Mint Hill Fence | Residential Fence Company for Aluminum, Wood Privacy, Vinyl & Chain Link Fence Installation and Repair

Powder-coated aluminum in flat-top, spear-top and puppy-picket styles, four to six feet tall, black or bronze. Each panel racks up to about 24 inches over its eight-foot width, so a sloped Mint Hill lot gets a fence that hugs the ground instead of stepping down it with a gap under every section. The metal itself cannot rust. The coating carries a 15 to 20 year warranty, and the 48-inch height with four-inch picket spacing meets the pool code without a single change. Black is nine orders in ten here; bronze goes on the red-brick ranches where black reads too hard against the wall. Our view: on a lot that drops two feet from the house to the back line, aluminum is the first fence to quote, and usually the last one standing.

Galvanized, powder-coated steel pickets for the estate look: finials, rings, arched tops, and matching walk and drive gates that tie into brick or stone columns. Steel is heavy. A panel weighs about three times what aluminum does, so the posts go deeper and every corner gets a concrete footing. Worth it on a 300-foot road frontage on an acre lot, where the stiffness shows; on a backyard it is money spent on strength nobody will test. Rust-resistant coatings keep it black for decades with a hose and a rag.

Six-foot privacy in pressure-treated pine or western red cedar, dog-ear or flat-top, with a cap rail where you want the finished look. Pine is still the most common fence in Mint Hill’s 1990s subdivisions. Most of those first fences are now 25 to 30 years old. The replacement goes in differently from the original: 6x6 posts at every corner and gate, a 2x6 kickboard at grade so the pickets never touch wet clay, and 3 rails instead of 2 on a six-foot panel. Cedar runs roughly a third more per foot, carries less weight on the posts, and the bugs leave it alone. We would rather see pine with a stain budget than cedar left to go grey.

Overlapping boards, a 2x6 cap and 1x4 trim, both faces finished. No gaps, ever. A plain privacy picket opens about a quarter inch in its first summer as the pine dries; board-on-board overlaps an inch and a half, so there is never a line of sight through it. It is the fence HOA boards say yes to on corner lots where both sides show, and it reads as the same fence from your yard and the street. Lumber runs about 20 percent more than dog-ear; the labor is the same day.

Virgin PVC with an aluminum channel inside the bottom rail, which is the difference between a panel that stays straight over eight feet and one that smiles by the second summer. Tongue-and-groove privacy boards at six feet behind the house, three- and four-foot picket out front, routed posts, UV inhibitors in the resin, and a lifetime manufacturer warranty on the color. Vinyl asks nothing of you. It does grow a green film on the shaded north side by year three, and a pressure washer takes it off in an hour. To be fair, it is also the most expensive panel to replace when a limb comes down on it.

Galvanized or black vinyl-coated chain link in 9 and 11 gauge, four to six feet tall, for back yards, dog runs and commercial lots. Corner and gate posts go in concrete, the mesh is stretched to a top rail and a bottom tension wire so a dog cannot lift it, and slats go in the mesh when you need screening at a chain link price. It is the budget fence. Black vinyl-coated costs a dollar or two more a foot and disappears against the tree line; bare galvanized is what the 1980s lots still have, and honestly it is the fence we take out most often.

Three- and four-board oak or pine on the one-acre-plus lots toward the Cabarrus and Union lines, with 2x4 no-climb woven wire behind the boards for horses and dogs and an electric top strand where a horse leans. Line posts at eight-foot centers, 5-inch round posts driven rather than dug where the ground allows it, and the wire run on the pasture side of the boards. Twelve- and sixteen-foot tube gates at the drive and the barn. Runs are long out there. Priced and scheduled by the hundred feet; a 900-foot pasture is about a week for one crew.

Two- and three-rail cedar or locust split rail in ten-foot sections for property lines and front yards, welded wire behind it for children and dogs. Four feet is plenty. It meets the Town’s five-foot front-yard rule with a foot to spare, and the Town’s rule is the reason we quote split rail in front of so many wooded Mint Hill lots, where a privacy panel would be the wrong scale. Locust posts outlast cedar in wet clay by about ten years and cost a few dollars more each.

The state’s residential pool barrier appendix sets the numbers: 48 inches tall at minimum, no opening a four-inch ball can pass through, and a gate that swings shut and latches by itself with the release 54 inches off the ground. Those numbers are not negotiable. Aluminum is the usual answer and removable mesh the second; both get built to those figures, and the Mecklenburg County inspection is scheduled before the crew leaves so the permit closes on one visit. It still surprises us how many builder-installed mesh barriers out here have the latch at 40 inches, where a six-year-old can reach it.

The pine privacy fences that went up with Mint Hill’s 1990s subdivisions are at the end of their life: posts rotted at grade, pickets loose, gates dragging. Posts go first. The clay holds water against the wood at grade, and the pickets above look fine for years after the post below has gone. Old wood, chain link or metal comes out, the concrete plugs come out of the ground with it, everything leaves on the trailer, and the new line goes in the same week with an HOA letter when the style changes. Removal runs about $3 to $5 a foot on a wood fence.

Snapped or heaved posts after a wet winter in red clay, blown-out panels, rotted bottom rails and a gate that will not latch. We quote the repair line by line and say plainly when more than a third of the posts have failed and replacement is the cheaper path. Single-panel and single-post repairs are half-day jobs. A post reset runs a couple hundred dollars, which is why we would rather fix one post this spring than a whole run next spring.

Ten- to sixteen-foot double drive gates in aluminum, steel or wood on welded steel frames, hung on 6x6 or 4-inch steel posts with drop rods and lockable latches. On a Mint Hill acre lot the drive gate is the first thing a visitor touches. Its posts go 42 inches down. A conduit goes in the trench now even if the keypad is a year away, because opening a finished drive twice is the expensive part. Walk gates to match, each one tuned to swing shut and latch on its own.