Estrada put up a cedar fence in April. The quality was good for the price we paid, though the height of some of the posts weren't the same and some of the screws were still sticking out. They told us it would need to be stained about 4 weeks later to protect it from graying. So about a month later we called to get a quote on staining. We got him to come down about $50 off the original quote, we picked out ac cherry wood stain (per his suggestion), and then we scheduled the work to be done on a Saturday.
Here's where it all goes wrong... the Friday before they were supposed to come out, Luis called and asked if they could come that day instead. We were hesitant since we wouldn't be there to make sure everything was done properly, but he assured us it was ok for us not to be home. At the end of the day we never received a call telling us the work had been completed, so we assumed everything went smoothly. When we got home that evening, though, we were horrified to find a pick, splotchy stained fence. It looked terrible. What's worse, they had used a spray gun to apply the stain, and they had gotten stain on everything in our back yard, including the vegetables in our garden. It was on our downspouts, our patio furniture (which could have been moved out of the way), the neighbors fence, the brick on our house...everything. Had we been home, we would have covered what we could, but instead we ended up having to pull up most of our vegetables. At that point, we called Luis to ask what happened and why the fence looked so bad. He said the stain wouldn't take on the wood for some reason and they the amount of money he quoted us wasn't enough to cover it. After some pushing, he agreed to come back the next morning and apply more stain.
The next day, we waited around until 2:00 pm for them to show up (after calling Luis numerous times and being told they'd be there "soon"). The 2 guys that came had not been told that they needed to restain the entire fence, so then 1 of them had to go back and get more supplies. They finally got started again (not bothering to put tarps or plastic over anything again) and after 2 more hours, the stain still didn't look right. We had to continually point out areas where it was blotchy. When we asked them why it looked so bad, they told us Luis had told them to only put 2 coats of stain on, and that usually a job like that requires at least 3 coats. When they were done, Luis got on the phone with us and started to get loud about having to send his guys out there and use all that stain. He ultimately hung up on us.
We completely regret having Estrada Fences install and stain our fence. Please save yourself the headache and go with someone more professional.