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What it includes
Clean, prep and stain. Builder fences go up as untreated pine, and one Texas summer of UV and one wet winter will grey and check the boards permanently. Sealing in the first year is the difference between a fence that lasts fifteen years and one that lasts seven.
Why softeners come first out here
Elmendorf runs hard supply through SAWS and Unigas territory, and the new construction going up along FM 1628 ships with a softener loop roughed in and nothing attached to it. The first thing homeowners notice is spotting on shower glass and a water heater cycling more than it should. It is the most-booked first job in 78112 and it is not close. The second is pest — grading for new subdivisions turns over ground that already had scorpions in it, and they find their way in through weep holes during the first summer.
Fence stain questions
When should a new fence be stained?
Once the wood has dried out but before it has weathered, which for a builder fence installed in this climate is usually somewhere between three and twelve months after it goes up.
While we’re out
Bundle two and the price drops five percent.