Local Fence Company

Local Fence Company is a one-owner fencing outfit in Methuen — Dan runs every job himself, with no subcontractors, installing wood (cedar), vinyl, aluminum, and chain-link fences plus pool-code and dog enclosures across the Merrimack Valley and into southern New Hampshire. The company says it's been in business since 2007. The thing that shows up again and again across 23 Google reviews stretching back to 2021 is that Dan personally answers the phone and shows up when he says he will. Reviewers describe him returning calls the next day, arriving for quotes on schedule, and following through from estimate to completion — one customer, working through a Toll Brothers community's HOA approval process in a 2021 review, said Dan handled the extensive paperwork and had the fence in within days of sign-off. Several homeowners came back more than once: one hired Dan for three separate fence projects over two years, another for a second install at a new house, and a third for a repair years after an original vinyl-and-chain-link job. In a 2024 review, one couple moving into a house built in 1702 credited Dan with matching a period-appropriate design after "hunting down" the exact look they wanted for a wide-open side yard. A recurring theme in reviews from 2023 and 2024 is that Local Fence took on small jobs other companies wouldn't touch — homeowners describe being turned away or ignored by larger outfits over a small repair or a tight budget, then getting a callback from Dan and a job scheduled soon after. In a 2026 review, one customer had a dented pole and a section of chain link repaired after storm damage and added a gate to the job. Pricing comes up unprompted as reasonable in several reviews, and in a 2022 review one customer said Dan lowered the price when a repair turned out simpler than originally quoted. Every review on file is five stars, and the company's Google page reflects the same pattern across 86 ratings — there's no complaint or pattern of trouble to flag here. Local Fence is a solid call for a straightforward wood, vinyl, aluminum, or chain-link fence job, install or repair, especially for smaller jobs bigger fence companies have turned down. Multiple reviewers say Dan will work with you directly on scope and design, so bring your specifics to him rather than a general outfit.