Siding painting and deck staining in Colleyville, TX (76034)

Colleyville mixes 1970s and 1980s ranch and two-story homes on large lots with custom houses built through the 2000s and later. Many older homes carry more wood than the typical Tarrant County brick house: board-and-batten or lap siding on full elevations, cedar shutters, wood carriage-style garage doors and big rear decks. Newer builds lean on brick, stone and fiber-cement siding with painted trim. Mature post oaks and pecans shade much of the town, which slows drying after rain, feeds mildew on north walls and drops tannin-stained debris onto decks and railings.

On wooded lots, the lowest few courses of siding stay damp longest after sprinklers and storms, and that moisture works behind the paint film. You'll often see blistering or peeling starting a foot or two above the beds while the upper wall looks fine. We scrape and sand those areas back to sound edges with 80 then 120 grit, let the wood dry thoroughly, and seal end grain before priming.

We also check sprinkler heads and grade. When a head sprays directly onto siding, or mulch sits against the bottom board, new paint will fail the same way within a couple of summers. We'll point it out so you can redirect the spray or pull the beds back, and we'll replace any soft boards with primed wood or fiber cement before the finish coats. Keeping a two-inch gap between siding and soil makes a real difference.

Colleyville decks collect leaves, acorns and pollen that leave dark marks and keep the boards damp. We clean with a wood cleaner, follow with an oxalic brightener to pull out gray and tannin stains, and give the deck at least two dry days before staining. On shaded decks, a semi-transparent penetrating stain usually outperforms a solid film because it breathes and wears gradually rather than flaking.

Typical Colleyville deck and pergola staining runs $1,420 to $4,760, depending on square footage, railing count, board condition, overhead beam height and whether old solid stain must be stripped first. That's a guide, not a quote, and we'll confirm it after measuring. Loose deck screws get reset and popped nails get driven before we stain, since a raised head will tear through a fresh coat the first time someone drags a chair across it.

• Cleaner plus brightener before every stain
• Moisture check on boards before application
• Railings and balusters brushed, not just sprayed
• Pergola beams reached with planks and ladders

Many Colleyville homes have carriage-style wood garage doors, and the bottom panels take a beating from splashback and sun. We sand stained wood doors, repair split panels and recoat with an exterior spar varnish or a semi-transparent stain matched to the original tone. Steel doors with hail dings get cleaned, scuffed, spot primed and painted in a 100% acrylic that tolerates heat buildup.

We work on one door at a time when possible, so you can still pull a car in each evening, and we schedule the job for cooler mornings so the finish doesn't flash dry on a sun-heated panel. Weatherstripping and the bottom seal get masked rather than painted, and we cycle the door open and closed once the coating has set so panels don't stick together at the joints.