Nolensville has gone from a farming crossroads to one of the tightest housing markets in Williamson County in less time than most fences last. Bent Creek, Scales Farmstead, Fairington, Burkitt Village, homes in these neighborhoods sit close enough that the neighbor's patio furniture is basically part of your view. A privacy fence is usually one of the first calls a new owner makes. Here is what actually goes into putting one up in Nolensville.
The Standard Setup
Six feet tall, board-on-board, posts set in concrete. It's the fence you will see on most lots around town, and it earns the reputation. The height blocks a sight line from ground level to well above head height, so you get a real backyard instead of a strip of grass everyone can see into. Board-on-board overlaps the pickets so there is no gap even after the wood dries out and shrinks a little, which it will do every fall.
Standard dog-ear pickets with a tight seam, under a quarter inch between boards, cost less and still give solid privacy for most yards. Shadow box, where boards alternate front and back on the rail, looks good from both sides and lets a little air through, but it leaves small sight-line gaps that board-on-board does not have. For a full rundown of styles, our board-on-board and shadowbox page breaks down the tradeoffs.
HOA Rules Change By Neighborhood, Not By Street
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Nolensville has more active HOAs per capita than almost anywhere in Williamson County, and each one runs its own architectural review board with its own opinion on fences. Bent Creek might approve stained cedar without blinking. Scales Farmstead or Burkitt Village might require a specific stain color, a specific board style, or the good side of the fence facing the neighbor and the street. Fairington, still adding phases as builders finish out new sections, has its own submittal process on top of that. None of this is guesswork. It is written down in the covenants your closing attorney handed you, and it is worth reading before you pick a style, not after the fence is already up and the HOA letter shows up.
We pull the guidelines for your specific community before we quote, and if your board requires drawings, we submit them. That is standard practice here, not an upsell, because getting it wrong on a Nolensville lot means tearing out work that was just finished. For the broader picture on what each city and county actually requires, our fence permits and HOA rules guide covers it in more detail.
Corner Lots and the Sight Triangle
Nolensville has plenty of corner lots, and a corner lot changes the rules in a way a lot of homeowners do not see coming. Zoning here tends to treat both street-facing sides of a corner property as front yards, not one front and one side. That side yard you were picturing for a tall privacy run may legally be a second front yard with its own height limit.
On top of that, the town limits fence height inside the sight triangle where two streets meet, so a driver stopped at the intersection can actually see oncoming traffic. The same visibility rule usually applies where a driveway meets the street too. We do not guess at the exact dimensions here because the town sets them and updates them, so we call Nolensville codes or planning directly before laying out a corner-lot fence rather than working from memory. If your lot is on a corner, our corner lot fence and sight triangle guide walks through what that means for height, setbacks, and where the privacy section can actually start.
What's Under the Ground
Middle Tennessee sits on karst limestone, and Nolensville is no exception. A post hole that goes twenty inches down without hitting anything in one part of a yard can hit solid rock at eight inches ten feet away. We plan for that rather than get surprised by it, and where bedrock sits shallow we adjust with surface-mount brackets or rock anchors instead of forcing a standard concrete footing into stone that will not cooperate. The flip side is clay, which holds water and swells through wet winters. A post that is not set deep enough will heave within a few seasons regardless of which problem, rock or clay, shows up on your particular lot. We typically set posts 30 to 36 inches deep here, and we do not shortcut it to save time.
Utility easements are the other thing worth checking before you commit to a fence line, especially along the newer sections south of town and around the Burkitt corridor near the Davidson County line. If a fence goes up inside an easement, the utility company can remove it without paying you back if they ever need access. Your plat map or a call to your surveyor settles it fast. If there is an easement, build inside of it and move on.
Fitting In With the Neighborhood
Nolensville still has a working antique district along Nolensville Road, and a lot of residents lean toward fence styles that respect that, stained cedar over painted white vinyl, something with a little weight to it rather than the cheapest option available. Plenty of folks ask for that look even though nothing requires it. South of town toward Arrington, the subdivisions give way to acreage, and privacy fencing gives way to split rail and farm fencing instead, since a five-acre lot does not need six-foot privacy boards running the whole perimeter.
A typical privacy fence job takes two to three days from post-setting to final walk-through on a flat, easement-free lot. Add a day if recent rain has left the ground wet, since a muddy hole does not hold a post the way clean soil does. Corner lots or HOA-review jobs can take a little longer up front while the paperwork clears, but the install itself does not change much once we are on site. For material-by-material pricing, our fence cost guide has the current ranges. Call Middle TN Fence & Gate at (629) 529-4765 to get a free estimate scheduled. We install privacy fences throughout Nolensville and the rest of Williamson County.