Straight Line Fencing

Straight Line Fencing is a Fall River outfit built around owner Rob — also named in several reviews as Robert Machado — and the through-line across 49 written reviews since 2020 is remarkable consistency: a perfect 5.0 on Google from 78 ratings, and a perfect 5.0 on both HomeAdvisor and Angi from 9 reviews apiece. What the crew gets called for spans the whole trade: chain link, vinyl, wood and cedar fencing, gates, and the occasional custom railing. A 2023 review described a 260-foot vinyl privacy fence with a height taper and gate finished in about four days, and a 2020 HomeAdvisor review said a fence Rob installed more than five years earlier "looks as good today as the day it was finished." They'll also take on jobs other companies pass on — a December 2023 review said Straight Line was the only company willing to even look at a difficult security gate at the Woods Hole Coast Guard base, let alone repair it. And in a 2020 Angi review, a homeowner described hiring a different contractor to fence a newly purchased home; when that fence collapsed within three months, Straight Line was called and had a crew on site redoing the entire fence line within three days. Responsiveness is the other thing reviewers keep coming back to: Rob answering the first call, turning estimates around within a couple of days, and returning messages within hours rather than days. Price gets called fair or competitive across multiple independent reviews — one from 2021 noted Rob chose the more labor-intensive install method on a vinyl fence rather than leave an off-center seam that would have looked unprofessional. The one thing worth knowing before calling: a 2022 review said the company's install timeline didn't line up with that homeowner's tighter schedule, which the reviewer chalked up to Straight Line being busy rather than any quality issue — and recommended them anyway. Worth asking about current lead times if your own timeline is tight. For chain link, vinyl, or wood fencing — repairs included, and evidently even the hard-to-reach gates other companies won't touch — Straight Line's record across six years and three platforms is about as consistent as fencing reviews get; the main thing to confirm upfront is how soon they can actually get to your job.