covenant. The choice is genuinely yours, and about half of Easley picks black once they see the two standing side by side.

The newer subdivisions off Highway 123 and out toward Powdersville Road are the third case, and there the answer is usually made for you. Covenants written in the last twenty years commonly name the permitted materials, set a maximum height and require the fence to start behind the rear corner of the house. Where chain link is allowed at all in those neighborhoods, it is allowed in black. We read the covenant at the quote so the submission goes in once.

Turning a fifty year old galvanized fence black

This is the most common chain link call we take in the Easley ranch belt, and it is worth understanding before you decide. On a fence that age the fabric is almost always the part that failed, rusting through along the bottom foot where it sat in wet grass, while the posts are still dead straight in their original concrete.

If the posts are sound, new black fabric on the existing post line changes how the whole yard looks for a fraction of a new fence. What we check first is the pipe. Older residential posts vary in outside diameter, and modern fittings, tension bands, rail ends and caps have to fit what is already in the ground. We measure the posts and the top rail before we quote a conversion rather than assuming they will take current hardware.

Sometimes the answer is that they will not, or that the terminal posts have corroded at grade even though the line posts are fine. Then we say so. Selling you fabric that will be tensioned against a post about to fail is how a cheap job becomes an expensive one two years later.

About 48 inches of rain a yearFalls on the Upstate against a US average of 38, and it is why a chain link post in Pickens County clay fails at grade long before the pipe above it does.

Easley's own rules, and a public trail at your back

Easley is an incorporated city, so its rules apply rather than Pickens County's. A residential fence here is not treated as a building permit job, but the city does want to know where it is going before it goes in, largely because a fence dropped across a drainage path becomes a public problem afterward. That conversation belongs at the quote stage, and we handle it rather than leaving it with you.

Properties backing the Doodle Trail are the local special case. The old Air Line railway bed now runs as a path from Easley to Pickens, so the far side of your fence faces strangers rather than a neighbor. Chain link is unusually well suited to that. There is no good side and bad side to argue about, the fabric looks the same from both directions, and black coated fabric against a wooded trail corridor reads as a boundary rather than a barricade.

The trade off is that chain link screens nothing. If the point of the fence is to stop people on the trail looking into your yard, this is the wrong product and we will point you at a privacy fence instead.

What a chain link fencing job in Easley includes

An Easley chain link quote is written against your street, your covenant and whatever is already standing on the line.

• A read of your covenant, where one exists, before any material is ordered
• Measurement of existing posts and top rail if you are converting rather than replacing
• Utility locate request ahead of digging
• Terminal, corner and gate posts set deeper and heavier than the line posts
• Galvanized or black vinyl coated fabric, tensioned with a come-along and tied at spec
• Concrete crowned above grade so water runs off the footing instead of standing on it
• Removal and haul away of old fabric, posts and footings
• Gate hardware adjusted and the swing checked through its full arc

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