Fence Staining

The most common new-fence mistake in Austin is not skipping the finish — it is timing it wrong in either direction. Sealed the week it goes up, a fence wears a shallow coat that fails early; left bare through a full Texas summer, it starts the graying its finish was meant to prevent. The window…

Every fence in Central Texas eventually asks the same question: stain or paint? Both add color, both promise protection, and one of them is consistently the wrong answer for wood that lives outdoors in Austin. Here is the honest comparison, and why the fences that still look good at year ten almost all made the…