Fence Company in Honea Path, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Honea Path, SC, and most of what we build here is short, which changes how a job should be quoted.

Honea Path counted 3,686 people in 2020. It grew up around Chiquola Mill, which started running in 1903 and stayed the town's economic center for a century. The village the mill built is still the shape of the town, and it is the reason a fence quote here rarely involves hundreds of feet of line. The company laid those blocks out with houses of similar size on lots of similar size, and that regularity carries right through to where a fence can go.

Mill village blocks and short fence runs

A typical Honea Path back yard needs somewhere between 80 and 180 feet of fence. That sounds cheap and it is cheaper than a big subdivision job, but not in proportion. Every fence carries fixed work regardless of length: the measure, the utility locate, getting a truck and a trailer onto a narrow street, mixing concrete, setting the first and last posts dead accurate because everything else follows them. On a short run those fixed pieces are a bigger share of the price, which is why the cost per foot on 100 feet never matches the cost per foot on 600.

We quote the job rather than a rate per foot, and we will tell you plainly where the money is going. Access is part of it. The older streets here have little room between houses, and if a gate opening is too tight for a machine we carry material and dig by hand, which takes longer and gets priced honestly rather than discovered later.

What tends to set the layout on these lots:

• A detached shed or garage sitting close to the line, which the fence has to meet cleanly rather than dodge
• Driveways that are shared or nearly shared with the house next door
• Power drops, meter bases and old service lines running through the side yard
• A back line that three neighbors all touch at one corner
• Existing fence on one or two sides already, built to a height the new run should probably match

Matching what is already on the block

In a village where the houses were built to a pattern, fences look wrong when they break it. Half the calls we take here start with the customer saying they want something close to what is already next door. That is a reasonable instinct and easy to do. We measure the existing height, picket width and rail layout and build to it, and where the old fence is a profile nobody stocks anymore we get as near as the lumber yard will allow and tell you in advance where the eye will catch the difference.

Shadowbox earns its keep here more than anywhere else in the county. With boards alternating on both sides of the rail, neither yard gets the framing and neither neighbor has an argument to make. It also lets Upstate wind pass through instead of pushing on a solid panel, which matters on a fence run that has no tree line in front of it.

Honea Path holds onto its own history, including hard parts of it. Mill guards fired into a crowd of picketers here on 6 September 1934, killing six and wounding about thirty during the national textile strike. The town also took a Carnegie library branch in 1908, the smallest town in South Carolina to get one. None of that changes how a post goes in the ground. It does explain why people here expect a contractor to deal with them straight.

Chain link, wood, and what suits a small lot

Chain link remains the sensible pick for a lot of Honea Path yards. It contains a dog, it marks the line, it goes up in a day or two on a short run, and black vinyl coated fabric disappears into a hedge far better than most people expect. Where privacy is the real goal, slats woven through chain link are a compromise rather than a solution, and we say so.

For solid screening, treated pine privacy is the common answer and a picket suits the front of an older mill house better than anything else. Keep the picket low, three or four feet, and the porch still reads the way it was built to read.