Fence installation in Aberdeen
Aberdeen is one of the older villages, near Flat Creek Country Club and Blue Smoke Park, so most fence work here replaces a run installed a generation ago rather than fencing a bare lot. That makes removal and haul away a real line on the quote.
An older village near Flat Creek Country Club and Blue Smoke Park, popular with retirees, so much of the work here is replacing fences installed a generation ago rather than fencing bare lots.
What is fence work like in Aberdeen?
Replacement, nearly all of it. The village is established, sits near Flat Creek Country Club and Blue Smoke Park, and its lots were fenced a long time ago.
So the job is rarely a bare boundary. It is taking something out, dealing with what is left in the ground, and putting a new run in its place. That is a different piece of work from a first installation, and it is priced differently.
What does the removal add?
$3 to $5 per linear foot on top of the installed price, for taking the old fence out and hauling it away.
It is the line people forget when comparing quotes. A price that looks lower may simply have left it out, and a fence cannot go in until the old one is gone. Check that both numbers are on both quotes before deciding anything.
Old concrete is the variable underneath that. A post set in a large collar has to be broken out rather than pulled, and nobody can see that from the street.
Can the old post holes be reused?
Almost never, and it is worth understanding why not.
The old hole is usually the reason the old fence leaned. Red clay holds water against a post, swells and shrinks with it, and works a shallow post loose over enough wet winters. Setting a new post into that same disturbed, compacted hole repeats the mistake with newer timber.
A proper reset means a clean hole 30 to 36 inches deep with six to eight inches of gravel underneath, so the water drains instead of sitting there. That is what separates a fence that lasts fifteen years from one that is visibly out of true by its third spring.
Are the boundaries where people think they are?
Not always, and on an older village this matters more than elsewhere.
A fence installed decades ago may sit a foot off the true line, and once the new run goes in on the correct boundary the change is visible to everyone either side. Pull the plat out of your closing package before work starts.
That same plat shows any easement or cart path setback, which is the other thing that decides where the new line can actually go.
Do I need a permit to replace a fence?
At four feet in height and above, yes. Replacing a fence is construction, and the permit rule is about height rather than about whether something stood there before.
This catches people out. The original fence may well have gone in without one, either because the rule was different or because nobody asked. That has no bearing on the replacement, which has to meet the ordinance as it stands now.