It's a fencing company's job to build a quality fence to the customer's specifications. I can't comment too much on the first part since we had the fence for just a couple years, but so far, so good on that part except for a few missing screws.
However, Harrison Fence failed miserably to build it to our specifications - namely, where to put it. We provided a survey and had property markers, and they built a portion of our fence 3 feet into our neighbor's yard on one side and half a foot on the other side. Our fence and both our neighbors' fences were all built by Harrison Fence, and all of them were built in the incorrect location. Harrison never warned us or asked us about it, they just built right in someone else's property. In my neighborhood, the HoA requires that fences go to the property line, which is what the neighbors certainly asked Harrison Fence to do, and they failed to deliver.
Now we are trying to sell our house and have to deal with encroachment issues, filing fees, the whole works. I have gone back and forth over email with Shauna Harrison (who seems to be active here replying to 1 star reviews like mine), and she refuses to pay any of the fees we are incurring ($602 for two separate encroachments). I at first respectfully requested she pay the full sum of fees, and she refused a couple times. I then offered to pay one encroachment fee if Harrison Fence would extend a gesture of goodwill to pay for the other $301 encroachment. She refused.
The contract you sign with Harrison Fence has a clause on the back that says "The Customer agrees to release Harrison Fence from any liability resulting from the erection of the fence on incorrect lines" which I initially believed, due to the context of that part of the contract and an email we received during the install, meant that only applied if you didn't provide a survey and just told Harrison where to build the fence yourself. Apparently though, Harrison Fence does not, under any circumstance, guarantee they will build your fence in the correct location. It is literally jaw dropping to me that they won't guarantee that half of their whole job is done correctly. I can't imagine telling my employer that I can't guarantee that a major part of my job will be done correctly.
I honestly didn't expect much when I contacted Harrison Fence to correct this. Our Realtor informed us that this is pretty common and fencing companies usually don't have the integrity to make things right, so it was really just a disappointment to see that Harrison Fence was no different. If you are reading this and still considering Harrison Fence for some reason, I would find the line in the contract I mentioned above, cross it out, and initial it. If they refuse to do the work because you altered the contract, I would inform them they should probably learn to do their work correctly.
I offered Shauna multiple opportunities to make this right and she refused all of them, only ever offering to send someone out to remove the encroachments at cost to myself, then saying "we stand behind our work." I can assure you, Harrison Fence does not stand behind their work. Look elsewhere.
Edit: Nothing above this line is edited, that's all my original review. I am adding this part to address Shauna's response below. She claims our fence attached to our neighbors', which is not true (nor do I have the legal ability to ask you to build on someone else's property. If, based on the survey and land markers provided you would need to build on property that I did not own, you should've, as per the contract I signed, told me. And you didn't.). The estimator at Harrison Fence told us when we got our estimate that Harrison Fence does not physically attach neighboring fences. Secondly, you never mentioned sending anyone out for free to fix any part of our fence, you merely stated that you'd be happy to have someone meet me at the property (which I *did* mention in my review), but as you said, that wasn't a solution.
Again, you put a WHOLE POST in one neighbor's property, not just overhang.
I think it's very telling that you didn't mention in your rebuttal how your company built that neighbor's fence 3 feet from the property line - how did you plan to resolve that? Is that one of the industry standards that you claim your company follows? How did you plan to fix the other neighbor's fence (which you also constructed) that was built nearly a foot from the property line? Tearing down your poor work is not a solution. Your company built THREE fences incorrectly and this review reflects that. The only fix for that was for you to pay for the the mistake, file the encroachments with the county, and be done - but you didn't have the integrity to do it. You should've built them all correctly in the first place, and if you want a good Yelp review, maybe earn it by building your fences correctly. read more