Fence staining Farragut TN is privacy fencing and picket runs on house lots, plus the shared fences that sit on a property line. The sunny side fades first. The shaded side grows algae. New pressure-treated pine often is not ready to stain. Castle Painters cleans, checks the posts, waits for dry wood, and stains. We do not paint these boards with a house coating that will peel. Repairs are separate lines.
If you have an HOA color list, it applies to the fence when the sheet says it does. Bring it. We follow it. If you do not have a sheet, you pick the stain and we write the name down.
Fence staining Farragut TN: posts, access, and a dry board
We check the bottom of posts and the bottoms of boards. Ground contact and sprinkler overspray are where pine fails. A soft post is replaced or it is called out as your carpenter's work before we stain. Stain on a hollow post is wasted. Boards that are split or loose get the same honest read. Gray, sound wood can take stain. We do not condemn a fence for being weathered.
Washing removes dirt and the green film on the shade side. Then the fence has to dry. An open lot in full sun may be ready sooner than a run that backs up to trees. We do not force both onto one schedule. Brush work at the rails and the overlaps matters. A spray pass that misses the edge joints looks thin by the next season.
Shared fences need a yes from the neighbor before we step across. You get that yes, or we stain the side we can reach and we write the limit. Gates are stained if they are wood, and they have to swing so the latch edge gets coated. Metal gates are cleaned of overspray and left unstained.
New pine, old stain, and color
Fresh treated lumber that still beads water is too green. We will tell you to wait. Staining it early traps moisture and the coat fails. A fence that was stained years ago and is fading evenly is a normal recoat after a wash, as long as the water test says the wood is open. A fence with a peeling paint film is not a same-day stain. The film has to come off or the new product will peel with it.
Semi-transparent stain shows grain and will fade faster on the west-facing run. Solid stain evens out mismatched boards and older repairs. We use one product for the fence unless you want a gate in a different tone, and even then we say how odd that will look. Color is a sample on the actual wood when the choice is close. A sample on a sunny picket and a sample on a shaded privacy board will not dry the same shade. We let you see that.
Sprinklers are turned off for the dry time and for a day after, or the bottom course is watered and the stain marks. That is a homeowner step we will put in the note.
Not a house-paint checklist
We do not pressure-wash chalk off the siding and call it fence prep. We do not caulk the fence like window trim. Deck stain and fence stain can be related products and still be specified separately, because the wear is different. Horizontal deck boards traffic off. Vertical fence boards fade. The deck page is the walking surface. The Farragut painters page is the house.
Completed fence staining carries a 3-year written warranty.
Privacy boards on a sunny lot gray from the top rail down. Picket fences gray on the face that sees the street. We sample the stain on the weathered face, not on a fresh cut, so the color you approve is the color the old wood will actually take. Neighbor plantings that touch the boards are pulled back by you before the day. We stain wood. We do not cut landscaping to reach it.
Get a free estimate. We walk the runs, check the posts, confirm which sides we can reach, and write the stain.
Fence staining Farragut TN on posts, gates, and shared sides
Fence staining Farragut TN starts at the bottom of the posts and the bottom rail, where soil and sprinkler splash keep the wood wet. A soft post is a repair, not a heavier coat of stain. Privacy runs and shorter picket runs are both wood work. We clean, we dry, and we stain. New treated pine that still beads water waits, even when the older bays are ready.
Open sun fades the outer face. A wooded edge keeps algae on the lower boards and needs more time to dry. We do not promise one dry time for every side of the lot. Both faces are stained when we can reach them. A shared run needs the neighbor's yes before we write the back as included. Gates take longer than a bay of boards because the latch edge and the hinge edge have to be coated or the raw stripe shows the first time the gate opens.
House paint is the wrong product on a fence. It sits on the surface and peels. We name a penetrating stain instead. Wood caps are stained. Metal caps are masked. The free estimate is the walkthrough. The written estimate lists bays, gates, repairs, and which sides we can reach. Work we complete carries a 3-year written warranty.
Decks are on deck staining in Farragut. The rest of the house is on the Farragut painters page. Get a free estimate to book the look.