Fence treatment

[Petemate]

As title, quick question.
I have a large tub of Ronseal fence treatment. It is quite thin, even after stirring. I have obtained a pump-up sprayer, and wonder if anyone knows if I can use the sprayer with this large quantity of preservative to avoid the purchase of yet more preservative under the banner of 'sprayable'. Obviously, I am a bit of a tight git/don't wanna throw anything away (my lad says I am tighter than two coats of paint lol)

[B17NNS]

Assuming it's water based I don't see any reason why you can't water it down further.

[Alucidnation]

Can't beat a bit of creosote!

Shame its banned now

[mart 63]

Water based fence paints are crap for spraying. Buy yourself a 5 inch block brush from Dulux,job done. I peronaly painted around 2,000 panels with them last year,so i really do know what im talking about. Plus you will have arms like Popeye.

[8-P]

I did a combo.Sprayed it on then finished it off with a large brush as above. I also found even though I cleaned the sprayer with warm water taking it fully to bits it still blocked up when I tried to use it again a month later. Annoying but they are cheap in Screwfix.

2000 panels? I couldnt do 20 without giving up through boredom.

[DoubleSix]

Don't bother. It looks awful once weathered, adds expense, doesn't extend the life of the fence greatly and hides a naturally pleasing finish - wood!

[Mr GrimNasty]

Yep, save your time, nothing you paint/spray will make any significant difference to the life of the fence.

If your reason is cosmetic, then carry on, but you're just making more work for yourself.

Titchmarsh blue started this pointless nonsense, leave it natural.

[Petemate]

Cheers all! Thanks for all the input. In the end, as I only have 6 panels to do, I decided to save the expense of the sprayer and use a brush. (well, the OH will be doing it lololol)

[DoubleSix]

Well, I hope she likes doing it every year!

Please update thread when it starts looking st.

[mart 63]

DoubleSix said:

Well, I hope she likes doing it every year!

Please update thread when it starts looking st.

Sounds like you've had a bad experience with your fence panels.

[DoubleSix]

Nope. Got a pal with a fencing business and have listed the reasons above.

I don't paint my fences.

[j4ckos mate]

dont use a sprayer youll be getting it off the car in 12 months time,

there's something to be said for not treating them as long as they aren't in the shade or damp areas, i don't think i will bother anymore

[LordHaveMurci]

DoubleSix said:

Don't bother. It looks awful once weathered, adds expense, doesn't extend the life of the fence greatly and hides a naturally pleasing finish - wood!

Didn't touch ours for about 10yrs, then about 4yrs ago I decided to spruce them up. Off to B&Q to find all I could buy was paint, came with a free sprayer though.

Used the sprayer the 1st year, it looked st a year later so I used a brush, bloody hard work but it looked nice, for a while.

Won't bother again, in a year or two it will be back to it's natural finish & look no worse for it. Anybody want a paint sprayer?

[DoubleSix]

Well, to be fair that's a slightly different issue. Paint or penetrating stains etc will never take well to wood that has weathered and become pleasantly silvered.

If you insist on this pointless task you have to do it when the wood is new.

[steveo3002]

think im another one for not using the paint on treatments , doenst seem much more than coloured water and you will be doing every year

might try some of the spray on stuff that removes the green stuff see how that goes

[paul_y3k]

I'd quite happily leave my fence, but it goes green every year with damp.
The preservatives do nothing to help

[bogie]

DoubleSix said:

Don't bother. It looks awful once weathered, adds expense, doesn't extend the life of the fence greatly and hides a naturally pleasing finish - wood!

thats the logic I came to many years ago ...add up the price of the treatment stuff to do a proper job of it every year and it works out that every 7-10 years you could have bought new panels...which you likely need anyway.

So since then I just buy tannelised panels and leave them. Now 10 years on they dont look too bad.

If they are just a "bit green" then give them a blast with the jet washer when doing the paving once a year...thats what I do along the bottom of a few of ours where they are in the shade a lot over winter.

[Bigbox]

fantastic - timely thread! I'd come on here to enquire as to the best way to treat about 30 panels - will just give the ones that have gone green the once over with the jet wash!