W J Mc Donough Fence Co

A homeowner called one morning in November 2025 about a wrought iron fence; Nick came out that afternoon with a tape measure and options, and the estimate landed before the end of the day. That is the pace people describe at W J McDonough Fence Co, the Medford family company that says it has been fencing Greater Boston for more than forty years. The installs move just as fast. A Malden homeowner had roughly 260 feet of fence put in and the crew finished in about twelve hours. Another had the old fence pulled and a new one standing the same day. Cedar is what customers keep choosing: one writing in June 2026 pointed out the new posts came in at five inches where the old ones had been four, and said the compliments from neighbors have not stopped. The ground is the other thing that comes up. A customer in May 2026 had posts set into walls and into grade, with the fence changing heights and styles mid-run through construction delays, and said the crew worked with them through all of it. In a 2025 review, a homeowner sharing a boundary fence with a neighbor was walked through how to build a dog-proof bottom edge on sloping terrain. Crews also come back after winter storms to repair fences they put up themselves — sometimes long ago. One customer in 2025 was replacing a McDonough fence installed 20 to 25 years earlier. Two things are worth pinning down before the crew arrives. The first is billing: a customer in July 2026 who had paid the 50% deposit objected to being invoiced for the balance the day the work finished, again the next day, and marked overdue by Saturday, on a job that had run three weeks. The second is the finish. A May 2026 reviewer found edges left raw where the gate latch passes through, a 2025 customer needed the crew back to take splinters off new wood, and in a 2023 review a replaced chain link gate was measured or hung wrong and sat visibly crooked. Its Google rating is 4.8 across 123 ratings, and the company says it has taken the Angie's List Super Service Award 18 years running. For a wood or cedar fence on awkward ground — a slope, a shared boundary, a yard full of plantings you want kept — this is a direct call. Agree in writing when the balance falls due relative to completion, and walk the line with the crew before they pack up to check gates, latches and cut edges.