Treating wooden garden fence

Aug 23, 2017 3 Replies

I put up a new fence last year. 4 feet high by 30 feet long. Wooden posts and premade overlap fence panels***. All pressure treated, but it's time to think about some preservative treatment.



What's the best/easiest way to treat this? I probably have a sprayer somewhere, but I'm not sure whether wood preservative is safe to spray?



BTW, there's lawn more or less up to the edge of the fence, but no other plants.



Is there any sensible way to get preservative down into the underground parts of the posts? It's very sandy soil, so pouring a good load of preservative on the ground next to the posts would probably result in some of it trickling down. Very wasteful, though.


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The posts will rot at the soil to air boundary irrespective of what you attempt to add in the way of preservative now. When I had wooden posts bringing the fixing concrete to above soil level around the base of the post made them last a lot longer than posts where the backfill was just earth.

As for the fence panels its probably best not to treat them with any the so called (water based) preservative coatings unless you just want to change the colour.

No the pre treatment seems to be a joke. I have the same problem. the guy who erected it was bemoaning the poor standards in preservatives you can get these days. Brian

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