Fence Haven, a residential and commercial fencing contractor based in Knoxville, Tennessee, has recently completed a cedar privacy fence installation in the Greater Knoxville Area that pairs pre-stained cedar board-on-board construction with a steel post system hidden inside the fence line. The design responds to a pattern Fence Haven has seen repeatedly on replacement jobs: it is almost always the post, not the boards, that fails first on an older wood fence.
Founded in June 2025 by Logan Tharp, Fence Haven is a licensed and insured fencing contractor built on a team with decades of combined trade experience. Tharp spent six years with an established local fencing company before starting his own. His father, Jayme Tharp, has spent decades in fence design, sales and customer service. Fence Haven has completed hundreds of residential and commercial fence installations throughout the region, maintains a 5.0-star rating on Google, and backs every installation, including this one, with a two-year workmanship guarantee. Fence Haven has also noticed more homeowners asking about hidden support systems like this one when replacing an aging wood fence.
For this residential project, the homeowner wanted a privacy fence that looked finished immediately and would not carry the maintenance concerns of a traditional wood-post installation. The crew installed a board-on-board cedar privacy fence, a design that overlaps vertical boards to close every gap left by natural wood shrinkage, finished with a decorative cap and trim along the top and bottom rails. The entrance also includes a matching walk gate with black hardware. Instead of setting the fence on standard wood posts, the crew used PostMaster posts, steel supports installed fully inside the wood structure so no metal shows, built to resist the leaning and rot that eventually pull a wood-post fence out of line.
The installation followed the same process Fence Haven uses on every project. The crew marked and cleared utility lines before digging on the property, then set each post in high-PSI concrete, a denser mix that cures harder than standard concrete and keeps a post from shifting under wind load. Because the hidden support system carries the structural weight of the fence, the cedar boards only have to look good instead of holding the line themselves.
The cedar arrived pre-stained rather than left to weather naturally, so the fence looked complete the day the crew finished, with no months-long wait for raw wood to age and no follow-up staining later. The crew held the same board spacing and cap alignment across the full run of fence, so the line reads straight from one end to the other, a detail homeowners tend to notice years later, not the first week.
"Most homeowners think they have to pick one: the look of wood or the strength of steel," said Logan Tharp, owner of Fence Haven. "That's the wrong question. When someone tries to sell an all-wood post system as the premium option, that's usually the fence you'll be replacing posts on in five years."
For more information about Fence Haven's fencing services, visit www.fencehaven.com or call (865) 300-0574. Homeowners planning a similar project in the Knoxville area can also read customer reviews of Fence Haven's completed installations across the region, including feedback on craftsmanship and cleanup after the job is done.
About Fence Haven
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Fence Haven is a family-owned, licensed and insured fencing contractor based at 1500 Cline St NW, Knoxville, TN 37921. Founded in June 2025 by Logan Tharp, the company installs vinyl, ornamental aluminum, wood and ranch rail fencing, along with gates, fence repair and commercial enclosures, for residential and commercial customers throughout Knoxville, Farragut, Maryville and the surrounding areas. Fence Haven holds a 5.0-star rating on Google and backs every installation with a two-year workmanship guarantee. More information is available at www.fencehaven.com.
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For more information about Fence Haven, contact the company here:
Fence Haven
Logan Tharp
(865) 300-0574
office@fencehaven.com
1500 Cline St NW, Knoxville, TN 37921
