Dig the holes deeper. That is the detail TruFence's customers keep coming back to — one homeowner watched the crew set posts below what a previous company had done, another had the depth explained to him as the reason his fence would not heave when the North Shore ground freezes and thaws each winter. For a fence, that is the whole argument.
The company works out of Wakefield and installs vinyl, wood, aluminum, chain-link, Trex composite and custom fencing and gates for homeowners and commercial properties, quoting every job from a free on-site visit. It says it has twenty years behind it, and lists Wakefield, North Reading, Reading, Peabody, Lynnfield, Middleton, Andover, Topsfield, Tyngsboro and Chelmsford as the towns it covers.
Fourteen customers have written about them, all of it this year, and the owner — Jim, Jimmy or James depending on who is writing — is named in most of it. Repeat work shows up more than once: one household had him back for a second fence, a 6-foot custom white vinyl privacy run with black metal spindles; another had a 2022 chain-link fence reinforced with bottom rails after a new escape-artist dog arrived, and said his team came out to quote immediately and fitted them in. A customer in February 2026 described TruFence coming out to fix a wobbly fence a different company had installed at no charge, then rebuilding a whole section with deeper post holes. Speed comes up repeatedly — a chain-link fence done in a single day, a job finished in record heat, an installation completed faster than expected.
What is worth knowing is the shape of that record: every one of those fourteen reviews was posted between February and July 2026, all on one platform, against a company that says it has been doing this for twenty years. The reviews themselves read as genuine — different lengths, different projects, named crews, and repeat customers describing jobs years apart — but there is no older written history to weigh them against, and no independent source corroborating them.
They are a straightforward call for residential fence installation and repair on the North Shore, especially where post depth and frost heave matter or where an existing fence needs fixing. Fencing-only work does not require home improvement contractor registration in Massachusetts, so ask instead for proof of insurance, the post depth and footing spec in writing, and what the warranty covers.