Greenville, SC · Greenville County
Fence Replacement in Greenville, SC
In town the tear out is the expensive half. Ten foot side yards, roots wrapped around twenty year old footings, and on seven streets a board that reviews whatever goes back up.
Replacement prices in Greenville
What does a fence replacement cost in Greenville? Call and find out in about 3 minutes.
Tell us roughly how many feet, what material, and how tall. We'll give you a ballpark range on the call. No site visit needed for a rough number.
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Where each fence lands on price
Cost per foot, installed
- Lowest Chain linkThe lowest cost per foot we install, and the fastest to put up.
- Middle Wood privacyThe most common fence around here. Pine costs less than cedar.
- Highest Vinyl, aluminum and steelMore up front, then almost no upkeep for years.
Your exact number depends on your yard. That's what the call is for.
Why we don't post prices online
Any number we put here would be wrong for your yard. A 120 ft wood fence on flat ground and a 120 ft wood fence on a slope full of roots can be hundreds of dollars apart. Sites that post a "$X per foot" price usually add to it later. We'd rather give you a real number for your line. One call does that.
Fixing, not replacing?
Repairs often cost a fraction of a replacement. Tell us what's broken and we'll tell you which one makes sense.
Fence replacement in Greenville costs more in labor than the same length of fence in a newer subdivision, and access is the reason. The blocks off Augusta Road, North Main and Overbrook were platted with deep narrow lots, side yards frequently under ten feet, so the old boards, the rails, the gates and every lump of concrete under the posts come out on a hand cart rather than in a bucket.
Plan around that and the job is straightforward. Everything removed leaves the property the same day wherever the schedule allows, the craters left by the old footings get backfilled and packed down, and the new fence goes back on the line you already have. Quotes are free and done on site, 7am to 7pm, seven days a week.
Tear out when nothing wider than a wheelbarrow fits
On a mill village lot in Brandon, Monaghan or Poe, and on most of the pre war streets closer in, there is no machine route to the back yard. The gap between the house and the neighbor's driveway is the whole logistics plan. That decides how we price a Greenville tear out: by how far the debris has to travel to reach the street, not only by how many feet of fence there are.
The footings are what make it work. A post set in Cecil clay two decades ago has a clay sleeve packed around the concrete so tight it will not slide out, and the structural roots from a hundred year old water oak have often grown around the plug as well. Snapping the post off at grade and leaving the concrete is faster, and it is also why so many second fences here sit crooked inside five years, because the new hole has to go exactly where that buried lump already is.
So we dig the footings out, carry them to the curb, and haul them off with the rest. Then we backfill and tamp those holes before we set anything, so the yard is not left with a row of soft spots that show up next spring under the mower.
Keep the old line and you keep the old permissions
Inside the city limits most residential districts stop a front yard fence at three feet and allow six in the side and rear yards. A fence that has stood since before that standard is not automatically replaceable at its own height, and that is the single most useful thing to settle before anybody quotes. So is the address itself, because a Greenville mailing address can be city or unincorporated Greenville County, and those are two different rulebooks with two different answers.
Rebuilding on the existing line is what keeps the question small. The setback is already satisfied, the neighbors already agree where the boundary sits, and nothing about the job invites a fresh look. Move the line even a foot and it becomes a new fence in a new place, which means layout time, often a survey, and a conversation with whoever is on the other side.
Add a preservation overlay and the stakes rise again. In the Hampton-Pinckney, Pettigru, Overbrook and West End districts, anything visible from the street is reviewed, and a like for like replacement in the same material at the same height is far easier to get through than an upgrade. We tell you at the quote which of those two jobs you are actually buying.
What a fence replacement job in Greenville includes
A Greenville replacement quote from us prices the removal separately from the rebuild, so you can see both halves.
- Tear out of the whole run, boards, rails, fabric, gates and hardware included
- Old concrete footings dug out and carried off the lot rather than left in the ground
- Hand carry of debris down a narrow side yard, priced in rather than discovered on day two
- Old footing holes backfilled and compacted so the yard is not left pocked
- A check on whether the existing height and line still fit the city or county rule at your address
- New holes dug clear of the old centers, in undisturbed ground, on the same line
- Material and profile written down where a preservation district has to approve it
- A final walk of the rebuilt run with you before the truck leaves
The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our fence replacement page. This page covers what changes in Greenville.
Why choose us
Why Greenville calls us for fence replacement
The concrete leaves the property
A footing that has cured in Greenville clay for twenty years does not lift out whole, and a new post set into its broken remains is loose the day it goes in. We dig the old plugs out, load them, haul them off and tamp the holes shut before the new layout goes down. On a narrow lot that means more trips to the street with a hand cart, which is exactly why some bids leave it out and then find it later.
We settle which rulebook applies first
City of Greenville or unincorporated Greenville County changes the height you are allowed, and a preservation overlay changes the material and the profile on top of that. All three are cheaper to check before a price goes on paper than after a fence is standing. We confirm the address, the district and the existing line at the quote, and we tell you plainly if the fence you have could not be built at that height today.
Eight years of Upstate replacements
Since 2018 we have put up more than 55 fences across Greenville County and Anderson County, residential and commercial. Replacement is a large share of that, so we know what a 1990s pine run looks like at the base and which chain link posts are worth keeping. Quotes are free and on site with no deposit, seven days a week, 7am to 7pm.
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Questions we get asked
Fence Replacement questions from Greenville homeowners
Can I replace my old Greenville fence at the height it is now?
Usually yes in the side and rear yards, where most city residential districts allow six feet. Out front is where people get caught, because the city caps a front yard fence at three feet in most of those districts and an older taller fence out there does not carry that height forward to a new one.
The other half of the answer is which government you are actually under. A Greenville mailing address may sit inside the city or in unincorporated Greenville County, and the rules differ. We confirm it at the quote rather than assuming, because it decides the shape of the whole job.
How do you get the old fence out of a back yard with no machine access?
By hand, and we price it that way from the start. On the older in town lots the side yard is often under ten feet wide, so the old panels get broken down small enough to carry, and the footings come out to the street on a cart a few at a time.
It adds labor hours rather than difficulty. What it does change is where the debris stages, so we agree at the quote where a truck or trailer can sit, whether that is the street, the driveway or an alley, and we keep the pile off your grass while the work runs.
My neighbor's fence is still standing on one side. What happens there?
If their fence sits on their property, yours goes back on yours and there is a small gap between the two runs. That gap is correct rather than sloppy, and it means neither fence depends on the other one staying upright when its turn comes.
If we are tying your new run into something that is staying, the shared post has to be a new one. Hanging a new fence off a post that is already twenty years old just moves the next failure to the joint. We will say which of those you are looking at while we walk the line.
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