Plano Fence Company offers fence care and maintenance advice.

Plano Fence Company owner Sean Eubanks, of Texas State Fence Co.,  offers fence care and maintenance advice for your fence.

This is the last in a series of articles about installing your own fence and taking care of it. Prior articles in the series include:

1. Allen Fence Company provides instructions for D-I-Y fence builders
2. McKinney fence company - DIY fence design and layout guidelines
3. Plano fence company - DIY Guidelines for digging postholes
4. Allen Fence Company offers advice on digging and setting fence posts.
5. McKinney Fence Company tells how to install panels and pickets
6. Frisco Fence Company discusses gate installation and fence finishing

You can significantly extend the life of your fence and reduce maintenance costs by remembering to do several simple things over the life of your fence:

1. Continuous changes in weather conditions are hard on wood fences. Maintenance plans must be geared to combating the problems initiated by water absorption and loss, expansion due to changes in temperature, mildew growth, and Ultra-Violet discoloration.
2. First Year Maintenane: Reapply a cleaner - brightener and reapply a sealer and or a UV protectant after about 12 months of use.
3. Future Preventative Maintenance: Periodically, depdneing on the location of your fence with regard to sun exposure, foliage exposure, etc. it may be necessary to continue to provide cleaners and sealants and to recoat as often as every couple of years.  Power washing the fence can help to remove dirt which, similar to dirt on car paint, can attract and retain moisture which is the single biggest agent of damage to a wood fence. Trimming foilage back from the fence can help to reduce damage and it is very critical that you watch and make sure that soil does not come into contact with the bottom edge of the fence. Soil can make it easy for both moisture and insects to damage your fence.

Plano fence company owner Sean Eubanks started his company, Texas State Fence Co., to provide quality outdoor fencing and landscape hard structures to clients in North Texas. Texas State Fence Co. provides all types of fencing along with automatic sliding gates, swing gates, security fencing, outdoor kitchens and enclosures, patio covers, arbors, and gazebos. Sean also provides maintenance and repair of fences that have been damaged by weather and wind.  For more information please contact Sean Eubanks at 972-898-1307 for visit his website.