East Coast Fence, Inc.

Fifty-six years in the same Kingston fence yard, a 4.8-star Google average across 24 ratings, and a customer in Plymouth who has kept coming back for fifteen years — East Coast Fence, Inc. sells and installs vinyl, cedar, ornamental aluminum and chain-link fencing for homes and businesses across eastern Massachusetts and the Cape and Islands, and also rents temporary construction fence and sells materials cash-and-carry. The company says it has been fencing Massachusetts homes and businesses since 1970 and has served three generations of customers; the BBB likewise lists a 1970 business start and a 14-employee corporation. The praise in reviews is unusually specific about people and responsiveness. A 2025 reviewer who hired them for a walkway railing said the crew showed up early, that an installer named Chris worked without stopping, and that the office actually answers the phone; another 2025 customer said a salesman came out immediately after their fence came down, quoted, and got them scheduled. A 2024 reviewer described an 8-foot backyard vinyl fence with a lattice topper the salesman helped customize, and a 2022 reviewer in Plymouth said storm-damaged fencing they called in on 2/7/22 was repaired the very next day. The most useful review is the least glowing: a 2023 four-star customer wrote that they were initially dissatisfied with the shape of a small section, that the company came back out promptly, and that the owner phoned personally to make sure communication was clear. That is a picture of how the company handles a complaint, not just how it sells. Two things are worth pinning down. The record here is thin in volume — six reviews on file spanning 2022 to 2025 — so it rests on Google's aggregate more than on depth of written accounts. And the paperwork is inconsistent across sources: the BBB names Paul A Vantangoli as president while BuildZoom lists the owner as Roger Howes, and the site credits Peter Randall as VP of Sales and an AFA Certified Fence Professional. BuildZoom also states it verified in October 2020 that no Massachusetts contractor licence is required for this work, which is a directory's claim rather than a registry check. They read as a sensible call for a straightforward residential fence anywhere from Kingston and Plymouth up through Scituate and Hingham, or for a commercial job — their Procore profile shows 15 projects, 8 of them active. Before booking, confirm who will own the job, get the fence style and gate hardware written into the quote, and ask how repairs and warranty callbacks are handled, since that is where their reviewers say they do best.