Fence Company in Tigerville, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in Tigerville, SC, a census designated place of 1,244 people spread over about one and a third square miles in the far north of Greenville County. It is an old settlement in what people around here have long called the Dark Corner, with Tyger Baptist Church dating to around 1800 and the first post office opening in a general store in 1881.

The thing that makes Tigerville different from every other small place we serve is that the student body is larger than the town. North Greenville University has sat here since 1892, when it opened as the first high school in the northern part of the county, and its 380 acre campus now carries an undergraduate enrollment of roughly two thousand, about eighteen miles north of Greenville. That creates a fence market you would not expect from the population figure.

Rental property, and building for turnover

A lot of housing near campus is rented, often to people who will be gone in a year or two. That changes what a fence has to be good at. An owner who lives in the house wants a fence that looks right from the kitchen window for twenty years. A landlord wants a fence that survives ten tenants who did not choose it, did not pay for it, and will not be maintaining it.

For that second case we steer hard toward chain link, and we mean it as a compliment to the material. Galvanized or black vinyl coated fabric does not warp, cup, rot or need staining, it takes a slope without custom cutting, and the only realistic failure mode is somebody driving into it. Black coated fabric costs a little more and looks considerably better from the street, which matters if the property is being shown.

Where wood is the requirement, the details that keep a rental fence standing are the boring ones. Ground contact rated posts, because South Carolina sits in one of the heaviest termite pressure zones mapped in the residential code. Concrete set below the frost line is not the issue up here; saturated clay and wind load are. Hinges and latches heavy enough to take a gate being pushed rather than opened.

1,244 residents, roughly 2,000 undergraduatesTigerville at the 2020 census against current North Greenville University enrollment, which is why so much of the housing here is rented rather than owned.

Sloped, wooded, and hard to dig

Step off the developed ground and Tigerville is hill country. Parcels are larger, the tree cover is heavy, and almost no property line runs level for long. That has three practical effects on a fence.

• The line has to be found and often cleared before it can be priced, because survey pins on a wooded northern Greenville County parcel sit under leaf litter and undergrowth
• Runs get raked to follow the grade where something has to be contained, and stepped only where a gap at the bottom of each panel does not matter
• Augers hit rock, so posts get shifted, holes get worked by hand, or the setting gets changed, and we tell you which one happened

Water is the quiet problem. Cecil clay drains slowly anywhere in the Upstate, and on a slope the runoff that does not soak in travels along the fence line and collects at the low end. The posts that fail first on a hillside run are always the bottom few. We open those holes wider and set them with drainage in mind instead of treating the whole line as identical.

Then there is the wildlife. Gardens and young fruit trees this far north need seven to eight feet of deer fence to be worth planting. A four foot garden fence up here simply tells the deer where the vegetables are.

Church, campus and field work

A community built around a university and old churches generates fence work that a village of twelve hundred otherwise would not. Ball field perimeters and backstops. Tennis and pickleball surrounds. Screened equipment and dumpster areas. Perimeter fence and gates on parking that has to stay open during the week and close on an event schedule.

That work gets scheduled around the institution rather than around us, which is part of why we run seven days a week, 7am to 7pm. Fencing a lot on a Saturday instead of a Tuesday is often the difference between a job that inconveniences nobody and one that shuts down a parking area for two days.