Fence Company in Wren, SC

Most people calling a fence company in Wren, SC are calling about a yard that has never had a fence in it. This is the fast growing corner of Anderson County near the Greenville County line, so the typical job here is a first fence on a lot that was pasture or timber four years ago, and we have built 55 plus fences across the Upstate since 2018.

We are a service area business, which means the quote happens in your yard rather than in a showroom. Free, on site, no deposit and no obligation, 7am to 7pm seven days a week, with no trip charge anywhere in Anderson County.

The schools that pulled the subdivisions in

Wren is not a town. It is a community in northern Anderson County known locally by its schools, all in Anderson School District One: Wren Elementary on Roper Road, Wren Middle and Wren High School on Wren School Road. Wren High opened in 1957 and now runs around 1,250 students.

Growth here is not a marketing claim, it is a documented problem. District One voted in 2008 to build a separate high school for the Powdersville side because Wren had outgrown itself, and Powdersville High opened in August 2011 with 265 students in its first two grades. Neighboring Powdersville had 10,025 residents at the 2020 census. Anderson County planning meetings on the Highway 81 corridor now routinely hear from school administrators about capacity and portable classrooms as new subdivisions come forward.

For us that translates into a steady stream of nearly identical jobs: newly closed houses, bare back yards, families who want the dog contained and the pool enclosed before summer.

What a builder leaves behind in a new back yard

A newly graded Wren lot is not topsoil with clay somewhere below it. The topsoil was scraped off, the Cecil subsoil was cut, filled and then rolled by heavy equipment, and a thin skin of sod or straw went over the top. That compacted red clay is what our posts go into, and it drains slowly enough that a narrow hole holds water for days after a storm.

The grading also leaves shapes that matter. Builders cut swales along rear and side lot lines to move water between houses, and those swales are frequently inside a recorded drainage easement. A fence set in the bottom of one will dam it and turn your neighbor's runoff into your problem, so we look at where water goes before we pick a line.

The one advantage of a new lot is precision. The survey pins are usually still in the ground and the plat is recent, so we can set a line to the actual boundary instead of negotiating with a fence somebody built in 1992.

48 inches of rain a yearFalls on this part of the Upstate against a US average of 38, which is why drainage and hole diameter get as much thought as the fence itself on a freshly graded lot.

Get the architectural approval before we order material

Nearly every new Wren subdivision comes with covenants and an architectural review committee, and they typically restrict height, material, color and which side of the fence faces the street. The approved answers are usually black aluminum where the fence is visible from the road and white or tan vinyl in the rear, with wood allowed in some neighborhoods and not others.

We will build to whatever gets approved and we will give you the material specification, height and layout in writing to submit. What we will not do is start on a spec that has not been signed off, because the fence that has to come back down is the most expensive one anybody buys.