Franklinville Fence Installation

Franklinville is strung along a mile or so of the Deep River, a mill village that grew up around the water and never sprawled far from it. The mill buildings and the dam are part of the town’s history, the rail trail along the river has become one of Randolph County’s better walks, and Faith Rock still sits above the water where it always has. Homes here tend to be older, on lots that were cut to fit the terrain rather than a grid.

That terrain drives the fence work. Yards run long and narrow, back lines fall away toward the river or climb a bank, and property boundaries in a village this old are not always where people assume they are. We locate pins before we set a line. Above the village, the land opens into wooded parcels and small farms where the work shifts to boundary rail, woven wire and driveway gates.

What the river bottom does to a fence line

Randolph County clay does not drain, and the low ground near the Deep River holds water longer than anywhere else in the county. Posts set shallow in that soil lean within a season or two, and a hard freeze finishes the job. We dig past the disturbed layer and set every post in concrete, and on the wet ends of a run we look at where the water actually moves during a storm before deciding on spacing. Summer thunderstorms and the tail ends of tropical systems both put a lot of water on this ground in a short time.

Treated pine with StayStrong pickets fits the character of the older homes here and is the most common privacy build. Vinyl with PrivacyLock interlocking panels is the low-maintenance alternative, and the HeartWood finish gives you the wood look without the sealing. For the acreage above town, split rail and post-and-rail mark the boundary, woven wire does the containment, and mesh-backed rail is what we build where horses are kept.

Call Superior Fence & Rail of The Triad at (336) 646-7288 or request a free on-site estimate. We answer around the clock and we put the full scope in writing before anything is ordered.