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Greenville, SC · Greenville County
Privacy Fence Installation in Greenville, SC
Six feet is all the city will give you at the side and rear, so height is not the decision here. Whether the fence still screens the yard in year three is.
Privacy fence installation in Greenville meets the city rulebook before it meets the ground. Residential fences inside the city are held to 3 feet in a front yard and 6 feet in side and rear yards, which settles the height question for almost everybody and leaves pattern, material and line as the decisions that are actually yours.
We build across the city and the unincorporated county around it, from the bungalow streets off Augusta Road out to the newer blocks past Pelham Road. Quotes are free, taken on your property, with no deposit and no obligation, seven days a week from 7am to 7pm. Since 2018 we have put up more than 55 fences in the Upstate at a 4.7 star average from 24 Google reviews.
Why a Greenville privacy fence opens up in its second summer
Treated pine arrives carrying water and gives it back over its first year in the ground, narrowing across the width of every board as it goes. On a half acre lot you notice that in year three. On a Greenville side yard where the fence stands nine feet from your kitchen window and nine feet from the one opposite, you notice it the following summer.
That is why the board pattern carries more weight here than the material does. Board on board overlaps each board across the one beside it, so the shrinkage eats into the overlap instead of opening daylight, and it looks identical from both sides, which matters when two households are close enough to study it.
- Butted boards: solid the day we leave, daylight through it by the next dry spell
- Board on board: more lumber up front, still a solid screen in year five
- Shadowbox: air passes through, private head on and open from an angle, and on a narrow lot most sight lines are angles
- Vinyl or steel panel: nothing shrinks, so nothing opens
Setting a full run of posts between two 1920s houses
A privacy fence carries more material per foot than anything else we build, and on the older side of town every bit of it goes down the side yard by hand. Lots here are deep and narrow, laid out before anyone was parking a truck beside the house, and a machine simply will not fit between them.
Roots are the other constraint, and a new run handles them differently from a repair. Replace one failed post and you can shift it a few inches around a root and nobody will ever know. On a fresh privacy line the posts sit on a spacing the rails and boards have to follow, so one oak root moves the whole layout rather than one hole. We probe the line at the quote and plan the spacing around what is under the grass.
Structural roots stay put. A hundred year old willow oak is worth more than a straight auger run, and there is no fixing one that has been cut on two sides.
Corner lots, driveway aprons and what you may not block
An early twentieth century street grid produces a great many corner lots, and a corner lot is where a six foot solid fence runs into its real limit. City of Anderson development standards are the clearest statement of the problem in this region: nothing forming a material impediment to visibility may sit between 42 inches and 10 feet above roadway grade inside a protected sight triangle. A six foot privacy fence sits right through the middle of that band.
Greenville handles corner visibility under its own standards, so we confirm what applies at your address during the quote. The shape of the answer is usually the same. Privacy stops short of the corner, drops to a 3 foot picket for the last stretch, or steps back off the intersection. All three are ordinary. Finding out after the concrete has cured is not.
Seven local historic districtsReview what is visible from the street in Greenville, so on those blocks the fence is a design conversation before it is a price.
What a privacy fencing job in Greenville includes
Every Greenville privacy quote starts with the rulebook for your address and ends with a line staked on the ground.
- A check of whether your address sits inside the city limits or in unincorporated Greenville County
- Height confirmed against the 3 foot front and 6 foot side and rear caps in the city
- Historic district review flagged at the quote where the fence will be seen from the street
- Corner and driveway sight lines walked before the layout is set
- Post spacing planned around structural roots, with hand digging inside the root zone
- Board on board priced next to butted boards so both numbers are in front of you
- Material carried in by hand where a side yard will not take a machine
- Old fence and its footings pulled, hauled off, and the finished line walked with you
The full breakdown of materials, process and pricing factors lives on our privacy fence installation page. This page covers what changes in Greenville.
Why choose us
Why Greenville calls us for privacy fencing
We tell you which Greenville you are in
A Greenville mailing address can sit inside the city or out in unincorporated Greenville County, and those are two different rulebooks for the same fence. One caps you at 3 feet in front and 6 feet at the sides and rear and reviews street facing work in seven historic districts. The other does not. We settle which one applies before any material is ordered, because a fence built to the wrong book comes back down.
The pattern conversation happens at the quote
Nobody is disappointed by a privacy fence on the day it goes up. They are disappointed eighteen months later when the boards have dried and the yard is visible again. On a narrow city lot that gap is nine feet from two sets of windows, so we price butted boards and board on board side by side and explain what each one looks like in year five. You pick with both numbers in front of you.
Seven days a week, and hand work where it is needed
We answer from 7am to 7pm every day of the week, weekends included, and quotes are free on site with no deposit taken. On the older streets we dig by hand, carry material down the side yard and set the run around roots rather than through them. One of our Google reviewers wrote that the installers were experienced and made fence installation a snap. Eight years in, 4.7 stars from 24 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.
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.
They gave me a free quote. They were very helpful with my questions and concerns. They have some beautiful ideas and work.
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Questions we get asked
Privacy Fence Installation questions from Greenville homeowners
How tall can a privacy fence be in the city of Greenville?
Inside the city limits, residential fences are capped at 3 feet in a front yard and 6 feet in side and rear yards, so a six foot back yard screen is standard and a tall fence across the front is not an option.
South Carolina sets no statewide height limit and issues no statewide fence permit, which means every number comes from the local rulebook. If your address is in unincorporated Greenville County rather than the city, the county rules apply instead, and a neighborhood association can be stricter than either. We check all of that at the quote.
Is board on board worth the extra money on a small city lot?
On a narrow Greenville lot it usually is, because the fence is close enough to both houses that a quarter inch gap reads as a window. Board on board overlaps the boards so shrinkage is absorbed by the overlap, and the screen you paid for is the screen you still have in year five.
It is not free. The pattern uses noticeably more lumber, which is the whole of the price difference. On a short side yard run that difference is small in real money. On a long rear line it is not, and plenty of customers put butted boards along the back and board on board down the side where people actually walk past.
Can I put a six foot privacy fence on a Greenville corner lot?
Across the back, yes. Along the street side of a corner lot it depends on the visibility rules for your address, because a solid fence standing six feet tall blocks exactly the band of sight that corner rules exist to protect.
The practical answers are all straightforward once you know them at the layout stage. Hold the privacy run back from the intersection, step it down to picket height for the final stretch, or turn the line and bring it up the lot instead. We walk the corner and the driveway apron with you before anything is dug, which costs nothing, while moving a cured fence costs more than building it did.
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