Fence Installation in Franklinton, NC

There are effectively two Franklintons, and they need different fences. The older one is the town grid around Main Street, where houses sit on narrow lots with mature hardwoods, side yards too tight for a skid steer, and property lines drawn generations ago. The newer one is out toward US-1 and the Youngsville line, where Raleigh’s growth has spilled north into fresh subdivisions with graded back yards and nothing between them.

On the older in-town lots, access drives the job. We hand-dig where equipment cannot get through a gate, we work around root systems instead of cutting through them, and we spend real time on the layout because a fence that follows a crooked old hedge line instead of the actual boundary causes problems the day someone sells. Style-wise, this is picket and rail territory as much as it is privacy fence, and HeartWood board or a painted wood picket sits right on a house with age to it.

Out on the edges of town, the requests look different: six-foot vinyl privacy in white or clay, built with PrivacyLock rails so the panels stay locked together through summer thunderstorms, or pressure-treated wood with StayStrong pickets when the budget favors it. Just past the subdivisions, Franklin County goes back to being farm country quickly, and we install plenty of split rail and woven wire on the acreage along NC-56 in both directions.

Every post goes in concrete regardless of which side of town you are on. Franklin County red clay holds water, freezes in January, and heaves posts that were only tamped in. That is also why we use galvanized hardware on wood fences, because gate hardware is usually the first thing to fail after a few humid summers and a couple of ice storms.

We answer the phone at (919) 335-4008 at any hour. Ask for a free on-site estimate and we will come walk the line with you.