Fence installation in Wilksmoor
Wilksmoor is the newest village in Peachtree City and includes the Planterra Ridge area, so lots here are more often unfenced. The work is usually a first installation with a fresh permit rather than a replacement, which changes both the paperwork and the planning.
The newest village, including the Planterra Ridge area, so lots are more often unfenced and the work is a first installation with a fresh permit rather than a replacement.
What is fencing like in Wilksmoor?
Mostly first-time work. Wilksmoor is the newest of the five villages, taking in the Planterra Ridge area, and a good share of its lots have never carried a fence.
That makes the job simpler in one way and harder in another. Nothing has to come out, so the removal charge that dominates work in the older villages does not apply. But there is no existing line to follow either, which means every decision is yours to make from scratch.
What does a first installation save?
The removal. Replacement work carries $3 to $5 per linear foot for taking the old fence out and hauling it away, and on a full perimeter that is a real number.
Against that, a new lot may need more fence rather than less. Builders rarely fence the whole boundary, and the run you are pricing is the entire perimeter instead of the one side that failed.
Where should the fence actually go?
Get the plat out first. On a newer lot the survey is recent and accurate, which is an advantage the older villages do not have.
It shows the boundary, any utility or drainage easement, and whether a cart path runs behind you. A fence built inside an easement can be pulled out whenever a crew needs to reach the pipe or cable buried under it, and putting the fence back afterwards is your expense rather than the utility’s, which is a much better thing to discover now than in five years. Better to know before choosing where the line runs.
If a paved path does cross the rear, no fence may be installed within four feet of its edge, measured from the pavement rather than from your boundary.
Do I need a permit?
At four feet in height and above, yes. A first fence is construction, and the threshold is about height rather than history.
The application asks for the material and the height, a site plan on an official plat or survey, and a photograph of the fence you intend to build. On a new build the plat is easy to find, which makes this the least painful version of the process anywhere in the city.
Does new ground behave differently?
Not really, and this catches people out on a new build.
The soil under a recent development is the same red clay. It holds water, swells and shrinks with it, and works a shallow post loose over a few wet winters whatever the age of the house above it. Posts want 30 to 36 inches of depth and six to eight inches of gravel underneath.
Disturbed ground from construction can be looser than undisturbed clay nearby, which makes the depth more important rather than less. Ask what the contractor is setting to.
What do people build here?
A mix, and there is no established pattern to follow yet.
Wood at $18 to $38 per linear foot is the common first fence. Vinyl at $25 to $50 costs more and does not rot in ground that stays damp through 50 inches of rain a year. On a house someone intends to stay in, that difference tends to pay for itself.