Fence Company in Centerville, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Centerville, SC and across the rest of Anderson County, working as a service area business with no showroom and no street address to visit. We measure in your yard, quote there, and have built 55 plus fences since 2018 with 4.7 stars from 24 Google reviews behind us.

Centerville is minutes from the city of Anderson, so scheduling here is easy and there is no trip charge inside the county. Free quotes, no deposit taken and no obligation attached, 7am to 7pm, seven days a week including weekends.

The biggest unincorporated community in this part of the county

Centerville had 7,185 residents at the 2020 census, up from 6,586 in 2010 and 5,181 in 2000. It covers about 5.93 square miles of central Anderson County directly west of the city, which puts roughly 1,200 people per square mile on ground with no town hall of its own. Interstate 85 sits about four miles north at Exit 19, and Lake Hartwell is around two miles west.

Two thousand more people in twenty years shows up in the housing. Streets built in the 1980s and 1990s sit next to subdivisions finished in the last few years, which means we are quoting a first fence on a bare graded lot one morning and a full tear out on a twenty five year old wood line that afternoon.

Those two jobs need opposite things. New lots have findable survey pins, compacted subsoil and an architectural committee. Older lots have mature root systems, an existing fence on at least one side to match, and corners that have not been marked since the original plat.

Matching a neighbor and clearing the covenants

On an established Centerville street your fence is rarely the only one. Matching matters, and not only for appearance. If the fence next door is six foot dog eared pine and yours is five foot shadowbox, the shared line looks wrong from both yards and the height difference makes a gap at the corner. We would rather match your neighbor's height and picket profile than build something that fights it.

In the newer sections, covenants decide the argument before you have it. Many of these subdivisions restrict height, material and even color, and the usual approved answers are black aluminum toward the street and white or tan vinyl in the back. We will build to whatever the committee approved, but get the approval first, because a fence that has to come down is the most expensive kind.

Centerville is unincorporated, so the City of Anderson ordinances do not apply here and South Carolina sets no statewide fence permit or height limit. County regulation plus your recorded covenants are the whole rulebook.

Cecil clay and why post depth is the entire job

Under Centerville is the same Cecil series red clay that runs across more than 10 million acres of the southeastern Piedmont. It is kaolinite heavy, so it holds its shape and barely swells, but it drains slowly. A narrow post hole fills with water and keeps it, which is what corrodes steel at grade and rots wood at grade rather than at the top.

48 inches of rain a yearLands on Anderson County against a US average of 38, which is the real reason post depth and hole diameter matter more here than the grade of lumber above ground.