Fence Company in Fountain Inn, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Fountain Inn, SC, and most of what we build here goes up behind a house that was finished in the last fifteen years. Fountain Inn counted 10,416 people at the 2020 census against 7,799 in 2010, and the subdivisions responsible for that jump are still filling in lot by lot.

New construction changes the job in ways that are easy to miss until the augers come off the trailer. The topsoil left with the grading crew, the back corner pins are still findable, the drainage swale the builder cut runs somewhere across the rear of the lot, and an architectural committee has an opinion about all of it. We quote on site, free, with no deposit, seven days a week from 7am to 7pm.

Fencing a new build in Fountain Inn

A builder hands over a lot that has been cut, filled and sodded. What sits under that sod on most Fountain Inn streets is Cecil series red clay with very little topsoil left over it. Cecil is the dominant Piedmont soil, mapped across more than 10 million acres of the southeastern Piedmont, and it is kaolinite heavy, so it holds its shape and barely swells. It also drains slowly, and a narrow hole punched into it acts like a bucket.

That is a digging and backfill question, not a reason to wait. Holes go wide enough for the concrete to get a grip, deep enough for the height and the wind load, and crowned at the surface so rain sheds off instead of standing against the post. The Upstate takes roughly 48 inches of rain a year against a national average of 38, so there is always water looking for somewhere to sit.

Before we price anything on a new lot, we walk it looking for the things that move a fence line:

• The rear drainage or utility easement, which is often the last ten or fifteen feet of the yard
• The swale the builder graded, because a solid fence set across it will dam leaves and silt
• Irrigation heads and low voltage lighting the landscaper buried after the house closed
• The HVAC pad, the meter and the tap box, all of which need working clearance
• Corner pins, which on a house this new are usually still in the ground and worth finding

10,416 people in 2020Up from 7,799 in 2010. Almost all of that arrived as new subdivision housing, which is why so many Fountain Inn fences are a first fence rather than a replacement.

Architectural committees and what they usually allow

If your house was built in the last twenty years, assume there is a committee and assume the covenants require written approval of material, color, height and location before work starts. The pattern across Fountain Inn neighborhoods is fairly consistent: black aluminum accepted almost anywhere, vinyl accepted in white or tan behind the house line, six foot wood privacy accepted in the rear, and galvanized chain link refused outright.

We give you the material spec and a sketch of the line before you submit, so the committee approves the fence we actually intend to build rather than a description that has to be revised later. Approval commonly runs a couple of weeks. We book the install around that date.

Corner lots are where people get caught. Two street frontages means the front yard rule applies on two sides, and the height you were planning for the back may not be allowed along the side street. It is cheaper to find that out on paper.

One city, two counties

Fountain Inn is an incorporated city that spans the Greenville County and Laurens County line, which matters more on paper than in the ground. Which side you are on decides which county recorded your plat and holds the easement records for your street. Our service area is built around Anderson County and Greenville County, so give us the address when you call and we will tell you straight away whether you are inside it.

Being a city also means Fountain Inn has its own zoning ordinance, which is not true of the unincorporated communities closer to Greenville. South Carolina has no statewide fence permit and no state height limit, so those questions are answered locally, and in Fountain Inn that means city hall rather than a county office.

Growth has brought work beyond back yards. Fountain Inn High School opened in August 2021, the first entirely new high school built in Greenville County in nearly fifty years and the first the city has had since 1956. Schools, churches and daycare play yards all need fencing that survives daily use, and we handle that side as well.