Carlisle Fence & Sons LLC

First fence and gate job: Completed under the Father and Son. Excellent work and no issue with the quality years down the road. Second fence and gate job for a different section: Completed by the Son only due to Father having passed away. This one has had constant problems related to a decreased quality of work with the Son. The gate has been re-hung twice and still will not open or close fully (they stopped trying to fix it). The fence has always had boards that were not attached correctly because they didn’t drive the screws at the right place. But it also has had continuous boards popping off because the screws aren’t holding. And many of the boards have completely cracked in half. None of these problems have been present on the original fence work with the Father’s quality work. THE LAST STRAW: One of the posts they used snapped in half causing the fence to sag in one section. I had the Son out to have it repaired. He quoted me a price and said he could get to it in about 2 weeks. The time came and went and went and went. I reached out to him repeatedly to find out a date with no response. Finally several months later I catch him on the phone and HE TELLS ME THAT HE DIDN’T LIKE THE QUOTE HE GAVE ME AND SO DIDN’T WANT TO DO THE REPAIR AND THAT I SHOULD FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THE JOB. I let him know that I expected him to still do a repair on his own work and not pass it off on someone else to have to be accountable for. He agreed and said he would do it at his next available opening, but now it has been several months again with no word.

Carlisle Fence & Sons came highly recommended by all our neighbors. I called him shortly after Christmas and he came over to quote a fence for us within 24 hours. From there we put down a deposit and was on his schedule within 2 weeks. I was throughly impressed with his professionalism, his punctuality and his honesty. We live in a small town and it can be incredibly difficult to get any company to give us a call back, let alone come out and do a job and finish it! He was very meticulous and had great ideas for how to handle difficult parts of our backyard. Our yard is rather oddly shaped and he curved the fence line so everything looked great from the road. We are so so pleased with our finished fence! I will always recommend Carlisle Fence & Sons for anyone's fencing needs. I can't say enough how happy we are with the final result!

They are the only fence company I will ever hire. They’re excellent. I am more than happy with their work. They’re estimate is perfect. When they come to put a fence in; the materials they bring are exactly what they use. There is no material left over. Their estimates are spot on.

This turned out to be a nightmare and I was ripped off for $4,000. I met this company because he is related to one of my neighbors. I called around for estimates for the fence job. After speaking with him he called every couple of days telling me how much he wanted the job and what good work he does. I took his bid of $12,222 to fence the perimeter of ten acres and a cross fence through it with two gates. I first hired him to build a small pole barn with stalls. He began the barn and told about these wonderful boards he was going to use that had rounded edges.  They turned out to be deck boards not 2x6's (which had to be reinforced w/posts). Before he finished the barn he asked for the fence deposit. He finished the barn and was suppose to start on the fence. He cashed my $6,600 check and then was a no show on the fence job. He didn't call and when I called him I got his voice mail. I left a message and told I assumed he wasn't going to do the job and I wanted my money back. He returned my call and said that he didn't mean to scare me and had a family matter to attend to but would start the work. When he finally showed he would arrive at 11am and work for an hour. Shane Carlisle uses every excuse in the book as to why he can't show up to work. When I asked him how long it was going to take to install the fence he bragged and said only a few days. He continued to work sporatically. He put up approximately 1/3 of the post and wire. the only fencing left on my property was the boards to go around the top of the fence. He never bought the remaining fence material except for the gates which he did not bring to my property. The money he was given was enough to buy the fencing and a portion of the labor. Before he finished that 1/3 he began demanding another $5,600 and then claimed that the survey done on my property was wrong and that the fence was going to cost me more than $2,000 more that he had estimated. At this point I knew I was in trouble.  I at first gave him a $4,000 check even though I know I should'nt have. I checked my watch and discovered that he had missed cashing that check by just a few minutes. I called him and told him that the check would be no good and that I realized that I was losing alot of money but I could no longer use him because he was not getting the job done, was demanding more money than he should need at that time and he raised the cost. He said he was thinking about quitting anyway because he couldn't take the pressure. I think that means of having to work for the money. He said that he would finish the 1/3 by putting the board top on and installing the gates. He never showed and after calling the fencing company I learned he returned the gates I paid for and kept the money. I had to hire another fence company and learned what a bad job Carlisle Fencing had done on the small amount they did do. Not one post was properly set in the ground. You could effortlessly wiggle every one of them. They had just stuck them in the ground and kicked some dirt around them. The portion of the fence they put up was not stretched and this expensive no climb fence was stapled to the post and flopped like clothes on a clothes line in the breeze. I had to buy the gates that I had already paid for again and pay for the existing fence to be fixed. A closer inspection of the pole barn also revealed what poor workmanship this company turns out. I had to remove the stall gates and reinstall them to be level and properly aligned. I also discovered that one of the hurricane clips had only one nail holding it on. I also called the survey company which was outraged over him claiming the survey was wrong and left them to deal with that dishonesty. Upon researching this company on the State of Florida Sunbiz website I learned that the address listed is false and you will not find Shane Carlisle at it. He uses a post office box so he can't be found. I also discovered that they have in the past listed themselves as Carlisle Fence Enterprises,LL and do not send the reports required by the state. This company is a big hoax. They are looking for money not work. I lost several thousand dollars with this company but cut my losses before I got ripped for even more.    

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