Chipman Family Fence

One name shows up in nearly every review of Chipman Family Fence: Wendell. Customers describe the owner turning up to measure, quoting the job himself, and then being on site with the crew — across seven years of written accounts, from a $395 chain-link repair to a $10,500 cedar install. The Marshfield company is BBB accredited with an A+ grade and has been accredited since March 2018. It installs and repairs wood, vinyl and PVC, chain link, aluminium, steel and wrought iron fencing, plus automatic gates, and sells fabricated fence sections for homeowners who want to install themselves. What makes the record readable is that people put numbers to it. In a 2016 review a homeowner priced a wood fence at $1,400 and said the crew came exactly when promised; another the same year described a $9,800 install finished in about four days. A 2017 customer wrote that a chain-link and cedar repair was done within 24 hours of the call for $395. In a 2023 review a homeowner described a six-foot Canadian cedar privacy fence with two gates, quoted onsite and installed six months later, exactly as specified. The one story that says most about how they handle trouble is from January 2022: a customer whose coastal fence had been storm-damaged wrote that a major windstorm hit about a month after installation and disturbed work that had not fully set, and that the crew came back within days, repaired it and shored it up. Two things to weigh. The written record runs 2016 to 2023 and then stops — nothing has been posted in roughly three years, so the current picture is unverified even though the history is deep. And the 5.0 rating shown as 37 reviews appears identically on both Angi and HomeAdvisor; those are mirrors of one review set, not two independent scores. Lead times were sometimes long: one 2023 customer waited six months from bid to install, and a 2017 reviewer noted a slow spring. Set against fabrication, the set holds up: bodies vary from one line to several paragraphs, prices and fence types differ job to job, the owner and crew recur by name across years, and a 4.5 and a 4.7 survive among the fives. A sound call for residential fence work on the South Shore, particularly cedar and vinyl privacy fencing and gates. Ask about the current lead time and get the schedule in writing, since the timing is what varied most in what customers wrote.