Deck, Fence & Wood Staining in Villa Park

Fence staining in Villa Park

A fence wears from the bottom up and the top down, so we pay the most attention to post tops, bottom rails and the cut ends of every picket. We wash and brighten the wood, strip or sand off stain that is peeling, and replace pickets and rails that have rotted. Gates get checked for sag and the hardware tightened before staining. Then the stain goes on dry wood, brushed into the end grain where water gets in first.

Villa Park is on our regular route, reached up Route 83 or along St. Charles Road, Roosevelt Road and North Avenue, with the Illinois Prairie Path running through town. If your sprinklers hit the fence or the grass grows up against the bottom boards, that wood stays wet, and that is where rot and stain failure start. We point out spray heads aimed at the fence and trim the grass line back before we stain the bottom few inches. A fence that faces a street or a path also takes more sun and wear on that side, so we look at both faces before we pick the stain.

What Villa Park fence staining includes

How a Villa Park fence job runs

After we walk the fence line, you get a written estimate with the length, the repairs, the gate work and the stain. If a post is rotted below grade or a rail breaks when we clean it, we show you and get your written OK on the price before replacing it. We schedule stain days when the wood is dry and the forecast is clear, and ask you to shut off the sprinklers for those days. When it is done, we walk it with you gate to gate.

• Written estimate with the gate work
• End grain and post tops sealed
• Grass line trimmed back
• Rotted pickets replaced
• Sprinkler heads pointed out
• Gate-to-gate walkthrough