Fence Installation in Siloam, NC

Siloam sits on the Yadkin River in the southern end of Surry County, where NC 268 runs along the river and the land flattens out into bottomland before rising back into pasture. That transition, from river bottom to red clay upland, is the defining feature of almost every fence job here, and it is the reason a run that behaves perfectly on one end can loosen up on the other.

The bottoms are productive ground and they are also the ground that floods. When we walk a line down here the first question is how high the water gets and how often, because the honest design in a flood path is different from the design fifty yards up the bank. Braced corners and gate posts belong on firm high ground. Fence in the water’s path should let debris through rather than catch it, because a fence that dams a rising creek becomes a wall and then becomes wreckage.

Above the bottoms it is standard Surry County work: woven field wire on braced corners for cattle, mesh-backed rail where horses are kept, and board or split rail nearer the house. Clay up there does what clay does, holding water against a post and lifting it every time the ground freezes after a wet stretch, which is why every post goes into concrete below the frost line regardless of what kind of fence it belongs to.

Distance is a logistics question and we handle it by staging materials on the property and running the install as consecutive days rather than scattered visits. A long boundary with several gates is a multi-day job, but it should not be a multi-week one.

Call (336) 646-7288 whenever it is convenient, day or night, and we will schedule a time to come out and price it on site for free.