Fence Company in Greer, SC

We are a fence company in Greer, SC, working both the Greenville County and the Spartanburg County sides of the city. Greer counted 35,308 people at the 2020 census, which makes it the 14th most populous city in South Carolina, and it has grown 148 percent since 2000. Very little of that growth looks like the town it used to be, and the fence market here reflects both the old Greer and the new one.

The city sits midway between Greenville and Spartanburg, with BMW Manufacturing here since 1994, Inland Port Greer moving freight and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport next door. That industrial base pulls commercial fence work most Upstate towns this size never see. On the residential side we have been building since 2018, more than 55 fences, with a 4.7 star average across 24 Google reviews, and every quote is free and done on site.

One city, two counties, four kinds of lot

Greer's oldest housing is mill village housing. Victor, Apalache, Franklin and Greer Mill anchored the local economy, and the worker cottages around them still stand on small, tight frontages. Victor Mill itself closed in 2001 and was razed after a fire in 2006, leaving roughly 24 acres near downtown, but the village street pattern around it did not change. Fence runs there are short, the neighbors are close, and matching what already stands next door matters more than picking a favorite.

Then there are the subdivisions of the 1970s through the 1990s. Sugar Creek is the biggest, more than 800 homes on lots averaging four tenths to half an acre, built from the mid 1970s through the 1990s. A half acre back yard means a long run, two or three gates and a real conversation about cost per foot, because the gap between materials multiplies fast at that length.

Thornblade, established in 1988 around a Tom Fazio course, holds close to 400 lots ranging from a quarter acre to more than half an acre, with roughly a quarter of them bordering the golf course. Golf frontage changes the answer, because a solid privacy panel on a fairway lot is usually not allowed and usually not wanted. Powder coated aluminum in black or bronze does that work instead. Further out toward the county lines the parcels run to several acres, and that is field fence, split rail and horse fence country.

Which rulebook applies at your address

Greer straddles the Greenville County and Spartanburg County line, and plenty of what people call Greer sits outside the city limits in one county or the other. Three different jurisdictions can apply within a few miles. Inside the city, Greer sets its own fence heights and placement rules. In unincorporated Greenville County no fence permit is pulled at all, though height, placement and easements still govern. South Carolina has no statewide fence permit and no state height limit, so this is always a local question.

We confirm which set applies before we price the job, because the answer can change how tall the fence is allowed to be and where it can start relative to the front of the house. It takes one call at the quote stage and it saves a rebuild later.

What BMW and the inland port did to the fence market

Greer carries a density of warehouses, distribution yards, logistics operators and supplier plants that a city of 35,000 would not otherwise have. That work is nothing like residential fencing. It is heavier pipe, thicker fabric, top rail or top tension wire rated for perimeter duty, gates sized for tractor trailers rather than mowers, and a schedule built around shift changes and truck traffic.

We handle both sides of it. A homeowner in Sugar Creek and a facilities manager at a distribution yard near the inland port get the same free on-site quote with no deposit, and very different specifications, because a fence that holds a dog and a fence that holds a perimeter are not the same fence.

148 percentGrowth in Greer's population since 2000, which is why mill cottages and brand new subdivisions sit within the same few square miles.