Fence Company in Easley, SC

We are a fence company in Easley, SC, and we work the whole town, from the mill village streets south of downtown out to the newer subdivisions along Highway 123 and Powdersville Road. Easley counted 22,921 people at the 2020 census, which makes it the largest city in Pickens County and a principal city of the Greenville metro, and it holds roughly 11,898 housing units spread across about a century and a half of building.

The town was chartered in 1874 and grew along the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway, the same corridor the Doodle Trail follows today on its run from Easley to Pickens. That history is still visible in the housing, and it is the reason a fence quote in one part of Easley looks nothing like a fence quote two miles away. We have been building in the Upstate since 2018, more than 55 fences to date.

Three different Easleys, three different fences

The oldest residential stock sits around the mills. The Easley Mill complex was completed in 1900 on South 5th Street, and the Glenwood and Woodside villages carry the same pattern: small single story cottages, narrow frontages, shallow back yards and houses close enough to the line that every foot of a fence is visible from a neighbor's kitchen window. Jobs there are measured in tens of feet, not hundreds, and the deciding question is usually how the new fence meets the one already standing next door.

The second Easley is the brick ranch belt built through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s on quarter and third acre lots. Most of those yards were fenced once already, in galvanized chain link, and a lot of that fabric is now fifty years old, sagging between posts that are still perfectly sound. That is the town's most common repair call and its most common replacement call at the same time.

The third Easley is new. Subdivisions off Highway 123 and out toward Powdersville have gone in over the last twenty years with architectural covenants attached, and the golf course homes around Smithfields Country Club carry their own expectations. Those neighborhoods push buyers toward white vinyl and black aluminum, at a stated height, on a stated line, with written approval first.

Ground, water and the Doodle Trail at your back

Pickens County sits on the same Cecil series red clay as the rest of the Piedmont, mapped across more than 10 million acres of it. Cecil is kaolinite heavy, so it holds its shape and does not swell and shrink the way a high plasticity clay does, but it drains slowly. Dig a ten inch hole and you have made a ten inch bucket. Rain here averages about 48 inches a year against a US average of 38, with no dry season.

That is a wood fence's whole life story in this county. A post set in a hole that holds water rots at grade first, three or four inches below the surface where the air and the wet meet, and the fence leans years before the boards fail. We set posts for wind load and saturated clay rather than for a frost line that barely exists here, use ground contact rated lumber because South Carolina sits in one of the heaviest termite pressure zones mapped in the residential code, and crown the concrete so water runs off the footing instead of standing against the post.

One local wrinkle is worth knowing. Properties backing the Doodle Trail have a public path on the far side of the fence rather than a neighbor, which changes the answer on which side the rails face and makes a style that looks finished from both directions worth the small difference in price.

Chartered in 1874Easley grew along the Air Line railway, and the rail bed through town is now the Doodle Trail running from Easley to Pickens.