Two decades on the front lines, now on his own terms
Tony Sandoval has spent more than 20 years building fences in Northern Virginia. Not selling them, not scheduling them from an office. Setting posts, hanging gates, and eventually running crews as a superintendent for the large fence companies whose trucks you already recognize.
He went independent recently, and the reason is simple enough to say in one sentence: homeowners deserve better care than a company that size can give them. Not worse fences. The materials are the same and the standards are the same. What gets lost at scale is the part where somebody actually pays attention to your yard, answers your question the same day, and remembers what you asked for last week.
That is the whole reason the name is what it is. Fence For Family & Friends started with the people Tony already knew, and building for someone you will run into at the grocery store in Gainesville turns out to be a very effective quality control system. Everyone who calls gets treated the same way.
We work across Loudoun County, Prince William County, Fairfax County, and every fence still gets built the way the first ones did: posts in concrete, gates that will still swing right in five years, and a phone that gets answered.
The owner, on every job
There is no crew you have not met. Tony measures your yard, builds the fence, and walks the finished line with you before he leaves.
Plain talk about money
Your price in writing before anything is booked, so you can compare ours against anyone else's. If a repair beats a replacement, we will tell you, and we will lose the bigger invoice.
We answer the phone
Within one business day, every request. In a market where the common complaint is a homeowner who could never get a straight answer, this is the whole promise.
The name is not a slogan. It is how we work.
“We named it Fence For Family & Friends because that is who we started building for. We have never worked out how to do it differently for anyone else.”
Tony Sandoval has spent more than 20 years building fences across Northern Virginia, a good stretch of it as a superintendent running crews for the large companies you are probably also getting quotes from. He knows exactly how those jobs get run, which is precisely why he runs his differently.
He is the person who answers your call, the person who measures your yard, and the person standing there when the last panel goes up. There is nobody to hand you off to, because the person who promised you something is the person who has to look at you in your own back yard.
Twenty years of doing this. None of the overhead.
Tony Sandoval has spent more than 20 years on the front lines of fencing in Northern Virginia, including years as a superintendent running crews for the large companies you are probably also getting quotes from. Same standards, same materials, same way of building it — without a sales floor, a call volume target, or a district manager between you and the person doing the work. That is the thing the big outfits genuinely cannot offer: a company that earns your business every day.
Every request, every time. If we somehow miss you, call the number on this page and you will get the owner, not a queue.
Why it matters: Read the one and two star reviews of fence companies around here and they are almost never about the fence. They are about a homeowner who could not get a straight answer out of anybody. Clear communication is the cheapest thing in this business to get right and the thing most often got wrong.
Tony measures your project personally, in your yard, with you standing there. Not a salesperson working from a tablet in the driveway.
Why it matters: The highest-praise review in this market was a homeowner who said that out of five companies who came to quote, only one actually walked into the yard. That is a shockingly low bar, and it is the whole job.
You get your price in writing before anything is booked: the total for the job, the per-linear-foot number where that helps you compare, and separate quotes if you want to supply your own material. No obligation attached to any of it.
Why it matters: Fence pricing is opaque, and most homeowners are collecting three to five quotes with no way to tell what is actually different between them. A number you can hold next to another number is worth more than a number with a signature line under it.
Every job gets a utility locate ticket filed before we put a shovel in the ground — that one is never optional. If your project also needs a county permit or homeowners association approval, we prepare the drawings and specifications and submit them for you.
Why it matters: Digging without a locate is how somebody hits a gas line. And neighborhoods across Gainesville, Haymarket, Bristow, and Aldie govern fence height, material, color, and which way the finished side faces. Getting it wrong means tearing it out.
Before we start, we walk the line together so you know exactly where the fence is going and what it will look like. When the last panel is up, we walk it again. Anything you are not happy with gets fixed while we are still standing there.
Why it matters: The complaint underneath almost every bad fence experience is that nobody put real care into the job. Two walkthroughs, with you, is how care stops being a word on a website.
If your fence needs three posts reset instead of a full replacement, that is what we will quote. If a repair buys you ten more years, we will say so in writing.
Why it matters: It costs us a bigger invoice today and earns the referral that actually builds a business. We would rather be the company your neighbor recommends.
You are not taking a chance on someone learning the trade. You are hiring the person the big companies used to put in charge of your job.
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