GoodFence or Jacksons Fencing — a manufacturer or an installer?.
This isn't a better-or-worse comparison, it's a different-purchase comparison. Jacksons makes fencing and sells it, with installation available through their network. We don't make anything — we survey your boundary, choose the spec that suits it, and fit it with our own team. Both are legitimate routes to a good fence.
Jacksons is a long-established British fencing manufacturer with its own product range and guarantees; GoodFence is an installer working across timber, composite and metal from multiple suppliers — so it's a choice between buying into one manufacturer's system or having someone spec the boundary from the whole market.
A manufacturer
Jacksons Fencing — a British maker with its own range and guarantees.
GoodFence
An installer: we spec from the market and fit it ourselves.
Side by side
A manufacturer
GoodFence
- What they are
- A manufacturerA manufacturer selling its own products
- GoodFenceA contractor with its own fitting team
- Product range
- A manufacturerTheir own range, made to their spec
- GoodFenceTimber, composite and metal from several suppliers
- Guarantees
- A manufacturerManufacturer guarantees on their products
- GoodFenceManufacturer guarantees on the materials we fit
- Who specs the job
- A manufacturerYou pick from the catalogue
- GoodFenceWe spec it from photos and a site survey
- Who fits it
- A manufacturerTheir installation network
- GoodFenceOur own team, in GoodFence kit
- Where
- A manufacturerNationwide
- GoodFenceLondon and the South East, from two bases
- Best if
- A manufacturerYou want a specific manufacturer's system
- GoodFenceYou want the boundary specced and fitted by one team
Prices are per metre, supplied and fitted, inc VAT, for a typical-length run across London and the South East. Access, ground and optional removal of the old fence move the number.
Choose a manufacturer if
- You want a named manufacturer's system and the guarantees that come with it.
- You've seen a specific product of theirs and that's the fence you want.
- You're outside London and the South East, where we don't work.
- The specification is already decided and you just need it supplied.
Choose goodfence if
- You'd rather someone looked at the boundary and told you what it needs.
- You want to compare timber, composite and metal without being tied to one range.
- You want the survey, the price and the install to sit with one company.
- You're in London or the South East and want a local team on it.
What nobody puts in the brochure
A manufacturer
Buying into one manufacturer's system means the spec is chosen before the boundary is looked at, and later changes tend to route back to the same range.
GoodFence
We're not a manufacturer — we don't own a factory or a product line, and we only cover London and the South East. If you want a specific brand's fence, go to that brand.
Questions we get asked
Still deciding?
Composite vs timber
Buy timber if you want the lowest price today and don't mind treating or replacing it inside twenty years; buy composite if you plan to stay put and want a boundary you never touch again — it costs roughly twice as much per metre fitted and only pays that back over time.
Closeboard vs overlap
Overlap panels are the cheapest way to replace a whole boundary and the easiest to change later; closeboard costs more per metre but is a genuinely stronger fence, built on site, that outlasts panels by years.
Hit-and-miss vs closeboard
Closeboard gives you total privacy and costs less; hit-and-miss lets wind through on purpose, which is what you want on an exposed garden, and looks the same from both sides — so it's the better neighbour fence.
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