Armstrong Fence Co.

Nine straight five-star reviews and a 4.7 average across 35 Google ratings sit behind a fence yard that has worked the South Shore since the mid-1980s. Armstrong Fence Co. operates from 1 Church St in Pembroke and is hired for cedar, vinyl, aluminum and chain-link fence installation, plus gates, pool fencing and outdoor accents such as mailbox and lantern posts. The company says it has been family-owned and operated since 1984, founded by president David Armstrong, with a second-generation fencer now on staff. What people who hired them describe is the crew, by name, and the follow-through. In a 2024 Google review a homeowner said it was the fifth time they had used Armstrong, praising an installer who asked questions along the way, worked diligently over three days including one in sweltering heat, and did a meticulous cleanup. Another 2024 reviewer wrote that a section of a fence installed a few years earlier had started to lean and the company arranged to come out and realign it. A third 2024 review credited two named installers with a fence and trellis that "look tremendous", and a 2024 customer picking up materials described the yard staff loading a truck so the load could be worked off directly. The written record is consistent but neither deep nor fresh: the nine reviews on file run 2023 to 2025 across five sources, so the specifics above describe work from one to three years ago rather than current practice. The Better Business Bureau lists the business as accredited since 2011 with an A+ grade and a ten-employee corporation whose file was opened in 1991. Its Houzz profile adds CertainTeed Bufftech advanced-training certification and American Fence Association membership, and puts a typical job between $1,500 and $20,000 — directory-stated details worth confirming directly rather than treating as verified. One caution on history: the company's own site dates the business to 1984, while the BBB profile lists a business start of 1981 and 45 years in business. Both cannot be right, and neither is independently verified here. A 2023 r/SouthShore thread asking for honest South Shore fence contractors surfaced the Armstrong name with no detail attached — corroboration that the name circulates locally, not evidence about a particular job. They read as a sensible call for a straightforward residential fence in the Pembroke-Scituate-Hingham corridor; the site's stated service area is Pembroke, Scituate, Hingham, Cohasset, Norwell, Marshfield and Duxbury. Before booking, confirm current lead times, who will actually be on the crew, and get the scope and cleanup expectations in the written quote.