Fence Company in Greenville, SC

We are a fence company in Greenville, SC, working the city itself and every part of Greenville County around it. Greenville had 70,720 people at the 2020 census, which makes it the sixth largest city in South Carolina, and the housing that holds them ranges from cottages built in 1913 a mile from Falls Park to subdivisions finished last year. The fence that belongs on one of those lots is rarely the fence that belongs on the other.

We have been building fences in the Upstate since 2018, more than 55 of them, and we hold a 4.7 star average across 24 Google reviews. Quotes are free, done on site, with no deposit taken and nothing owed if you decide against the job. Someone answers the phone from 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, weekends included, which is usually when people are actually home to walk a property line with us.

What a Greenville lot is really like

Greenville's oldest residential fabric sits in a ring around downtown. North Main, Augusta Road, Alta Vista and Overbrook were laid out in the early twentieth century, and some Overbrook houses date to 1913. Lots there are deep and narrow, side yards are often under ten feet wide, and the street trees have had a century to put roots under the grass. Beyond that ring sit the old mill villages, Brandon, Woodside, Monaghan, Poe, Judson and Dunean among them, where worker housing from the 1890s through the 1930s was built small and close together on tight frontages. Further out you get mid century neighborhoods like Botany Woods, wide lots under oaks and dogwoods, and then the newer builds toward Pelham Road and Woodruff Road.

That matters because it decides how the fence gets built before anyone picks a material. A narrow side yard between two 1920s houses will not take a machine, so the holes get dug by hand and every post and panel is carried in from the street. Under a mature water oak we hand dig anyway, because an auger that catches a two inch root either stalls or tears out wood the tree needs. On the newer side of town the ground is open and graded and the same length of fence goes in at roughly twice the pace.

48 inches of rain a yearFalls on the Upstate against a US average of 38, and Cecil clay drains slowly enough that a fresh post hole holds most of it.

Height limits and historic district review inside the city

Inside the city limits, Greenville's zoning caps a front yard fence at 3 feet in most residential districts and allows 6 feet in the side and rear yards. That single rule drives a lot of what we install downtown. A front yard gets a picket, a low ornamental aluminum panel or wrought iron, because that is what fits under three feet and still looks deliberate. Privacy goes in the back where the height is allowed.

Seven local historic districts overlay parts of the older city: Colonel Elias Earle, East Park Avenue, Hampton-Pinckney, Heritage, Overbrook, Pettigru and West End. If your house sits in one of them, anything visible from the street gets reviewed for appearance, and a tall vinyl privacy panel across a front yard is not going to survive that review. We will tell you which version is worth submitting before we quote it, not after.

Outside the city limits, in unincorporated Greenville County, no permit is pulled for a residential fence at all, though height and placement still have to meet county rules and the fence has to sit entirely on your ground and clear of easements. A Greenville mailing address does not settle which applies, so the first thing we check on a quote is whether the property is inside the city or in the county.

Roots, old lines and what slows a job down here

Two things add time on the older side of Greenville. The first is roots. A century of oak, maple and pecan means we routinely move a post six or eight inches and pick the line back up with a slightly longer rail span, rather than sever a structural root and watch the tree decline over the next three summers.

The second is the property line itself. Blocks platted in the 1910s and 1920s were staked with equipment nobody would use now, and after a hundred years of driveways, retaining walls and hedges, the fence a neighbor built in 1985 often is not on the line. We walk it with you before anything is ordered, and where the corner pins cannot be found we recommend setting the fence a few inches inside your own side rather than starting an argument you cannot win later.