That agrees with what I said BTW. Mine is OK without any treatments for the last 25 years. As I said creosote does nothing and your evidence says the same.
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is Creosote banned? (2024 Update)
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I'd cheerfully throttle CAS given half a chance. The second most infuriating thing on Radio 4, just behind Shela Dillon's Unbearably Smug Food programme. Melanie Philips doesn't count 'cos I run towards the radio so fast to turn it off that all I can hear is a high whistle.
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13 years ago
Excellent!
(And exactly how I feel about The Archers.)
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From listening to all Radio 4 except the archers, these days I never even put it on at all.
Occasionally I find I have missed something rather good, - material world occasionally has a snippet, but I player sorts that.
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That is your monopoly, although there are others trying for that job.
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Is that the same Melanie Philips who is a columnist for the Daily Mail? Seen her a few times on Question Time and she spoke utter drivel about whatever was the subject.
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Yes, it seems that generally speaking it's most helpful to take anything he says with a very large pinch of STFU.
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Yes, it seems that generally speaking it's most helpful to take anything he says with a very large pinch of STFU.
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Dennis, the pair of highly-vocal 'nads?
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Well being as none of the people that have replied have even bothered to read my posts I don't think I will worry about them. All have said how effective creosote is when applied by pressure treatment when I specifically said applied by DIY, i.e. brushing or soaking. The one poster that actually said he had soaked the stuff missed the point anyway.. saying a fence has lasted 38 years while only being painted with creosote does mean it has lasted any longer than if he hadn't painted it with creosote. Mine, however, has been up for 30 years and has not been painted with anything in the last 25 years. I still say that creosote does nothing useful for any diy user and citing telephone poles and sleepers as examples of where it has worked is irrelevant.
The way to stop fences rotting is to make sure they can dry out, this kills the rot. No amount of soaking a fence post in creosote will stop it rotting in the ground as it leaches out quickly. If it worked why are concrete posts so popular? Even proper pressure treated posts will rot in the ground after a decade or two.
Add to the ineffectiveness of creosote the dangers, the horrid colour, the smell, the fact it kills plants, doesn't dry for weeks, have to keep kids and pets away from it for weeks and you have to ask why anyone would want the stuff.
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I soaked the end grain, nothing more. It amounted to about 6 inches of the 8 - 10ft rails and the last couple of inches of the verticals. All the rest was painted with a brush. This was bog standard softwood, never, ever intended for outdoor use but was otherwise going to waste.
If you really expect a softwood to last 38 years without any treatment then you must be living in a secure indoor facility that doesn't permit pissing on the woodwork
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If you talked any more sense you'd still be talking complete bollocks
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Yup, the Bile Duct gives her page-space, too. I occasionally pick the filthy rag up at the FiL's house when there's nothing else to read.
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Just for a moment I thought you were talking about Melanie Philips.
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It's not me that is suggesting that putting creosote on fences causes them to have a shorter lifespan than untreated fences.
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Probably best to do a wiki article on how creosote reduces the lifespan of a fence:-)
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That might be because untreated fences are liable for VAT.... or sumfink
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You are the only one to suggest it does!
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It was you that said yesterday at 19:03 "Because I haven't been using it for years and the ones that have have had to replace their fences."
You really are a first class tool.
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So what, that does not say that I claimed the stuff with creosote last less. The local conditions could easily account for one fence rotting a few years earlier, it may even mean that some creosoted fences will last longer than mine. If creosote actually made much difference the majority of treated fences would last longer.
You are just thick.