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Some fencing wholesalers can supply darker brown fence panels rather than the standard tending to mucky orange.
Cuprinol Ducksback used to come in a range of colours. We previously had the panels blue on our side.
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Better off using screws and guide holes on the insubstantially dimensioned timber used for framing fence panels.
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Cupranol. (or the premium ronseal if it's significantly cheaper).
Paint pannels before installation.
People say get a sprayer. IMO a big brush is fine, and I worried about spray back on the house/neighbours.
If you buy a diy grade sprayer, buy it from Screwfix so when it breaks (which it will) you can take it back and use the credit for something else.
Be aware that coloured pannels require repainting. Here are the ones I painted during lock down with Cupranol in Suburban Anthracite. IMO this is an excellent colour to contrast with foliage. The shed is also Cuprinol or Ronseal premium in Pinterest Grey - this is a much more capricious colour, and I wouldn't use it for fences.
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Shed is cuprinol golden oak but it's a bit poo brown. Fence is ronseal fence life plus Tudor Oak which I quite like, plus as @hugo7 points out, dark works well as a foliage background.
Both require at least two coats and if you have anything other than flat fence panels they will take a long time to paint. We have some with a lattice along the top and it took forever.
Planed panels do look nice and clean though, vs sawn featheredge.
Be aware that if the panels are tongue and groove, the wood will likely shrink/expand and reveal unpainted bits.
The water based finishes make cleaning up easy but do make sure you protect the ground beneath where you paint. Our patio looks a bit Jackson Pollock.
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I plan to replace the fence panels on one side in the next month, there are good posts to reuse and they seem to all be standard 6' square panels I can nail in pretty easily (probably). However I really feel like the standard stain/wood look is a bit dull, and actually a bit unpleasant when new so am considering a colour for the lot of it, the question is what, and also how? *
Thinking about a nice dark colour, ie black or very dark green? Not really inspired by anything more modern/colourful as I'm worried it will date a bit, and I'd like to avoid just-buy-a-fucking-new-build greige.