Inspect & repair
We walk the line first: soft boards near grade, popped fasteners, leaning sections. Staining over a problem seals the problem in — pickets that need replacing get replaced before anything gets coated.
Wood fence maintenance
Fence staining that earns
the next fifteen years.
Every wood fence we install comes with the same instruction: stain it every 2–3 years and it'll outlive the mortgage. This is that service — inspection, cleaning, and a penetrating stain in the color you pick below. Preview all five on an actual fence, not a paint chip.
Priced from photos and footage
$3.25 a foot, both sides, on top of the $350 minimum visit. A 150-foot privacy fence lands around $840. Send three photos and a footage guess; Dave texts a number the same day.
Get my staining number →Owner-operator Dave Rogers runs the crew · (260) 499-1418 · Prefer email? Request a quote →
Pick your color
Five stains, shown on the actual fence.
These renders come from the same engine as our fence designer. Click a swatch to swap the stain — vertical privacy first, horizontal below it.
On a privacy fence
Stockade privacy — the most common fence we stain.
On a horizontal fence
Modern horizontal board — stain choice makes or breaks this look.
The do-nothing option
What "we'll stain it later" looks like.
Skip the stain and Indiana weather picks your color for you. Cedar and treated pine both silver out to gray within a couple of seasons — this render is roughly where an unstained fence heads. If you love the driftwood look, we'll seal it that way on purpose. If you don't, the schedule below keeps you ahead of it.
How it works
Three steps, no shortcuts.
Clean & brighten
Power wash to lift gray fiber, mildew, and old failing finish, then a wood brightener where the fence has weathered dark. Stain only performs on clean, dry wood — this step is most of the labor and most of the result.
Dry, then stain
The fence dries out over a couple of good days, then we apply a penetrating semi-transparent stain — back-brushed so it gets into the grain instead of sitting on top. Sprinklers off for 48 hours, and the yard is yours again.
Pricing depends on footage, height, sides coated, and prep — there's no honest flat rate. Tell us the fence and you'll get a real number. If we installed it, we already have the measurements on file. New fence instead? Start at wood privacy installation — staining at build time is the cheapest coat you'll ever buy.
Staining questions
Fence staining, answered straight.
Schedules, costs, timing, and the gray question.
Every 2–3 years in Indiana. Our freeze-thaw cycles and summer UV work on exposed wood constantly — a maintained stain schedule is the difference between a fence that lasts 20+ years and one that needs boards replaced at year eight. The easy test: sprinkle water on a board. If it soaks in instead of beading, the fence is ready.
Due for a coat?
Send the fence. Get the number.
Photos, a footage guess, and where it lives. Inspection and prep are in the price; the color gets previewed above before we open a can.
Get a staining number
Three photos and a footage guess. That's the whole form.
Dave prices staining from photos and footage, not a driveway visit. Every visit starts at $350; stain runs $3.25 a foot both sides on top of that. It's an estimate until he sees the fence — but it's usually close.
Ready?
Fence needs more than stain?
Leaning posts, a gate that drags, boards the dog took — the repair page prices those from photos too. Same crew, same $350 minimum visit.