Fence Replacement in Taylors, SC

Fence replacement in Taylors has one less authority to satisfy than most places we work. Taylors is a census designated place of about 23,222 people with no city government at all, so there is no council, no zoning office and no Taylors fence ordinance. Unincorporated Greenville County rules apply, and that is the whole list.

What does complicate a replacement here is the ground and the neighbors. Around the old Southern Bleachery mill village the lots are small, the runs are short and there is usually existing fence on both sides of yours. Up in Pebble Creek the yards fall away toward creeks and ponds with ground climbing toward Paris Mountain, and how the old fence handled that slope is the decision you get to revisit.

Short runs, close neighbors, partial replacements

The mill village cottages around Taylors Mill sit on lots where a full perimeter might be under two hundred feet, and where fence has been going up and coming down for generations. That produces a very specific job: two sides failing, one side that a neighbor rebuilt four years ago, and a fourth that is somebody else's fence entirely.

Replacing three sides and leaving the fourth is a sensible outcome rather than a compromise, and we will say so if that is what the walk shows. What it needs is a clean junction. Where a new run meets a run you are keeping, the shared post has to be new, because hanging fresh material off a twenty year old post simply relocates the next failure to the joint.

Matching is the other half. Height, picket width, spacing and cap detail can all be matched to what is already standing. Color cannot, because your boards are new and theirs have weathered, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling you a stain schedule. Chain link matches outright, since height, gauge and finish are standard specifications.

Pebble Creek slope, and stepped versus raked

Pebble Creek runs to more than 430 homes across roughly 500 acres of woodland, ponds and creeks, and very little of it is flat. On a sloping run the original builder made a choice: step the panels so each one stays level and the top line moves in stairs, or rake the run so the rails follow the grade and the top line stays parallel to the ground. Replacement is your chance to change that choice, and it is free to change at layout time.

Stepping leaves triangular gaps under each panel on a steep grade, which matters if you are containing a dog and does not if you are not. Raking closes the gaps and looks continuous, but it will not work with every panel system, and picket tops have to be cut to keep a clean line. We walk the grade with you and show you which sections are steep enough for the difference to be visible.

Slope also decides where the water goes, and water is what killed the fence you are replacing. About 48 inches of rain a year runs downhill through those yards, so the low posts sit wet longest. New holes go clear of the old footings, dug wider than the post needs, with the concrete crowned so runoff sheds off the footing instead of standing against the post at grade.

What a fence replacement job in Taylors includes

A Taylors replacement quote covers what comes out, what gets matched and how the run handles the grade.

• Tear out of the failed sections, with any sound run identified and left alone
• Old concrete footings dug out and hauled off rather than buried under the new line
• Old footing holes backfilled and tamped before the new line is strung
• New shared posts wherever a new run ties into fence you are keeping
• Height, picket width, spacing and cap detail matched to the adjoining fence
• A grade walk to settle stepped or raked before anything is cut
• Holes dug wider than the post with footings crowned to shed hillside runoff
• Debris hauled away and a walk of the finished run with you

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