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Simpsonville, SC · Greenville County
Wood Fence Installation in Simpsonville, SC
Here the committee often names the board pattern and which way the good side points. Both push the same way, toward shadowbox and board on board.
Wood fence installation in Simpsonville is governed by a document before it is governed by a tape measure. Nearly every neighborhood built here through the growth that took the city from 18,238 people in 2010 to 23,354 in 2020 came with recorded covenants, and those covenants have opinions about fences that go well past height.
The two that matter most for wood are the board pattern and which side the finished face points. Get those right and the submission clears. Get them wrong and you are moving a finished fence. We build cedar and pressure treated pine on site to whatever spec your committee approves, and every quote is free and done on your lot.
What a Simpsonville committee actually writes down
In the big planned neighborhoods, Neely Farm off Harrison Bridge Road, Holly Tree Plantation around its golf course, Kilgore Farms and the developments filling in along Fairview and Scuffletown Roads, the fence language tends to run to four or five lines. A maximum height, usually six feet. An approved material list. A rule that the fence cannot come forward of the rear corner of the house. And then the line that catches people: the finished side must face outward, toward the street and toward the neighbor.
That last rule is the one that decides your lumber bill. On a standard privacy fence the boards are nailed to one face of the rails, so one yard gets a flat wall of pickets and the other gets rails and post faces. Turning the good side out means you are the one looking at the framing for the next twenty years, in your own back yard, on the fence you paid for.
Some Simpsonville covenants go further and name the pattern outright. Where the wording calls for a fence finished on both sides, a butted privacy fence does not qualify no matter which way you point it, and a submission built on one will come back.
Shadowbox and board on board, and the honest difference
Shadowbox alternates boards from one face of the rail to the other, so each yard sees a run of pickets and neither sees framing. It satisfies a finished both sides rule cleanly, and it lets wind pass through the fence instead of standing against it, which matters on the open graded lots out here where nothing breaks the weather.
The trade is sight lines. Stand square to a shadowbox fence and it is solid. Walk along it and you see through the offset at an angle. If the point of the fence is a pool or a hot tub rather than a property line, that matters, and we say so before you order it.
Board on board overlaps the pickets on a single face instead of alternating them, so the screen stays closed and the overlap absorbs shrinkage rather than opening daylight in year two. It uses noticeably more lumber, so it costs more, and it reads as finished from the far side while still showing rails on yours unless it is framed on both faces. Where the covenant only requires the good side out, this is the pattern we push, because the most common complaint about a two year old wood fence is not that it failed, it is that you can see through it.
23,354 residentsLived in Simpsonville at the 2020 census, and almost all of the growth behind that number arrived as covenanted subdivisions.
A wood submission needs more detail than a vinyl one
A vinyl fence is a catalog item, so the submission is a color and a height. Wood is built rather than bought, and a committee reviewing one wants to know the pattern by name, the height, the picket width, the post size and whether there is a cap rail or a trim board on top. If you plan to stain it, they generally want the color too, and approving that at the same meeting saves you a second trip through the process a year later.
We write that specification out with the measurements, so what you hand the board describes an actual fence. Then we hold the install date until the approval comes back in writing. Waiting two weeks costs nothing. Taking down a finished fence costs plenty.
What a wood fencing job in Simpsonville includes
A Simpsonville wood fence quote includes the paperwork side, because that is where these jobs actually get decided.
- A written specification naming the pattern, height, picket width, post size and top detail for your architectural submission
- A measured layout showing the run starting behind the rear corner of the house, as most covenants require
- The finished face pointed the direction your covenant names, confirmed with you before any lumber is cut
- Ground contact rated posts set in concrete on a graded lot where the clay holds water in every hole
- Rails fastened to the posts rather than toe nailed, since a shadowbox run carries boards on both faces
- Gate posts upsized and set deeper than line posts, hung on hardware that can be adjusted when the lot settles
- A stain color quoted at the same time, so you can take one approval to the board instead of two
- Your install date held until the written approval is in your hand
The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our wood fence installation page. This page covers what changes in Simpsonville.
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Why Simpsonville calls us for wood fencing
We build the fence the covenant describes
A finished both sides requirement is not satisfied by turning a standard privacy fence around, and a committee that wrote that line will notice. We read the actual wording with you at the quote, then price the pattern that answers it, usually shadowbox or board on board. Building a fence twice is the most expensive thing that happens in a Simpsonville back yard, and reading two paragraphs beforehand prevents it.
Board on board over a butted privacy fence
Pressure treated pine leaves the treatment tank wet and shrinks as it dries. On a butted privacy fence that shrinkage becomes daylight, which is the complaint we hear about two year old fences all over the newer Simpsonville neighborhoods. Board on board overlaps the pickets, so the same shrinkage eats into the overlap instead of opening the screen. It costs more lumber and we recommend it anyway.
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Questions we get asked
Wood Fence Installation questions from Simpsonville homeowners
My covenant says the finished side must face out. What does that actually mean?
It means your neighbor and the street get the smooth run of pickets and you get the rails and the post faces, on a standard privacy fence. The rule exists to keep the view from the road and from the lot next door consistent across the neighborhood, and boards in Simpsonville enforce it because one fence turned the wrong way is visible from a long way off.
There is a way around living with the framing, and it is the pattern rather than the orientation. Shadowbox and board on board both present pickets outward, and shadowbox shows pickets on your side too, so the rule is satisfied and nobody is staring at rails. We settle this at the quote, because reversing a finished fence means pulling every board off it.
Shadowbox or board on board for a Simpsonville back yard?
Shadowbox if the fence is about the property line and the look, board on board if it is about privacy. Shadowbox reads finished from both yards, passes wind instead of catching it on these open lots, and costs less than board on board. What it does not do is stay solid when you look at it from an angle, which people notice first around a pool or a patio.
Board on board keeps the screen closed and holds it closed as the lumber dries, because shrinkage disappears into the overlap rather than turning into a gap. It uses more boards, so the run costs more. We will walk the yard, stand where you actually sit, and tell you which one does what you are paying for.
Can I stain my wood fence any color I want in a Simpsonville neighborhood?
Usually not freely. Covenants that regulate fence material tend to regulate finish as well, and a stain color is an exterior change like any other, so it goes through the same architectural review. The practical move is to submit the stain with the fence, even if you will not apply it for a year, so you are not back in front of the board for a second approval later.
Timing matters separately from approval. Pressure treated pine comes out of the treatment wet and has to dry before it holds a finish, which in this climate usually means waiting a season. Cedar can be sealed sooner. Either way the wood gets washed and dried first, because stain over mildew locks the mildew in.
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