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I used cuprinol to spruce up the fence and gate of our last house when we put it up for sale. It looked good for the agents photos but by the time the sale had gone through, about 6 months later, it looked shit. Do not use.
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Even the best quality fence panels I can find in outer north west London are pretty poor in reality. Made from quick grown UK timber the featheredge planks have a very open grain and no lumber is rejected; resin-rich zones reject any coating, knots fall out and the standard 'finish' is the (cheaper) dark brown low hazard wood preserver. The panels are assembled with the wood unseasoned. Even just a weeks storage after purchase, (from a fresh delivery from the manufacturer, the place I use gets 2 deliveries a week), the panels lose some weight and develop splits where the machined-in nails have strayed too close to edges. Fence paints themselves have little opacity, have scant UV resistance and are generally on the murky scale, but what can you expect at £2/litre?
A decent shed, clad with planed shiplap might be a different story.
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Yes. I got these panels from Howe Fencing near Ware and stained with two coats of Ronseal Fence Life Plus. Staining took fucking ages because of all the fiddly corners and edges but I'm happy with the result
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Possibly more relevant for the garden thread, but I'm looking for ways of changing up our garden's look and had a few Qs:
Has anyone painted / stained their shed or fence panels?
There are a few companies that make nice but pricy colours and I was wondering how feasible it would be to tint the ronseal stuff? Say their dark green with a bit of white to get more of a sage colour? ALL. THE. THINGS. in our garden are that orangey brown and I wanted to mix it up.
We have some brick troughs and I wanted to paint them a slate grey. Would they need a pcv + white primer first to seal them?