Stain fails on timing far more often than on product. Cedar has to dry out before it will take anything, and the surface has to be clean before it will hold.
Get a Free QuoteNew cedar arrives wet. Seal it in that first month and the stain sits on top of moisture it cannot displace, then peels the following summer. We check the wood rather than the calendar.
On an older fence the enemy is the grey surface layer, which is dead fibre. Stain applied over it takes the dead layer with it when it goes. Cleaning and brightening first is what makes the difference between two years and five.
Timed to the cure, not the install date. The single biggest factor in how long it holds.
Grey, weathered fences cleaned back to live wood and re-stained.
Wash and neutralise without the pressure damage that fuzzes the grain.
On a cycle, so the fence never gets back to bare grey.
North Texas is hard on a finish from two directions. August UV bleaches the south and west faces of a run, while the north-facing side stays damp and grows the green film you see along shaded fence lines. The other quiet killer is irrigation: a sprinkler head throwing against the bottom two feet of cedar will strip stain there years before the rest. We check for overspray while we quote, because re-staining a fence that gets watered nightly is money spent twice.
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