White House, Tennessee Fence Company

Clean horizontal lines suit the newer builds going up around town, so flat-top aluminum and horizontal wood are the two styles we install most often on those homes. A three-rail flat-top panel keeps sight lines open across a compact lot, and horizontal boards give you privacy without the heavy look of a stockade wall. City zoning asks that the finished side of a fence face outward, and most subdivisions add their own HOA rules on top of that. We check both before we set a single post.

The city issues permits for both the Robertson and the Sumner halves of White House, so one office covers your project, whichever side the address sits on. No fence-specific permit is published in the city's materials, which makes the Planning and Codes department the office to ask before you order anything. Zoning still applies either way, and a fence over eight feet has to sit five feet off the property line, while a fifty-foot visibility triangle stays clear at corners. Our commercial fence crews handle the layout and the build once you know what the site allows.

The answer has less to do with the panel than with what supports it, because clay that shrinks and swells through the seasons is what loosens a post. We set posts below the loose surface layer so a fence line stays straight through several wet and dry cycles. Open styles such as steel or aluminum picket also take less wind pressure than a solid panel, which puts less leverage on a post when the ground is soft. A vinyl or wood privacy fence still performs well on this ground when the posts are set properly.

Height and a face that offers no footholds do most of the work, so we usually recommend ornamental steel or a tall chain link fence. Spear-top steel pickets discourage anyone from going over the top, and heavy-duty posts keep a panel from being pushed aside. Taller chain link suits a business perimeter, since it covers a lot of ground and still lets you see what is happening on the property. Lockable gate hardware closes the gap where a driveway or service entrance would otherwise be the weak point.

Ground conditions can change what a fence line requires, since a hole that hits rock or a slope that has to be stepped adds work to the day. We walk the entire line before we quote, so anything unusual shows up in the estimate rather than after the crew arrives. Rock refusal is more of a Central Basin problem than one we encounter here, but heavy, saturated clay slows a dig just as much. Financing is available through our lending partner if you would rather pay over time.