Buyer’s guide
Best Fence Companies on the Main Line, PA
The Main Line is a rail corridor across three counties rather than one municipality, and its fence search results scatter accordingly. Here is what Google publishes for it, ranked by volume, with what to check.
Google Business Profile data captured . Ratings change — check the current figure before you call.
The Main Line is a railroad, not a municipality, and that is the most useful thing to know before you start calling fence companies about a property on it. The corridor runs out through Merion, Narberth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Villanova, Radnor, Wayne, Devon and Berwyn toward Paoli and Malvern, and in doing so it crosses Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties and something like a dozen separate townships and boroughs. Every one of them writes its own zoning ordinance and adopts and amends the state building code on its own schedule. There is no Main Line fence rule. There is a Lower Merion rule, a Radnor rule, a Haverford rule and a Tredyffrin rule, and the one that governs your fence is whichever municipality your parcel actually sits in — which is not always the one your mailing address says.
What the properties do have in common is harder to legislate and matters just as much to the work. These are older, larger lots with mature planting, hedgerow that predates the house next door, and dry-laid stone walls that were the original boundary and are now somebody's idea of a property line. There are enough corner lots that the two-front-yard rule catches somebody every season, and enough HOA architectural committees and borough historic districts that the approval path routinely takes longer than the installation. The listings below are what Google publishes for this corridor. Exactly one of the ten has an address on the corridor itself, in Ardmore; the other nine reach in from Montgomeryville, Honey Brook, West Chester, Willow Grove, Douglassville, Lansdale, Malvern, Glenside and Norristown.
How this list was built
Methodology
The source is Google Business Profile data, pulled through the Google Places API on 19 August 2026. Because the Main Line is not a municipality and cannot be searched as one, we ran four town-level searches across the corridor — fence company Bryn Mawr PA, fence contractor Wayne PA, fence company Villanova PA and fence installation Gladwyne PA — and kept the published name, average, review count, address, website and Google business category exactly as returned.
Ranking rule: listings publishing an average below 4.0 were excluded, and the rest were ordered by review volume with ties broken alphabetically. Two listings tied outright on both figures at 4.8 across 225, which is why All Type Fence Co precedes Superior Fence & Rail of Southeast Pennsylvania here; the order between them carries no judgement at all. Rating sets the floor and volume sets the order because volume is what tells you how much evidence sits behind the number.
Two listings fell below the 4.0 floor in this pull — Terra Nova Fence, Inc. at 3.6 across 7, and Bryn Mawr Fence Co., Inc. at 2.6 across 5. Both counts are small enough that two or three unhappy customers move the average a long way, which is precisely why we used rating as a floor rather than as the ranking. Neither number should be read as a verdict on the work.
One listing per company. Hoff - The Fence Contractors runs three separate listings across this territory — Media, Wayne and West Chester — each carrying its own average and count. Since no single listing represents the company and the counts are not additive, it is named here rather than ranked against single-listing competitors.
These figures are Google's, not ours, and they move. A listing reading 4.9 in August can read 4.7 by the time you call, and a company with 30 pieces of feedback today may have 60 next spring. Check the live listing before you weigh it.
What to look for
How to Choose a Fence Contractor
Two approvals, two clocks
On most of this corridor a fence needs a municipal permit and, separately, approval from an HOA architectural committee or a borough historic district. They run on independent timelines and can want different things — a design that satisfies the ordinance can still be rejected by the committee. Ask who prepares and files each submission, and ask for the realistic calendar, not the optimistic one.
The corner-lot question
Ordinances in this corridor commonly treat both street-facing sides of a corner lot as front yards, which drops the lower height cap onto the side you would call the back. It surprises people on the older Main Line streets constantly. The specific figure is set by your township or borough, not by the county or the state, so the right answer from a contractor is that they will confirm it with your municipality before anything is ordered.
Working around old planting and old stone
Mature hedgerow, specimen trees and dry-laid stone walls are the normal site conditions here, and all three complicate post placement. Ask what happens when a footing lands on a root or on buried stone: whether the line gets adjusted, whether a root gets cut, who decides, and whether that conversation happens with you on site or after the fact.
Branch, franchise or independent
This market contains regional branches of multi-state brands, long-established independents and one-crew shops, and the listing itself rarely tells you which is which. None of the three is disqualifying and each has real advantages. What matters is knowing which one you are hiring, who the install crew works for, and who owns the problem if something needs fixing.
PA registration, insurance and the contract
Ask for the Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor registration number and verify it with the state yourself. Ask for a certificate of insurance issued directly by the carrier showing general liability and workers' compensation. On properties with mature landscaping and stone hardscape, the liability coverage is not a formality — a dropped post-hole auger in the wrong place is an expensive afternoon.
A written spec, not a per-foot number
An estimate that names only a length and a price cannot be compared to anything. The one you want names material and grade, post size and spacing, rail count, footing depth relative to the local frost line, how gate posts differ from line posts, gate widths and hardware, and whether demolition and haul-away are included. Two estimates that do not describe the same things are not two prices for the same fence.
Fence Companies Serving the Main Line, PA
| # | Company | Google rating | Reviews | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fence Guys | 4.9 | 738 | 111 Domorah Dr, Montgomeryville, PA 18936 |
| 2 | Smucker Fencing | 4.9 | 568 | 5277 Horseshoe Pike, Honey Brook, PA 19344 |
| 3 | The Fence Authority | 4.8 | 459 | 100 Colonial Way, West Chester, PA 19382 |
| 4 | Greenhill Fencing Inc. | 4.9 | 249 | 307 Greenhill Rd, Willow Grove, PA 19090 |
| 5 | All Type Fence Co | 4.8 | 225 | 1600 W Schuylkill Rd, Douglassville, PA 19518 |
| 6 | Superior Fence & Rail of Southeast Pennsylvania | 4.8 | 225 | 300 Walnut St, Lansdale, PA 19446 |
| 7 | Rusticraft Fence Company | 4.7 | 191 | 439 E King Rd, Malvern, PA 19355 |
| 8 | Everlasting Fence Company | 4.6 | 156 | 17 Limekiln Pike, Glenside, PA 19038 |
| 9 | Super Fence Company, LLC | 4.9 | 144 | 2717 Haverford Rd, Ardmore, PA 19003 |
| 10 | Freedom Fence LLC | 4.4 | 137 | 2506 W Main St, Norristown, PA 19403 |
1. The Fence Guys
4.9 on Google · 738 reviews · 111 Domorah Dr, Montgomeryville, PA 18936
Surfaced on all four Main Line searches we ran — Bryn Mawr, Wayne, Villanova and Gladwyne — and carries 738 pieces of feedback at 4.9, a margin of 170 over the next listing.
On the published data this is the strongest entry in the roundup, and saying otherwise on a page we publish as a competitor would not be worth much. The address is in Montgomeryville, on the far side of Montgomery County from the corridor, so the questions to ask are about scheduling, crew consistency and what a return trip for a gate adjustment looks like from there.
2. Smucker Fencing
4.9 on Google · 568 reviews · 5277 Horseshoe Pike, Honey Brook, PA 19344
The second-deepest public record in the set — 568 pieces of feedback at 4.9 — from an address at the far western edge of Chester County.
Honey Brook is a long way west of Bryn Mawr, and the pull shows it: Smucker surfaced on the Wayne query alone, not on Bryn Mawr, Villanova or Gladwyne. That is a reach that thins as you move east along the corridor. The record behind the listing is one of the strongest in the region on volume alone; the practical question is where their crews are actually working on any given week.
3. The Fence Authority
4.8 on Google · 459 reviews · 100 Colonial Way, West Chester, PA 19382
Google files this listing under building materials store rather than general contractor, and it carries 459 pieces of feedback at 4.8.
That category changes how the count should be read. Feedback on a supplier reflects product selection, pricing and delivery as much as installation, and those are different experiences with different things going wrong. It does not make the figure less real. It makes the question on the call a specific one: who installs, and does that crew work for the company or for someone the company refers you to?
4. Greenhill Fencing Inc.
4.9 on Google · 249 reviews · 307 Greenhill Rd, Willow Grove, PA 19090
The only listing in this top ten publishing both Saturday and Sunday hours, alongside 249 pieces of feedback at 4.9.
Weekend availability is a genuine differentiator on this corridor, where site visits compete with commuting schedules. Greenhill is based in Willow Grove, on the eastern side of Montgomery County, and in this pull it surfaced on the Gladwyne query alone — the closest of the four Main Line searches to it, and a sign that its reach into the corridor concentrates at the Lower Merion end.
5. All Type Fence Co
4.8 on Google · 225 reviews · 1600 W Schuylkill Rd, Douglassville, PA 19518
Publishes 4.8 across 225 — figures identical to the listing below it, which is a genuine tie rather than a ranking.
Douglassville is in Berks County, further from the corridor than anything else in this table, and All Type surfaced on the Villanova query alone. A listing that reaches this far east with this depth of record is worth a call, but it belongs firmly in the category of contractors you should ask directly about travel, scheduling windows and how a small callback gets handled.
6. Superior Fence & Rail of Southeast Pennsylvania
4.8 on Google · 225 reviews · 300 Walnut St, Lansdale, PA 19446
Surfaced on all four Main Line searches, publishes Saturday hours, and carries 4.8 across 225.
Both the business name and the regional path on its website identify this as the southeast Pennsylvania operation of a larger multi-location brand rather than a standalone local company. That structure usually brings consistent process, standardised material and a real office to call; it can also mean the crew on site is further removed from the person who owns the brand. Worth knowing which you are buying before you compare it to an independent.
7. Rusticraft Fence Company
4.7 on Google · 191 reviews · 439 E King Rd, Malvern, PA 19355
Surfaced on all four Main Line searches from a Malvern address at the western end of the corridor, with 191 pieces of feedback at 4.7.
Malvern sits on the same rail line the corridor is named after, which makes this one of the geographically native entries in the table. The 4.7 is the third-lowest average here and that is not a mark against it: at 191 pieces of feedback, jobs that went wrong show up in the number instead of disappearing into a small sample. Depth of record and a slightly lower average is usually the more informative combination.
8. Everlasting Fence Company
4.6 on Google · 156 reviews · 17 Limekiln Pike, Glenside, PA 19038
156 pieces of feedback at 4.6, from a Glenside address on the eastern edge of Montgomery County.
It surfaced on the Gladwyne query alone, which again points to reach concentrated at the Lower Merion end rather than across the whole corridor. This is also the clearest place on the page to notice that volume ordering and average ordering disagree: the listing directly below this one publishes a higher average on a smaller count, and a buyer who weights the average more heavily than we do should swap them.
9. Super Fence Company, LLC
4.9 on Google · 144 reviews · 2717 Haverford Rd, Ardmore, PA 19003
The only listing in this top ten with an address on the Main Line itself, and it surfaced on all four Main Line searches with 4.9 across 144.
Ardmore is the Main Line in the strictest sense of the term, and this is the one entry in the table for which the corridor is home ground rather than a service area. It also publishes Saturday hours. Between the highest average in the lower half of the table, a genuinely local address and four-for-four query coverage, this is the entry a proximity-first buyer should call first.
10. Freedom Fence LLC
4.4 on Google · 137 reviews · 2506 W Main St, Norristown, PA 19403
The lowest average in this top ten at 4.4, held across 137 pieces of feedback, with coverage on all four Main Line searches.
A 4.4 across 137 still tells you more than a 5.0 across five, and the four-query coverage says the listing is genuinely present across the corridor rather than in one corner of it. It is also the one entry here where reading the low-scoring feedback individually is worth your time — not to disqualify the company, but to see whether the complaints cluster around something you care about, such as schedule slippage, or something you do not.
Disclosure
Where JHL Fence Company Fits
This guide is published by JHL Fence Company. We are a fence contractor in this market, so treat it the way you would treat any guide written by a company with an interest in the answer: the ratings above are third-party Google data you can verify yourself, and the criteria are the ones we would tell a friend to use.
JHL Fence Company does not appear in the table above, and the reason is simple: we hold no Google Business Profile for the fence brand, so there is no third-party figure to put in those columns. A page like this one is easy to write dishonestly — put yourself at the top, attach a number nobody checks, call it a guide. We would rather publish the comparison, leave ourselves out of the ranked list, and be judged on the things a homeowner can actually verify.
The verifiable facts are these. We are family owned and we are not a national franchise or a regional branch of one, so the person who quotes the job and the company that stands behind it are the same business. We carry Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor registration and we are insured, and the registration number and a carrier-issued certificate are available on request before you sign anything. We work from two offices — 701 S Franklin St, Suite 107, West Chester, PA 19382, (610) 890-4988, and 12 Smedley Ln, Suite 107, Newtown Square, PA 19073, (610) 535-7481 — and Main Line work runs out of Newtown Square.
Against the criteria on this page: we prepare and file the township or borough permit application, and the HOA architectural submission where a community requires one, rather than handing you a form and a phone number. Estimates are free and written, with material grade, post size and spacing, footing depth relative to frost line, gate widths and hardware, and demolition and haul-away named as line items, so ours can be laid next to any other estimate on this page and compared line for line. Our workmanship is guaranteed. That does not put us above the companies listed here, several of which have built a public track record we have not. It puts us on the same checklist, with the answers in writing.
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Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Which fence companies are actually based on the Main Line?
Very few, which is why so much of this market is served from outside it. In this pull the only listing in the top ten with an address on the corridor itself was Super Fence Company, LLC in Ardmore, at 4.9 across 144. Hoff - The Fence Contractors holds a Wayne listing at 5.0 across 38, and Bryn Mawr Fence Co., Inc. holds a Bryn Mawr listing at 2.6 across 5 with no website published. Everything else in the ranked table reaches into the corridor from Montgomery, Chester or Berks County.
Do fence rules differ from one Main Line town to the next?
Yes, and that is the single most expensive assumption a homeowner makes here. The corridor crosses Lower Merion, Narberth, Haverford, Radnor, Tredyffrin, Easttown, Willistown and more, across three counties. Each writes its own zoning ordinance governing fence height by yard type, setback, corner-lot treatment and permitted materials, and each adopts and amends the state Uniform Construction Code on its own schedule. A height that is permitted by right one street over may require a variance on yours. The governing figures come from your municipality, and they should be confirmed before material is ordered rather than after.
Why do pet-containment companies appear when I search for a fence company here?
Because Google categorises them the same way. Invisible Fence Brand shows up on three of the four Main Line searches we ran, listing a Paoli address at 4.8 across 76, categorised as a general contractor, with a website that is a dealer page for the national brand. It is a buried-wire containment system for pets, not a physical barrier. It will not satisfy a pool barrier requirement, it will not screen a sightline, it will not meet an HOA fence specification, and it does not keep anything out. It is a legitimate product answering a different question than the one most fence searches are asking.
How long does HOA or historic district approval take on the Main Line?
Longer than most people plan for, and it varies by committee rather than by rule. Architectural committees often meet monthly, which means a submission that misses a meeting waits for the next one, and a request for a revised drawing can cost another full cycle. Borough historic district review adds a separate track with its own calendar and its own views on material and profile. The practical move is to start both submissions at the same time as the municipal permit, and to treat the approval calendar rather than the crew schedule as the thing that sets your install date.
Should I choose the company with the highest rating or the most reviews?
Neither on its own. Read the average as a quality signal and the count as a confidence signal, and be more suspicious of a perfect average on a thin count than of a slightly lower average on a deep one. Then stop using the numbers entirely and compare the written estimates, because that is where the differences that determine whether a fence is still standing straight in fifteen years actually live: footing depth, post size, rail count, hardware and who is responsible when something needs adjusting.
