Fence Company in Simpsonville, SC

We are a fence company in Simpsonville, SC, and most of what we build here goes into a subdivision with a covenant attached. Simpsonville counted 23,354 residents at the 2020 census, up from 18,238 in 2010, and the neighboring Five Forks community grew from 8,064 people in 2000 to 17,737 in 2020. That growth arrived as platted subdivisions rather than scattered building, which is the single most important thing to understand about fencing here.

The town itself is older than the growth suggests. It was incorporated on 13 August 1901, and before that it was a crossroads where the Old Stage Road met the Georgia Road, with a post office called Plain from 1838 until the name changed in 1886. Today it anchors the Golden Strip along Interstate 385 with Mauldin and Fountain Inn, a nickname that stuck after Greenville ran water lines down the corridor in 1953. We have been building fences in the Upstate since 2018 and carry a 4.7 star average across 24 Google reviews.

A subdivision town, and what that does to a fence quote

Simpsonville's residential map is a set of large planned neighborhoods. Neely Farm, at Harrison Bridge Road and Neely Ferry Road, runs to more than 700 homes on its own. Holly Tree Plantation is built around a golf course. Kilgore Farms and the newer developments off Fairview and Scuffletown Roads follow the same pattern: one builder, a handful of elevations, uniform setbacks and a recorded set of covenants.

That uniformity cuts both ways. It helps, because the lots are flat, the lines are square, the corner pins are usually findable and a standard back yard enclosure goes in quickly and predictably. It limits you, because you do not get a free choice. Most Simpsonville covenants name the material, cap the height at six feet, require the fence to start behind the rear corner of the house and require written approval before anything is installed.

The practical effect is that black aluminum and white vinyl do most of the work in this town, while wood does less of it than it does five miles up the interstate in Mauldin. We will build what your committee approves, and we will tell you at the quote if the submission is likely to come back.

Graded lots, swales and the line you cannot block

A subdivision lot is not natural ground. The topsoil was stripped, the pad was cut and filled to drain, and what is left under your grass is compacted Cecil clay with a thin layer of sod over it. Cecil is the dominant Piedmont soil, kaolinite heavy, low shrink swell, and slow to drain on its own. On a graded lot it is slower still, because compaction closed what little structure the clay had.

So post holes in Simpsonville fill and stay full. The Upstate takes about 48 inches of rain a year against a US average of 38, and there is no dry season. A post set in a hole that holds water rots at grade, which is why we set to depth for wind load and saturated clay rather than to a frost line that barely exists here.

The other thing to find before the line is set is the drainage swale. Most Simpsonville back yards carry water from two or three neighbors along a graded low line, often inside a recorded drainage easement. A privacy fence dropped straight across that swale becomes a dam, and the first heavy storm puts water where it was never meant to go. We either leave a measured gap under the fence at the low point or step the run over it, and we show you which on the walk.

23,354 peopleLived in Simpsonville at the 2020 census, up from 18,238 in 2010, and nearly all of that growth arrived as covenanted subdivisions.

Getting through the architectural committee the first time

Most committees want four things: the material and color, the height, a site plan showing where the fence runs, and confirmation that it does not come forward of the house. We hand you the measurements and the material specification so the submission is not guesswork, and we hold the install date until you have the approval in writing.

Where people get caught is the shared line. In a neighborhood the size of Neely Farm, a good share of lots already have a fence on at least one side. Tying into a neighbor's existing fence saves money now and ties you to their material and their maintenance from then on, and it can put your gate on their post. We lay out both options with prices so the decision is yours before we dig.