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.
Simpsonville, SC · Greenville County
Fence Repair in Simpsonville, SC
We put a hand on every post before we quote anything. On a builder graded lot the failure is almost always below the grass, and you cannot price what you have not felt move.
Fence repair in Simpsonville is usually a post problem wearing a board problem as a disguise. The town went from 18,238 people in 2010 to 23,354 in 2020, so most of these fences are between five and twenty years old, standing in ground that was graded flat by a builder and compacted before anyone planted grass on it.
We repair wood, vinyl, aluminum and chain link, including fences somebody else put in. Someone answers from 7am to 7pm seven days a week, weekends included, and the assessment is free, done on your property, with no deposit and nothing owed if you decide against the work. Since 2018 we have built and repaired 55 plus fences at a 4.7 star average from 24 Google reviews.
Why posts fail early on a graded Simpsonville lot
The topsoil came off these lots during construction and the compacted Cecil clay underneath drains slowly. A narrow post hole in it fills with water and does not empty, so the post spends most of its life damp. Wood goes soft at grade and steel corrodes at the same place, which is why the ground line is where nearly every repair we do in this town actually is.
That produces a specific diagnosis on arrival. A post that snapped clean at ground level with sound wood above it is rot from the wet. A post still solid but tilting as one piece is a footing that worked itself loose in soft clay. They look identical from the patio and they are two different repairs, so we test every post by hand rather than guessing from the lean.
48 inches of rain, against 38 nationallyLands on the Upstate each year, and a narrow hole in compacted clay keeps most of it right around the post.
The swale takes the post nobody is watching
Most back yards here carry a shared drainage swale inside a recorded easement, and the fence usually crosses it at the lowest point in the yard. That is the post that fails first and the one nobody looks at, because it sits in the corner behind the shed.
Two mechanisms are at work. Moving water washes soil out from around the footing until the post has less holding it than it started with, and a solid fence sitting flat on the ground dams the swale so water backs up against the boards and stays there. Once a post at the low end starts to move, the run either side follows within a season or two.
The repair is not just a new post. We reset it with a wider footing and crowned concrete, and where the fence has been damming the swale we build in a deliberate ground gap so the water passes under instead of piling against it. Otherwise you are buying the same repair again in three years.
A like for like repair rarely needs the committee
In Neely Farm, Holly Tree, Kilgore Farms and most neighborhoods around them, an architectural committee approved the fence originally. Putting back what was already there, at the same height, in the same material, on the same line, is generally a repair and not a new application.
It becomes an application the moment the repair quietly changes something. A taller run, a different material because the original is discontinued, or a new pattern while the boards are off anyway are all changes a committee may want to see. Vinyl is the usual trigger, because profiles and shades of white move between manufacturers and an exact match is sometimes not available at all.
We tell you at the assessment which of the two you have, so the paperwork happens before the work rather than after a neighbor mentions it.
What a fence repair job in Simpsonville includes
A Simpsonville repair visit covers the whole fence, not only the section you called about.
- A walk of the full run with a hand on every post to find the movers
- The failure mechanism identified, since rot at grade and a loose footing need different fixes
- A repair number and a replacement number given at the same visit
- Failed posts pulled with their old footings and reset in wide, crowned holes
- Swale crossings rebuilt with a ground gap so water stops damming against the boards
- Vinyl panels matched where a match exists, and said plainly when it does not
- Gates rehung after the hinge post is put right, not braced to hide the lean
- Damaged 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 Simpsonville.
Why choose us
Why Simpsonville calls us for fence repair
We count posts before we quote
The number of failed posts is what decides repair against replacement, and it is the one number most quotes never mention. Every post on your fence gets pushed by hand on the assessment visit. Two or three movers in a run that is otherwise standing is a repair worth doing. Around a third of them and the failures are arriving in sequence, and we will tell you that instead of selling you the first one.
We fix what the water is doing
On these lots the low corner is where the fence dies, because a shared swale runs through it and a solid fence sitting on the ground turns the swale into a pond. Replacing the post without changing that buys you the same repair again. We reset with a wider footing and build in a ground gap so water passes under the run, which is why the fix holds.
We pick up on weekends too
Storm damage lands on a Saturday morning far more often than a Tuesday afternoon, and a yard standing open with a dog in it cannot wait until Monday. We take calls every day of the week from 7am to 7pm, weekends included, and those jobs go to the front of the list. The assessment is free, on site, with no deposit. Eight years at this, and 4.7 stars across 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 Simpsonville homeowners
Do I need HOA approval to repair my fence in Simpsonville?
For a straight like for like repair, usually not. You are putting back the same height, the same material and the same line that the committee already approved, and most architectural rules treat that as maintenance rather than a new structure.
It changes if the repair changes the fence. A different material because the original is no longer made, a taller run, or a new board pattern while the boards are off can all need an application. We tell you which category your repair falls into at the assessment, and if it needs paperwork you will know before we order anything.
The post in the corner of my yard keeps leaning. Why that one?
Because it is almost certainly standing in the drainage swale. Water moving across the low point of the yard carries soil away from the footing, and if the fence sits flat on the ground it also dams the flow, so that post spends longer wet than any other on the property.
Resetting it the same way it was set gets you a few years at best. We pull the old footing, dig a wider hole, crown the concrete so water sheds off it and leave a deliberate gap under the fence where it crosses the low line. That fixes the mechanism rather than the symptom.
Can you match my vinyl fence if one panel is broken?
Sometimes, and we will look before promising. Vinyl profiles and shades of white vary between manufacturers and change over the years, so a ten year old panel may have no current equivalent at all.
Where there is no match, the honest options are to rebuild a full run so the difference reads as intentional rather than as a patch, or to move a panel from a hidden side of the yard into the visible gap and put the mismatched one where nobody looks. We show you both on the day rather than fitting something slightly off and hoping you do not notice.
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