Chain Link Fence Installation in Powdersville, SC

Chain link fence installation in Powdersville is almost always a first fence. This is the fastest growing corner of Anderson County, 10,025 people across about 13.9 square miles at the 2020 census, sitting right on the Greenville County line with the Saluda River as the boundary. The subdivisions filling in off Highways 153 and 81 were farmland a few years ago, and the back yards behind them have never had a post in them.

That makes the digging clean and the drainage terrible, which is a trade most people do not expect. There are no old footings, no buried brick and no century old roots in the line. What there is instead is stripped, compacted clay that holds water in a post hole all winter. We quote every one of these on site, free, seven days a week, and we have been setting posts in Anderson County ground since 2018.

What stripped clay does to a steel post

Building one of these subdivisions meant scraping the topsoil off a field, cutting and filling to make pads, and running heavy equipment over what was left. The Cecil series clay underneath is dense and kaolinite heavy, so it holds its shape well and drains slowly, and after that compaction it drains slower still.

A narrow hole in that ground is a bucket. Chain link corrodes at the ground line first, so a post standing in water most of the year gives out at grade while the fabric above it is untouched. That is the single most common chain link failure we get called to look at, and it is set in the day the post goes in.

The answer is in the hole rather than in the fabric. Wide enough for concrete to grip the pipe all the way around, deep enough for the height of the fence, and crowned at the top so water sheds off the footing instead of collecting against the steel. On a new lot with no trees the wind load matters too, since there is nothing between an open field and your fence.

48 inches of rain a yearFalls on Anderson County against a US average of 38, and on graded clay most of it leaves across the surface rather than down through it.

Tying in, or setting your own line

On a five year old street everybody fences within a couple of seasons of each other, so by the time you call us there is often a fence already standing on one or two of your boundaries. The question is whether to meet it or run your own.

Chain link makes that decision less flexible than wood does. Fabric has to be stretched against a terminal post, and that post has to be yours. Pulling a hundred feet of tensioned fabric against a neighbor's post makes their fence part of your structure, and if it drifts, both runs move. We set our own terminals just inside your pin and leave their fence alone.

Where a neighbor has not fenced yet, the reverse applies. Building on the line rather than inside it means the next owner of that lot inherits a fence they did not buy and may not want to maintain. We mark both options on the ground during the quote so you can see what a few inches costs and what it settles.

Developer covenants and Anderson County rules

Powdersville has no town government. It is a census designated place, so county rules apply and there is no municipal fence ordinance to satisfy. The document that actually governs your fence is the covenant the developer recorded before the first house sold, and in a first generation subdivision that document was written for the builder's benefit rather than by residents.

Those covenants often restrict chain link to the rear yard, require a dark coating, or cap the height at four feet. It is worth pulling the paperwork out of your closing packet before you decide on a finish, because black vinyl coated and galvanized are not the same price and only one of them may be allowed.

What a chain link fencing job in Powdersville includes

A Powdersville chain link quote covers the ground conditions and the boundary questions that come with a new lot.

• A walk of the line with your plat and corner pins located before layout
• Utility locate request, plus flagging of new irrigation and landscape lighting
• Holes dug wide for concrete grip, with the footing crowned to shed water
• Your own terminal, corner and gate posts, set inside the boundary rather than on it
• Post depth set for wind load on an open lot with no tree cover
• Galvanized or black vinyl coated fabric, machine tensioned and correctly tied
• Bottom tension wire or a buried apron where a digging dog is the reason for the fence
• Clay spoil hauled off instead of left to bake on new sod

The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our chain link fence installation page. This page covers what changes in Powdersville.