W J Mc Donough Fence Co

W J McDonough Fence is a Medford, Massachusetts fence company run across generations of the same family — Cole, Nick, and crews led by names like Christian and Jack keep coming up by name across dozens of reviews, the kind of small operation where the same people quote the job and show up to build it. People hire them for cedar and wood-picket fences, vinyl, wrought iron, chain-link repairs and gate work, and for storm-damage fixes to fences they installed years earlier. The through-line across nearly a hundred reviews is care around the details other fence crews skip: protecting plants and shrubs during demolition and install, squaring every section, and cleaning up thoroughly — one 2025 review described the crew washing an entire driveway before leaving. Several customers describe multi-decade relationships: one 2025 review recounts replacing a fence McDonough had installed 20-25 years earlier, and another from October 2025 mentions a lattice-fence repair on a fence installed 'many years ago.' A newer customer described a complicated layout — posts set into walls and grade, shifting heights and styles — handled without drama. The written record is deep and mostly clean, but not spotless. A July 2026 review, three stars, complained not about the fence itself ('great work') but about being emailed overdue-payment notices within days of the job finishing, after a 3-week wait for the work to start. A 2023 review describes a chain-link gate repair that came out crooked and stayed that way after the customer asked for an adjustment. A couple of newer reviews mention small finishing misses — an unfinished latch hole, some splinters that needed a follow-up visit to sand down. Google shows 4.8 stars from 123 ratings, and the last six months alone brought 28 reviews with only one negative among them, so the pattern holds up as current. For a straightforward fence install, this is about as well-documented a track record as it gets in the trade; if the job involves a payment plan or a finicky gate detail, it's worth confirming expectations on both up front.