A Pair of Hands Contracting is a premier design-build firm specializing in high-quality residential construction. With a dedicated team of licensed architects, engineers, and skilled professionals, we deliver exceptional craftsmanship and seamless project execution. As a full-service, turnkey contractor, we manage every aspect of the construction process—from initial design through final completion—ensuring your project is delivered on time and within budget. Our team prioritizes precision, efficiency, and collaboration, working closely with clients to bring their vision to life while maintaining the highest standards of quality and professionalism. Our comprehensive services include: - Custom Home Design & Construction - Decks & Porches - Roof, Siding & Window Replacements - Asphalt Paving & Driveways - Fencing & More We are MHIC Licensed & Insured & a Registered Maryland Home Builder, providing peace of mind and reliability for every project we undertake.
"The work was quick and nicely done. I love my deck. They did a great job!"
LaTonya H on May 2022
A Pair of Hands Contracting is a premier design-build firm specializing in high-quality residential construction. With a dedicated team of licensed architects, engineers, and skilled professionals, we deliver exceptional craftsmanship and seamless project execution. As a full-service, turnkey contractor, we manage every aspect of the construction process—from initial design through final completion—ensuring your project is delivered on time and within budget. Our team prioritizes precision, efficiency, and collaboration, working closely with clients to bring their vision to life while maintaining the highest standards of quality and professionalism. Our comprehensive services include: - Custom Home Design & Construction - Decks & Porches - Roof, Siding & Window Replacements - Asphalt Paving & Driveways - Fencing & More We are MHIC Licensed & Insured & a Registered Maryland Home Builder, providing peace of mind and reliability for every project we undertake.
"The work was quick and nicely done. I love my deck. They did a great job!"
LaTonya H on May 2022
7th State Builders, LLC, is dedicated to providing our customers with the best quality and craftsmanship. We are here to build relationships with our customers and communities and to provide our employees with a great place to work. 7th State Builders, LLC, is a leader in providing our customers with the highest quality products and craftsmanship in an honest, efficient, and professional way. Our pledge is to create successful relationships with our customers, employees and community by building trust, treating every project with the utmost integrity and exceeding expectations.
"7th state builders redid my kitchen floor and cabinets. The work was done beautifully."
Damien G on March 2025
7th State Builders, LLC, is dedicated to providing our customers with the best quality and craftsmanship. We are here to build relationships with our customers and communities and to provide our employees with a great place to work. 7th State Builders, LLC, is a leader in providing our customers with the highest quality products and craftsmanship in an honest, efficient, and professional way. Our pledge is to create successful relationships with our customers, employees and community by building trust, treating every project with the utmost integrity and exceeding expectations.
"7th state builders redid my kitchen floor and cabinets. The work was done beautifully."
Damien G on March 2025
First Class Chimney Services' experienced technicians arrive when they say they will. We provide a level of customer service satisfaction in the chimney business. Our Certified Chimney Technicians are experts in regular cleanings, pointing and retouching, and restorations authentic to the original. Our mission is to provide you with the information and quality service you need at a reasonable rate. If at any time within completion of our chimney services should you find a workmanship problem, or anything you are not quite satisfied with, contact us immediately. We will promptly respond to the issue and do our best to make the situation right with you. First Class Chimney Service, LLC would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are; we will be more than happy to help you.
"Fast service, professional, and affordable. Thank you for your service."
Vah P on April 2025
First Class Chimney Services' experienced technicians arrive when they say they will. We provide a level of customer service satisfaction in the chimney business. Our Certified Chimney Technicians are experts in regular cleanings, pointing and retouching, and restorations authentic to the original. Our mission is to provide you with the information and quality service you need at a reasonable rate. If at any time within completion of our chimney services should you find a workmanship problem, or anything you are not quite satisfied with, contact us immediately. We will promptly respond to the issue and do our best to make the situation right with you. First Class Chimney Service, LLC would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are; we will be more than happy to help you.
"Fast service, professional, and affordable. Thank you for your service."
Vah P on April 2025
We are building the most customer-friendly outdoor construction company. Our services include Fence Installation. Our tech allows anyone to design and customize their project quote online to meet their budget and needs. Our responsive team of experts offers end-to-end project support to deliver the best value for customers. The Ergeon process makes every project transparent and hassle-free.- and over 20,000 homeowners are enjoying the outdoor spaces we've built for them! Now with over 8,000 public reviews at an average rating of 4.7, we have expanded to cover more than 32 million households.
"If I could select zero stars I would! I've been trying to resolve a very poor install of my gates for over a month and no-one has been out yet! No communication. I was told my case worker is out sick. Finally someone else did call me but I have yet to hear back from them. I guess they just wanted to put a check in the box that they communicated with me. My gates were not level, were installed without the steel post beams, no drop rod on 5ft heavy gates!, and the post caps keep flying off because they were not glued on. Now every time we have a windy day, I come home and my gates have been blown open and a side piece of the gate was also blown off by the wind! The fence was installed by one guy on a super hot day and he kept calling his boss for install instructions. This should have been at least a two man job. The installer was also not the person I was told would be doing the install, but ended up being a sub installer of the subcontractor! I have resorted to filing a claim with MD Home Improvement Commission as well as started the process to file a small claim since I can't get a response from them. Oh.... and I HAD TO PAY OUT OF POCKET AND INSTALL post hole covers myself because they NEVER got back to me and the rain and spiders kept filling up the hole. I can't make this stuff up. They are TERRIBLE! Don't use them! You were warned."
James D on December 2024
We are building the most customer-friendly outdoor construction company. Our services include Fence Installation. Our tech allows anyone to design and customize their project quote online to meet their budget and needs. Our responsive team of experts offers end-to-end project support to deliver the best value for customers. The Ergeon process makes every project transparent and hassle-free.- and over 20,000 homeowners are enjoying the outdoor spaces we've built for them! Now with over 8,000 public reviews at an average rating of 4.7, we have expanded to cover more than 32 million households.
"If I could select zero stars I would! I've been trying to resolve a very poor install of my gates for over a month and no-one has been out yet! No communication. I was told my case worker is out sick. Finally someone else did call me but I have yet to hear back from them. I guess they just wanted to put a check in the box that they communicated with me. My gates were not level, were installed without the steel post beams, no drop rod on 5ft heavy gates!, and the post caps keep flying off because they were not glued on. Now every time we have a windy day, I come home and my gates have been blown open and a side piece of the gate was also blown off by the wind! The fence was installed by one guy on a super hot day and he kept calling his boss for install instructions. This should have been at least a two man job. The installer was also not the person I was told would be doing the install, but ended up being a sub installer of the subcontractor! I have resorted to filing a claim with MD Home Improvement Commission as well as started the process to file a small claim since I can't get a response from them. Oh.... and I HAD TO PAY OUT OF POCKET AND INSTALL post hole covers myself because they NEVER got back to me and the rain and spiders kept filling up the hole. I can't make this stuff up. They are TERRIBLE! Don't use them! You were warned."
James D on December 2024
The founding owners, Jim Rubush & Ben Wolod, established Fence & Deck Connection in 1991. As lifetime Anne Arundel County residents, their commitment to providing the finest customer service in the industry has been instrumental to their success. The addition of Jeffrey Wall into the partnership in 2013 has added a great depth of sales & marketing expertise to help provide a customer experience like no other. Fence & Deck Connection has grown from what was once a two-man operation to one of the leading fence and deck companies in the state of Maryland. We have financing available. Additional Email - jwall@fencedeckconnect.com. Award winning. Additional Service Area - Kent Island
"Buyer Beware Run Away! (we dealt with the Veterans Hwy office) Fence and Deck Connection is an unprofessional organization that "installs" fences poorly. Don't beleive me, keep reading. We hired Fence and Deck Connection to install roughly 10 feet of privacy fence and gate. We assumed that they were professional enough to plan, execute, and provide quality control for the project. Well none of that is true. Chris, the project manager, failed to plan, control, or lead the project. He delivered the wrong plans to the crew which put the fence in the wrong spot swinging the wrong way. The first attempt at our fence was wrong in every way. They had to come back--take it all down and rebuild it from scratch. Chris povided no leadership or quality control during the process. In fact, he couldn't be bothered to come back and check the work. On the first go the crew dumped dry concrete mix down the fence post holes and when confronted about it Chris attempted to claim this a dry pour. He said that this will harden with ground moisture into solid concrete. The crew that installed the fence on both occasions were not properly equipped to do the job given that the fence parts are not even cut to the right dimensions. To be clear we just left the "fixed" version with its poor install quality alone becasue the issues aren't worth having the fence rebuilt a third time. Things like the gate not being even, or that we were told by Bob, who is Chris's boss, that the fence was going to need be adjusted by September-- 5 months after install. The company treated us with a lack of respect and a lack of professionalism when it came our justified complaints about the wrong install, poor communication, customer service and workmanship. In fact, Joel told us that it was essentially our fault that the fence was wrong for providing the wrong plans, when the company was in fact in charge of that. Leaving aside the blatent deception with the "concrete" with no water-- which is all on video. I am sure this low-grade company will try to convince you that we are unreasonable customers or that they fixed it so all should be forgiven. Sure, we are unreasonable for thinking they should do a good job. Yes we are unreasonable for thinking that we should not have to watch them to make sure they do a good job. We are unreasonble for being insulted with a $100 Amazon gift card as a "good faith" gesture as if the issues weren't that bad when they had to completely replace and remeasure all fencing and gate. The time for them to make it right was immediately, and to leave a good impression started on day one. They left us running away. They demonstrated a lack of professionalism--sneaking onto our property to install the fence the first time saying nothing and sneaking away saying nothing when finished. The project manager couldn't even be bothered to keep the basics straight. Where the gate goes, how big it should be, where the posts go, what plan the workers needed-- nothing. This company is utterly incompetent and no matter what deal they offer you it is waste of your time and money."
Simon C on March 2025
The founding owners, Jim Rubush & Ben Wolod, established Fence & Deck Connection in 1991. As lifetime Anne Arundel County residents, their commitment to providing the finest customer service in the industry has been instrumental to their success. The addition of Jeffrey Wall into the partnership in 2013 has added a great depth of sales & marketing expertise to help provide a customer experience like no other. Fence & Deck Connection has grown from what was once a two-man operation to one of the leading fence and deck companies in the state of Maryland. We have financing available. Additional Email - jwall@fencedeckconnect.com. Award winning. Additional Service Area - Kent Island
"Buyer Beware Run Away! (we dealt with the Veterans Hwy office) Fence and Deck Connection is an unprofessional organization that "installs" fences poorly. Don't beleive me, keep reading. We hired Fence and Deck Connection to install roughly 10 feet of privacy fence and gate. We assumed that they were professional enough to plan, execute, and provide quality control for the project. Well none of that is true. Chris, the project manager, failed to plan, control, or lead the project. He delivered the wrong plans to the crew which put the fence in the wrong spot swinging the wrong way. The first attempt at our fence was wrong in every way. They had to come back--take it all down and rebuild it from scratch. Chris povided no leadership or quality control during the process. In fact, he couldn't be bothered to come back and check the work. On the first go the crew dumped dry concrete mix down the fence post holes and when confronted about it Chris attempted to claim this a dry pour. He said that this will harden with ground moisture into solid concrete. The crew that installed the fence on both occasions were not properly equipped to do the job given that the fence parts are not even cut to the right dimensions. To be clear we just left the "fixed" version with its poor install quality alone becasue the issues aren't worth having the fence rebuilt a third time. Things like the gate not being even, or that we were told by Bob, who is Chris's boss, that the fence was going to need be adjusted by September-- 5 months after install. The company treated us with a lack of respect and a lack of professionalism when it came our justified complaints about the wrong install, poor communication, customer service and workmanship. In fact, Joel told us that it was essentially our fault that the fence was wrong for providing the wrong plans, when the company was in fact in charge of that. Leaving aside the blatent deception with the "concrete" with no water-- which is all on video. I am sure this low-grade company will try to convince you that we are unreasonable customers or that they fixed it so all should be forgiven. Sure, we are unreasonable for thinking they should do a good job. Yes we are unreasonable for thinking that we should not have to watch them to make sure they do a good job. We are unreasonble for being insulted with a $100 Amazon gift card as a "good faith" gesture as if the issues weren't that bad when they had to completely replace and remeasure all fencing and gate. The time for them to make it right was immediately, and to leave a good impression started on day one. They left us running away. They demonstrated a lack of professionalism--sneaking onto our property to install the fence the first time saying nothing and sneaking away saying nothing when finished. The project manager couldn't even be bothered to keep the basics straight. Where the gate goes, how big it should be, where the posts go, what plan the workers needed-- nothing. This company is utterly incompetent and no matter what deal they offer you it is waste of your time and money."
Simon C on March 2025
Discover Gus & Sons Services, a trusted family-owned roofing company since 2008. Specializing in Decks, Fences, Roofing, Handyman services, Hardscaping, Painting, Electrical, and Plumbing, we offer comprehensive home improvement solutions. Ask about our exclusive 0% financing options and additional services not listed here. Trust Gus & Sons for quality craftsmanship and personalized service for all your home improvement needs.
"I had an excellent experience working with Gus & Sons on a fence construction project behind home. Gus and Edgar's outstanding communication, punctuality, and attention to detail were matched only by their kindness and patience. They listened to our preferences and offered valuable insights, delivering a strong and beautiful fence that exceeded our expectations. Their craftsmanship, problem solving abilities, and genuine dedication to customer service made them a joy to work with. I am truly delighted with the final result. I wholeheartedly recommend them and look forward to working with them again on more projects in the future."
Katie P on July 2023
Discover Gus & Sons Services, a trusted family-owned roofing company since 2008. Specializing in Decks, Fences, Roofing, Handyman services, Hardscaping, Painting, Electrical, and Plumbing, we offer comprehensive home improvement solutions. Ask about our exclusive 0% financing options and additional services not listed here. Trust Gus & Sons for quality craftsmanship and personalized service for all your home improvement needs.
"I had an excellent experience working with Gus & Sons on a fence construction project behind home. Gus and Edgar's outstanding communication, punctuality, and attention to detail were matched only by their kindness and patience. They listened to our preferences and offered valuable insights, delivering a strong and beautiful fence that exceeded our expectations. Their craftsmanship, problem solving abilities, and genuine dedication to customer service made them a joy to work with. I am truly delighted with the final result. I wholeheartedly recommend them and look forward to working with them again on more projects in the future."
Katie P on July 2023
We pride ourselves on the quality work we provide, while delivering great customer service. Check out our services offered and call or click to schedule an estimate today!
"An outstanding job by the men who were here"
Barry K on March 2025
We pride ourselves on the quality work we provide, while delivering great customer service. Check out our services offered and call or click to schedule an estimate today!
"An outstanding job by the men who were here"
Barry K on March 2025
Specialize in Fencing, anything from Driveway Gates, to your everyday Welding needs. I have been established and owned my own company. Please feel free to reach out directly.
"Very well."
Denise M on March 2025
Specialize in Fencing, anything from Driveway Gates, to your everyday Welding needs. I have been established and owned my own company. Please feel free to reach out directly.
"Very well."
Denise M on March 2025
Our mission is to be a provider that brings back the personal touch with our customers. We will build a relationship that will last a lifetime after you see our quality work. As a locally owned and operated business we feel invested in our clients and constantly strive for customer satisfaction. We won't leave until the job is done right! Call or click to schedule an estimate today!
"Excellent."
James H on April 2025
Our mission is to be a provider that brings back the personal touch with our customers. We will build a relationship that will last a lifetime after you see our quality work. As a locally owned and operated business we feel invested in our clients and constantly strive for customer satisfaction. We won't leave until the job is done right! Call or click to schedule an estimate today!
"Excellent."
James H on April 2025
500 employees. Cost is determined by the job. Travel charges may apply. Ask about Angie's List discount. Financing available. Additional locations - 2520 Urbana Pk, Ijamsville, Maryland 21754; 1910 Betson Ct, Odenton, MD 21113; 42521 John Mosby Hwy, Chantilly, Virginia 20152. Additional phone numbers - (301) 662-1600, (410) 793-0600 & (703) 471-0960. Additional fax numbers - (301) 874-5706, (301) 261-0643 & (703) 478-3545.
"Initial rep was great and informative. Felt comfortable with initial sale. Hardly had any contact from customer service except for the payments. There were several delays that we were not informed about unless we called to ask. Took 7 months before they showed up to begin project. Only 1 person was sent to build steps. Took a week. Hard worked, hardly took a break. Had to call again to see when they would come to pour patio. Never knew when they were coming, they just showed up. Hardly spoke with the homeowners. Inspection paperwork was just left on porch. Additional paperwork that is "required by the County" had to be completed by homeowner and taken to Court house to be notarized and filed and also provide a copy back to Long Fence. Time sensitive materials which added to homeowners to-do list. Gave this contract to LF on the surface of their history and appearance of a 'good local company' but should have stayed with original contactors in VA. Puddle of water forms when it rains"
Anissa B on February 2024
500 employees. Cost is determined by the job. Travel charges may apply. Ask about Angie's List discount. Financing available. Additional locations - 2520 Urbana Pk, Ijamsville, Maryland 21754; 1910 Betson Ct, Odenton, MD 21113; 42521 John Mosby Hwy, Chantilly, Virginia 20152. Additional phone numbers - (301) 662-1600, (410) 793-0600 & (703) 471-0960. Additional fax numbers - (301) 874-5706, (301) 261-0643 & (703) 478-3545.
"Initial rep was great and informative. Felt comfortable with initial sale. Hardly had any contact from customer service except for the payments. There were several delays that we were not informed about unless we called to ask. Took 7 months before they showed up to begin project. Only 1 person was sent to build steps. Took a week. Hard worked, hardly took a break. Had to call again to see when they would come to pour patio. Never knew when they were coming, they just showed up. Hardly spoke with the homeowners. Inspection paperwork was just left on porch. Additional paperwork that is "required by the County" had to be completed by homeowner and taken to Court house to be notarized and filed and also provide a copy back to Long Fence. Time sensitive materials which added to homeowners to-do list. Gave this contract to LF on the surface of their history and appearance of a 'good local company' but should have stayed with original contactors in VA. Puddle of water forms when it rains"
Anissa B on February 2024
PVC is a type of vinyl, and the two are often used to describe the same fencing material. For purchase and installation purposes, there is no difference between them.
Vinyl fences offer many advantages. They’re durable and low-maintenance, resisting rust and rot. They’re also available in a wide array of colors and designs and are relatively easy to install. However, they can be expensive to repair. Vinyl fence repair costs run up to $1,100 compared to standard fence repair costs, which range from $300 to $900. They also don’t hold up well in extreme climates.
Vinyl fencing is more expensive than wood fencing. However, it typically lasts much longer than wood fencing, making it a better long-term investment. It takes slightly longer to install, but it’s more forgiving of mistakes. However, you’ll need to paint, stain, or oil it every few years to keep it from rotting.
Vinyl fencing lasts anywhere from 10 to 30 years, depending on the quality of the material and installation and the weather in the region.