Privacy Fence Installation in Taylors, SC

Privacy fence installation in Taylors splits along the same line the town itself does. Small Southern Bleachery mill village lots with a fence already on the ground sit about three miles from Pebble Creek, a golf community of more than 430 homes spread over roughly 500 acres of woodland, ponds and creeks with the ground climbing toward Paris Mountain.

Taylors is a census designated place of 23,222 people with no city government at all, so there is no local fence ordinance and unincorporated Greenville County rules apply. We quote free, on site, no deposit, seven days a week from 7am to 7pm, with 55 plus fences behind us since 2018 and a 4.7 star average from 24 Google reviews.

Stepped or racked on a Pebble Creek slope

On sloping ground a fence can do one of two things. It can step, holding each panel level and dropping between posts like a staircase, or it can rack, following the grade so the boards stay parallel with the ground. On a picket fence that is a matter of taste. On a privacy fence it decides whether you actually get privacy.

Stepping leaves a triangular gap under every panel, widest at the downhill post. On a gentle grade that is a few inches. On a real Pebble Creek slope it can be a foot or more, which a dog walks straight through and which a neighbor can see under from a seated deck. Racking keeps the bottom tight to the ground but the top line follows the terrain instead of running level.

• Stepped: level panels, a crisp top line, gaps under the low end of every run
• Racked: tight to the ground the whole way, top line follows the slope
• Stepped with a fill board or a retaining course below: closes the triangles at extra cost
• Vinyl and steel panel rack only within the limits the panel allows, so steep ground often points back to wood

Ponds, creeks and where the water goes

Pebble Creek carries woodland, ponds and creeks across its 500 acres, and ground that falls toward water is ground that moves water. A solid six foot fence run straight down a slope catches everything coming off the yard above it, and if the bottom is sealed tight that water piles against the boards and works at the soil around the low posts.

So the bottom of the fence gets planned rather than assumed. Where a run crosses a natural drainage path we leave a deliberate gap sized to let water and leaf litter through, and the posts nearest the low ground get wide holes and concrete crowned to shed water rather than hold it. Cecil clay drains slowly at the best of times, and around 48 inches of rain a year gives it plenty to do.

Ground contact rated posts matter more at the bottom of a lot than at the top, and South Carolina sits in one of the heaviest termite pressure zones mapped in the residential code.

Mill village runs and the fence already standing

Around the old Southern Bleachery, which ran from 1924 until 1965 and is on the National Register, the lots are small and there is very often a fence on at least one boundary already. That turns a privacy job into a matching job. The new run has to meet whatever is there at a sensible height and not leave an awkward step where the two meet.

Short runs also make the pattern decision cheap. Going from butted boards to board on board across eighty or a hundred feet is a small number in real money, and it is the difference between a screen that holds and one that opens up as the pine dries out over its first year.

No city hall and no fence ordinanceApplies in Taylors, so unincorporated Greenville County rules are the only ones that govern your fence.

What a privacy fencing job in Taylors includes

A Taylors privacy quote deals with the ground first, because on most of these lots the ground is the problem.

• Unincorporated Greenville County requirements confirmed for your address
• The slope walked and measured, with stepped and racked both priced where it matters
• A plan for the bottom of the fence, including gaps where water needs to pass
• Neighborhood association rules checked in Pebble Creek before material is ordered
• Matching to an existing neighbor fence on mill village lots, at height and line
• Ground contact rated posts, wide holes and crowned footings at the low end of the lot
• Gates hung on upsized posts and set level even where the run is not
• Old fence and footings removed, 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 Taylors.