What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly) preserve a wooden fence?
Cheers Richard
What's the best green stuff to colour and (more importantly) preserve a wooden fence?
Cheers Richard
Snot.
Not swarfega?
asparagus pee.
OK, OK! Swarfega-coloured paint? :-)
Ronseal?
Also, best regardless of price (e.g. Sadolin) or best value for money?
The stuff they use on green coloured pressure treated timber.
MBQ
I found Sadolin to be useless in Italy, the sun causes it to flake off in large sheets. Its accelerated ageing compared to the UK but indicates what will happen over time.
I would use Johnstones Shed and Fence paint, it has stood up well in the UK and in Italy.
So the green one then:-)?
Just been using some of that myself - very pleasant to use.
Also, for the more 'architectural' woodwork, their Quick Dry Opaque Wood Finish. Unlike several other brands, it can be tinted to requirement and covers quite well.
Rod
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Chromated copper arsenate, it works, its probably been banned.
My cheapskate neighbour uses a mixture of dieseline and old sump oil, with some green oil-based paint and some Metalex timber preservative (full of nasty stuff probably banned in the UK)
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In our old house I used Cuprinol Garden Wood Preserver (or possibly the equivalent about 8-9 years ago)
It's a spirit based one, rather than water based one which seems more about colouring something, than preserving.
In terms of colour it lasted pretty well IIRC. Preservative - TBH, weren't at the house really long enough after that to report back
Not for timber buried is soil or subject to damp over extended periods.
Everything useful is banned. I can't find fly spray that works any more. I think current varieties are supposed to scare flies to death by making a hissing noise.
I have been disposing of Wasps nests with some old (15 years) cat flea spray:-) Nuvan Top? Excellent results.
regards
I buy mine in the USA. Possibly not an option available to all. I expect the airlines don't allow aerosols in luggage but I simply don't tell them.
Is that 'cause of the risk of the arsenic leaching out or doesn't it work in the wet?
It does work, but not forever.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Liquorice" saying something like:
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