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Dan Clifford
April 8, 2021 at 9:54 pmMy wife and I decided to have our wood fence replaced which covers three sides of our quarter acre lot. The fence is shared by four neighbors. I had three people come out to quote the fence and I had a specific fence design which I shared in a pdf explicitly stating how I wanted it built. I received quotes and ended up going with the Fence Doctor 541 (Daniel).
It was not easy to get my neighbors to all agree to split the cost of the fence but I managed to get three of the four to agree. I made the mistake of paying upfront. Then he doesn’t show up the day we originally scheduled. From there on out, he would regularly show up for just a few hours or not show up at all. His excuses ranged from the timber yards being out of wood to my soil having too much clay in it to it being too hot outside and many others. He would stack boards all across my lawn and then not show up for days, killing my lawn. Several times my wife and I had to move dozens of boards off our lawn and to organize the mess he made.
He then delegated the task to his 16 and 18 year old sons who seemingly had no experience building a fence. Due to covid, I was working from home and it was a constant daily battle to get them to do their job. Most of the time it was his teenage kids on site who didn’t have any idea what they were doing and had nobody to direct them. When Daniel did show up on site, he was goofing off and video chatting with a female while carrying boards. My neighbors and I were so annoyed with Daniel that we began pulling posts ourselves on the days he didn’t show up. He was supposed to build two lattice sections but he built the fence too high in those areas to accommodate the lattice. He still owes me money for the lattice that he never used as well as never installing finishing trim on one side of my entire west fence.
Months and months later I had something that resembled a fence but all of my fence posts are seemingly random heights. The small gate area he put up were random heights and the posts were crooked and the gate hinges were installed incorrectly (the gate could simply be lifted off of the hinges and the gate made very loud noises every time it was opened). Months later he worked to straighten them but it still looks very amateur. He also built three fence sections completely crooked out front of my house which also took months to get fixed. His kids framed one section that was completely different than the quoted fence specs and they had to reframe it. He’d tell me he was all done and I’d send him pics of missing slats and gaps. He also couldn’t get his air compressor dialed in correctly and I’ve got nails popping through the other side. Now, about 9 months later, I still have fence posts of random heights and an amateur looking gate with fence panels of random heights without the finishing trim I was quoted. When I drive around town and see fences that look professional, it just reminds me of this experience.
I had planned to have him build an RV gate for me but I went with another fence contractor after seeing the quality and honesty of his work. Hiring Daniel strained my relationship with three of my neighbors and had me apologizing for him. I would strongly recommend to NOT use the Fence Doctor 541.