Five Forks in plain terms
Five Forks is not a city. It is a census-designated area of eastern Greenville County named for the roads that meet there, Woodruff Road, Batesville Road, Scuffletown Road and Bennetts Bridge Road among them. Anyone who drives Woodruff Road at rush hour knows the place. Most of what is here went up in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: large subdivisions, planned communities with pools and clubhouses, and the shopping centers that came with them.
That makes Five Forks one of the more predictable places to paint. Many of the houses are two stories, and most neighborhoods have an HOA with rules about exterior colors.
The neighborhoods
Names you will hear around here include Kilgore Farms, with its pools, clubhouse and wooded common land along Peters Creek; Kilgore Plantation; Five Forks Plantation, with many houses from the mid 2010s; Whitehall Plantation; Bellingham; Copper Creek; Chestnut Pond; and Southampton, a gated community. There are townhome communities too, like the Townes at Five Forks.
In townhome communities the HOA often handles exterior painting, so the work there is mostly inside. In single-family neighborhoods it is both.
Living with an HOA
If your HOA wants to approve exterior colors before work starts, we can make that easy. We help you pick at the estimate, then hand you the exact color names and sheens for each part of the house. That way the request you send matches what goes on the wall, and nobody gets a letter later. A free color consult comes with every estimate, which helps when the approved list has forty grays on it.
Two-story rooms and builder paint
The common interior jobs here come straight from how these houses were built:
- Builder flat paint. It looks fine on move-in day and marks the first time a backpack hits it. Repainting halls, stairways and kids’ rooms in a scrubbable finish is the most common fix.
- Two-story foyers and great rooms. Vaulted and two-story rooms take more ladder work than a regular room. Most owners would rather not be on a ladder that tall, and we have the equipment for it.
- One color everywhere. Many builders use one neutral through the whole house. An accent wall is an easy way to break it up. See murals and accent walls.
- Nail pops and corner cracks. These show up as a newer house settles, and we fix them with drywall repair before any paint goes on.
Fiber cement and the first exterior repaint
Fiber cement siding (Hardie board) holds paint well, but the original finish still fades and chalks with sun, especially on the sides of a house that face south and west. Caulked joints and trim are usually where trouble starts. When it is time, we pressure wash, re-caulk where needed, and put on two coats. The price depends on how much siding there is, how tall the walls are and the paint level you pick. More on our fiber cement siding page, and on how we price.
Neighboring areas we cover
Five Forks runs right into Simpsonville and Mauldin, with Greer to the north and Greenville to the west. We work in all of them.