Have photo of any timber you've used Creocote on?

JustAnotherSaver

The stuff I have is strange.

Yesterday I gave it another real good shake up in the glass coffee jar it's in.

Then I set to painting the piece I did the day before plus another piece (so i'd have one piece with 2 coats & one with just 1 & then i'd leave them for comparison over time - through the winter maybe).

The first night it went on super gloopy & black.

This time it was quite watery. It coated up black in parts but I don't know if that was just leftovers on the brush bristles. It was certainly more watery than the previous night.

That said, when I spoke to the warehouse manager, he had no idea how old the tub was anyway & it didn't have much left in there. Maybe a new tub would t have that problem.


Yeah yeah I'm overthinking. I'm also just saying too.

getmore4less

Since you can get the real stuff at decent price and you can do the fence before it is up.

I think you might as well do them and see how it goes. even consider 2 coats before erection.
Are you doing the neighbors side as well, will they be happy with the finish?

I suspect that an overwinter and a summer if you still don't like the finish you will be able to over coat using something with some color in it.

JustAnotherSaver

My thought process with the neighbours side is that it's my fence panel which I am paying for so I will paint it the colour I want.

My wife thinks we should either leave it or paint it a colour they like.

I don't want to leave it since I want SOME sort of coating on there, be it sucks back or creosote for protection. I don't want to wait on the maybe that the neighbours may one day get round to it.

Looking at the fence panels at the back that they bought & the panels are the other side which THEIR neighbours bought then it looks like they're not interested in painting any panels & just leave them as is - which I don't want.

Yes I won't see their side, but I want some extra level of protection on there anyway.

Gloomendoom

I use creocote a fair bit.

It starts off brown but mellows to a pleasant neutral grey.

JustAnotherSaver

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I use creocote a fair bit.

It starts off brown but mellows to a pleasant neutral grey.

Not black then (like this coal tar stuff i just sampled) :rotfl:

Funnily, it was only the other week my wife mentioned black panels - wondering what they'd look like.

getmore4less

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Not black then (like this coal tar stuff i just sampled) :rotfl:

Funnily, it was only the other week my wife mentioned black panels - wondering what they'd look like.

Got 10ltr black ducksback be interesting what it looks like when we decide where it is going.


We have done one fence/gate in garden shades willow(deal £15 9ltr) and it looks really good.

JustAnotherSaver

For the ducksback, am i the only one here who reads the Silver Copse colour as Silver Corpse?

Every single time i see it on the shelf that's what i read it as, then i have to double take.