Fence Company in Wade Hampton, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Wade Hampton, SC, and the work here starts with a tear out more often than it starts with a clean line. The census counted 21,482 people across 9,270 households in 2020, which is more than Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest put together, all of it classed as urban and none of it inside a municipality.

The Census Bureau only defined Wade Hampton as a place on 23 July 2015, but that is a paperwork date. The houses are decades older: postwar ranches and split levels laid out along and behind Wade Hampton Boulevard, with deeper lots than anything built today and hardwoods planted when the streets were new. Fences from that era have reached the end of their run, and replacing them is our most common call in this part of the county.

Why most Wade Hampton jobs start with a tear out

A fence rarely fails all at once. It fails at the ground line, quietly, while the part you look at still seems fine. Galvanized chain link rusts through at the bottom of the fabric first. Wood posts go soft at grade where the soil stays damp, long before the pickets look tired. By the time a fence leans, the decision has usually already been made for you.

These are the signs that push a job from repair into replacement:

• Posts that move when you push on them at shoulder height
• Wood that is soft enough to take a screwdriver at grade, even where the boards above are sound
• Chain link fabric rusted out along the bottom selvage so it curls away from the tension wire
• A gate that has been rehung or shimmed more than once and still drags
• More than about a third of the pickets cupped, split or pulling their fasteners
• Sections that were patched with mismatched material at some point and never matched since

When we replace, the old concrete footings come out with the old posts. Leaving them buried sounds like a saving until the new post has to dodge a block of concrete, the line bows around it, and the spacing goes uneven for the length of the run. Pulling them is dirtier work and it is the difference between a rebuild and a patch job.

21,482 peopleLived in Wade Hampton at the 2020 census, more than Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest combined, in a community that has no town hall of its own.

Deep lots, old trees and the line you already have

Subdivisions from the 1950s through the 1970s were laid out with room to spare compared with what gets platted now. That is good news for anyone who wants a real back yard and bad news for the quote, because the perimeter of a deep lot is a lot of linear feet. Most of the price difference between two houses on the same street comes down to that number rather than to the material on the posts.

The trees planted when those streets were new are sixty and seventy years old now, and a fair number of them ended up on or near the property line. We route around root plates rather than cutting through them, shift posts where the spacing can absorb it, and tell you where a tree means the fence has to jog. A trunk that has grown into an old chain link fence is common here, and that section usually has to be cut out and rebuilt rather than salvaged.

On the line itself, we build to whatever you can point at: a survey, the iron pins, or the existing fence. A fence that has stood for thirty years is not automatically on the boundary, and if the exact location matters to you, a survey is cheaper than a dispute. Tell us which of those three you want us to follow and we will follow it.

The Boulevard side of the work

Wade Hampton Boulevard carries US 29 through the middle of the community, and it is commercial for miles: churches, shops, repair yards, restaurants, apartments and light industrial frontage backing onto residential streets. That work has a different brief from a back yard. Perimeter chain link runs heavier pipe and thicker fabric, dumpster screening has to survive a hauler backing into it twice a week, and the whole job is scheduled around trading hours rather than ours.

Because Wade Hampton is unincorporated, there is no local council to apply to and no Wade Hampton fence ordinance. What governs is Greenville County, your recorded plat and any deed restrictions on your street. South Carolina writes no statewide fence permit and sets no state height limit, so those rules are made at city and county level only.