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Simpsonville, SC · Greenville County
Privacy Fence Installation in Simpsonville, SC
In a Simpsonville subdivision the privacy fence quote is really two quotes: what the architectural committee will approve, and what the back yard drainage will tolerate.
Privacy fence installation in Simpsonville starts with two documents rather than a tape measure: the architectural rules for your neighborhood and the plat that shows where the drainage easement runs. Both of them can overrule what you want, and both are cheaper to read now than to argue with later.
Simpsonville reached 23,354 people at the 2020 census, up from 18,238 ten years earlier, and most of that growth arrived as covenanted back yards waiting for a fence. We quote every one of them free, on site, with no deposit, seven days a week from 7am to 7pm. More than 55 fences since 2018, 4.7 stars from 24 Google reviews.
The architectural committee decides more of this than we do
In Neely Farm, Holly Tree, Kilgore Farms and most of what has gone up around them, the committee sets the height, the material, sometimes the color and almost always which way the finished face points. That last one is where people get caught, because it is written for the street picture and not for your privacy.
Board on board answers it neatly. Overlapping the boards puts framing on neither side, so the fence reads the same from your yard and from the neighbor's, and there is nothing for a committee or a neighbor to object to. It also happens to be the pattern that survives the first drying season without opening gaps, so one decision solves two problems.
- Height, usually capped at six feet at the rear and lower along a street frontage
- Material and color, with some neighborhoods allowing wood only and some vinyl only
- Finished side out, which board on board satisfies without argument
- Setback from the rear line, and whether the run may cross an easement at all
A solid fence across a drainage swale is a dam
Most Simpsonville back yards carry a shared swale inside a recorded easement, and it exists to move water off several lots at once. A six foot privacy fence is a continuous wall with no gaps in it by design, which is exactly what you do not want sitting across a channel that has to keep flowing.
Two things follow. The fence gets a deliberate ground gap where it crosses the low line, sized so water and leaf litter pass under instead of piling against the boards, and the bottom board stays clear of standing water so rot does not start there. A run that dams a swale backs water into your own yard first, then into your neighbor's, and that becomes an easement conversation nobody enjoys.
If a gap at the bottom is not acceptable because of a dog, the answer is to move the line rather than to seal the swale. We work that out at the quote with the plat in hand.
Builder graded lots and what the post hole is really in
The topsoil on most of these lots was stripped during construction and what is left is compacted Cecil clay. It holds its shape, which is good, and it drains slowly, which is not, so a narrow post hole fills and stays full. Anderson takes about 48 inches of rain a year against a national average of 38, and none of it is in a hurry to leave.
A privacy fence makes that worse than an open fence does, because a solid six foot panel is a sail and every bit of wind load ends up in wet clay. Wide holes, ground contact rated posts and concrete crowned at the top so water runs off instead of sitting on it are not upgrades here. They are the reason the fence is still plumb in year eight.
48 inches of rain a yearFalls on this part of the Upstate against a US average of 38, and a post hole in compacted clay holds most of it.
What a privacy fencing job in Simpsonville includes
A Simpsonville privacy quote covers the committee, the easement and the ground before it covers the boards.
- Architectural rules read at the quote, with a layout that fits inside them
- Plat checked for drainage easements, swales and utility runs across the back yard
- Property corners and survey pins located before the line is strung
- A planned ground gap where the run crosses a swale, sized to keep water moving
- Board on board priced as standard, since it satisfies finished side rules and stays solid
- Wide holes, ground contact rated posts and crowned footings for compacted clay
- Gates on upsized posts, wide enough for a mower or a trailer to get through
- Cleanup, haul away and a walk of the finished line with you
The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our privacy fence installation page. This page covers what changes in Simpsonville.
Why choose us
Why Simpsonville calls us for privacy fencing
We build to the committee, not around it
Nearly every fence we put up in Simpsonville is approved by somebody before it is built. We read the architectural rules at the quote, lay the run out to whatever they say about height, material and finished side, and hand you a specification that reads the same as your application. Getting it right the first time is worth more than any material discount, because a rejected fence is the whole job again.
We look at the plat before the yard
Shared swales and recorded easements run through most back yards in this town, and a solid privacy fence dropped across one turns it into a dam. We check the plat, find the low line and design the crossing so water still moves. That is a five minute conversation at the quote and a very expensive one after a heavy week of rain has backed water up against six feet of solid boards.
Seven days a week, free and on site
We answer from 7am to 7pm every day, weekends included, which suits a working household in the Golden Strip better than a weekday only window. The quote is free, taken on your property, with no deposit and no obligation. One of our Google reviewers called us the best fencing company in the area on prices and quality. Eight years in business and 55 plus fences across two counties.
Rated 4.7 on Google
What customers say
Every review below is a real Google review from a customer in the Upstate. 24 reviews, 4.7 star average.
GREAT company! Great personalities, and fantastic at getting the job done properly, and swiftly. They did a great job fixing my grandmother fence and she's so happy with it. Now the dogs can run freely and happily in the yard. Very hard workers the do an incredible job with great quality.
They gave me a free quote. They were very helpful with my questions and concerns. They have some beautiful ideas and work.
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Questions we get asked
Privacy Fence Installation questions from Simpsonville homeowners
Will my Simpsonville HOA approve a six foot privacy fence?
Most of the neighborhoods here allow six feet at the rear, and the conditions attached are usually about material, color and which way the finished face points rather than about height itself.
Submit before you buy. We give you a specification at the quote that names the height, the material, the pattern and the line, which is what an architectural committee actually wants to see. If your rules require the finished side out, board on board handles it without the fence looking one sided from either yard.
Can a privacy fence cross the drainage swale behind my house?
Usually you can build across it, but you cannot block it. The swale is normally inside a recorded easement that serves several lots, and a solid privacy fence sitting flat on the ground stops the water it was built to carry.
We handle it by leaving a deliberate gap under the run where it crosses the low point, sized so water and debris pass through. Where the easement language or the neighborhood rules are stricter, the fence line moves instead. Either way it is settled with the plat in front of us at the quote rather than discovered during the first storm.
Wood or vinyl for a Simpsonville back yard?
Vinyl if you are staying a long time and do not want to think about it, because it does not shrink, does not need refinishing and keeps the same screen for its whole life. Wood if the budget is the constraint or you want a stained color, which vinyl cannot give you.
The one thing to avoid on a graded clay lot is the cheapest possible combination of butted pine boards and undersized posts. A solid six foot panel in soft wet clay puts real load on those posts, and gaps open across the first summer as the boards dry. Board on board in wood or a vinyl panel both solve that, at different prices.
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