These water based outdoor garden paints - are they good for keeping the damp out of the wood and prolonging the life of a timber structure, or are they more decorative? I had a pot of one it was a semi-opaque colour wash, but surely it wasn't just watered down paint? is there some effective sealer or something in them? Or a fungicide?
I have built a beautiful shed, completed in the Autumn. There wasn't any point in painting the outside feather edge boards in the wet, but now when we have some dry weeks and sunshine I might give it a coat of paint. The idea that I could just do one (or two) coats quickly with a big emulsion brush is quite appealing. I am not doing primer, u-coat, u-coat, gloss, gloss with all the knotting and rubbing down etc like they did in the olden days - I have my leisure time to think of.
Tim W