GREAT company! Great personalities, and fantastic at getting the job done properly, and swiftly. They did a great job fixing my grandmother fence and she's so happy with it. Now the dogs can run freely and happily in the yard. Very hard workers the do an incredible job with great quality.
Mauldin, SC · Greenville County
Fence Repair in Mauldin, SC
In Mauldin the honest answer is sometimes that a repair is not worth your money. We push every post, count the movers and give you both numbers before anything gets taken apart.
Fence repair in Mauldin is dominated by age. The city was rechartered in 1969, five subdivisions were annexed in 1972 and I-385 brought the rest, so Knollwood with its 322 homes and Forrester Woods with 92 lots are now half a century old and the fences behind those houses have been in the ground almost as long.
A 1988 pine privacy fence has taken nearly forty winters in wet Piedmont clay, which puts most of these calls right at the line between a repair and a replacement. We assess free, on site, with no deposit, and someone answers from 7am to 7pm seven days a week. Since 2018 we have built and repaired 55 plus fences at 4.7 stars from 24 Google reviews.
The count decides it, not the worst section
People call about the part they can see from the kitchen window. We walk the whole run and put a hand on every post, because the number that move is the number that decides whether you are buying a repair or the first installment of a replacement.
Two or three movers in a fence that is otherwise standing is a repair and a sensible one. Once roughly a third of them rock, have gone soft at grade or are already leaning, the rest are on the same clock and the failures will arrive in sequence over the following few years. Spending half the cost of a new fence on a fence with two years left in it is the worst outcome available.
Boards mislead people in both directions. Gray, cupped pickets on sound posts will outlast whatever you would replace them with. Respectable looking boards on rotted posts are a fence that comes down in the next thunderstorm.
Forty year old footings are the expensive part
Almost all of the labor in a Mauldin repair is in the ground. A post that has been in since the 1970s or 1980s sits in concrete that has settled into the clay around it, and pulling that block out is slow work. Setting a new post beside it instead is the shortcut that guarantees a second call, because there is no room left for a proper hole.
The yard has also changed around the fence. Trees planted with the subdivision are mature now, and roots have grown into post positions that were open ground when the first fence went in. Inside a root zone we dig by hand and shift the post a few inches rather than cutting anything structural, then pick the line back up with a slightly longer rail span.
Nearly forty wintersIs what a 1988 Mauldin fence has already stood through, which is why the footing usually costs more to fix than the fence costs to buy.
Repairing on a boundary that is older than the paperwork
After four decades both households have mowed to the fence, planted against it and treated it as the line. A repair that puts a post back where it already was keeps all of that intact, which is one of the quiet advantages of repairing rather than replacing.
It only becomes a question when a section has to be rebuilt and somebody wants to move it. We look for survey pins at the assessment so you know where the recorded line sits before you decide, and in most cases the sensible answer is to rebuild exactly where the fence has always stood. Most older Mauldin neighborhoods predate covenants, so there is usually no committee to satisfy on top of that.
What a fence repair job in Mauldin includes
A Mauldin assessment gives you a diagnosis and two prices, and costs nothing either way.
- The full fence walked with a hand on every post and the movers counted
- Rot at grade told apart from a settled footing, since they need different repairs
- A repair figure and a replacement figure from the same visit
- Old concrete footings pulled out rather than worked around
- Hand digging inside the root zone of mature trees planted with the subdivision
- Posts reset in wide holes with crowned concrete and ground contact rated lumber
- Gates rehung after the hinge post is corrected, not braced to hide the lean
- Old material hauled away and the finished repair walked with you
The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our fence repair page. This page covers what changes in Mauldin.
Why choose us
Why Mauldin calls us for fence repair
We will tell you not to repair it
Mauldin is the most replacement heavy city we serve, and the useful thing we can do on half these visits is say so. If a third of your posts are moving, a repair buys you a couple of seasons and you pay for the same problem again. We give you the count, the repair price and the replacement price in one visit so you can compare them properly instead of calling a second company for the other number.
The old footing comes out
A forty year old block of concrete has settled into the clay and takes real effort to lift. Leaving it and setting the new post alongside is faster on the day and fails within a few seasons, because the new footing never gets the width it needs. We pull it and dig a full hole in clean ground. That is most of the labor in a Mauldin repair and it is the part worth paying for.
We answer every day from 7am
Storm damage and a fence down on a Saturday morning do not wait for a weekday appointment. We answer every day of the week from 7am to 7pm, weekends included, and a yard standing open with a dog in it goes to the front of the list. The assessment is free, on your property, with no deposit taken. Eight years in business and 4.7 stars from 24 Google reviews.
Rated 4.7 on Google
What customers say
Every review below is a real Google review from a customer in the Upstate. 24 reviews, 4.7 star average.
My fence started swinging off its hinges, but he fixed it. Now it functions flawlessly.
OMG I LOVE THE FENCE THESE GUYS PUT UP! Landscaping my bushes just got to be a little too pricey in this economy so when i contacted these guys they came in a swift manner with a reasonable price! i would give them 10 stars if i could
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Questions we get asked
Fence Repair questions from Mauldin homeowners
Half my fence is leaning. Can it be straightened or is it finished?
Push the posts. If the posts themselves are sound and the footings have simply shifted in saturated clay, a run can often be pulled back, re-plumbed and reset, and that is a genuine repair.
If the posts have snapped at ground level or gone soft where they enter the soil, straightening them is temporary and they will move again with the next storm. On a Mauldin fence of this age it is frequently a mix of the two, so the count matters more than the lean. We give you the number of failed posts before we give you a price.
Is it worth repairing a fence that went up in the 1980s?
It depends entirely on how the posts have held up, not on the date. Plenty of fences from that era are still standing on sound posts and only need boards, rails and a gate put right, and that is money well spent.
What is not worth doing is repeatedly replacing posts one at a time on a fence where most of them are on the way out. Nearly forty winters in wet clay is a long time for pressure treated pine in the ground. We count the movers, tell you what fraction of the fence is finished and let you make that call with real numbers.
Can you repair a fence around a tree that has grown into the line?
Yes. Where a failed post sits inside the root zone of a mature hardwood we dig it by hand rather than augering, because an auger that catches a two inch root either stalls or tears out wood the tree still needs.
If a root occupies the exact spot the post has to go, we move the post. A few inches either way with a slightly longer rail span is invisible once the fence is back up, and it costs far less than losing a tree that has been growing since the subdivision went in. We show you on the ground where we intend to move it before anything is dug.
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