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

JustAnotherSaver

I'm toying between the Cuprinol Ducksback & Creocote.

Ducksback i can obviously have a range of colours, but it's water based & i'm wondering if Creocote would be better since it's oil based .......... just that it's brown.

I've also got a bit to do & i don't think you can spray Ducksback but i read that you can with Creocote. I could go with a brush approach, it isn't a must that it's spray but it would obviously help.

Had a look in B&Q yesterday & saw they had dark brown & light brown shades.


Any fence panels, gates & the like that i'll be painting up will be that tanalised wood which has that green tinge (for a while) so if you've painted that sort of wood then even better.


Hopefully there's some of you on here who has used this stuff & has photos.
Also please say if you applied it over another colour or whether it was direct to bare wood, as i imagine it'll turn out a bit different if you're putting it over say Red Cedar or some green colour or whatever.

Thanks.

Davesnave

Sorry, I do use Creocote, but I also use creosote as well, and I don't care which colour it is either, so my results aren't much use!

I put it on/in the chicken sheds as extra protection against red mite, and to stop the growth of moulds, mosses etc.

I can tell you that after a year or so both fade through the bleaching action of the sun, and by the time 2 years is up, you'd never know they'd been done.

JustAnotherSaver

Davesnave wrote: »

Sorry, I do use Creocote, but I also use creosote as well, and I don't care which colour it is either, so my results aren't much use!

Yes & no.

They may be of no use to you since you don't care, but visual results are actually of use to me. I understand the benefits Creocote has but also I want to be happy with how it looks too. If i am then that's great & we'll go for it, but if not then i'd end up going with the Ducksback instead even though it may not be as good.

I'd heard the Creocote needed (or was best) to be applied annually whereas the Ducksback states 5 years protection. Whether it actually does give 5 years protection is another matter. Probably 5 years under certain conditions which no normal garden would meet so in reality about 2 years.

cyclonebri1

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Yes & no.

They may be of no use to you since you don't care, but visual results are actually of use to me. I understand the benefits Creocote has but also I want to be happy with how it looks too. If i am then that's great & we'll go for it, but if not then i'd end up going with the Ducksback instead even though it may not be as good.

I'd heard the Creocote needed (or was best) to be applied annually whereas the Ducksback states 5 years protection. Whether it actually does give 5 years protection is another matter. Probably 5 years under certain conditions which no normal garden would meet so in reality about 2 years.

This 1 is very tricky, google the diff twix creoc and creos and tell me the difference.

Creosote is banned for carcinogenic reasons, creocote claims it's harmless? :A:A:A:A:A


GIVEN CRECOTE IS SPIRIT BASED AND IS AN ACTUAL PRESERVATIVE UNLIKE THE USELESS FENCE PAINTS WE HAVE BEEN WEANED ONTO i SAY cREOCOTE UNLESS SOME SCIENTIST HERE SAYS DON'T USE IT


PS, PLEASE FORGIVE MY CROSSED CAPITALS

JustAnotherSaver

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

This 1 is very tricky, google the diff twix creoc and creos and tell me the difference.

Creosote is banned for carcinogenic reasons, creocote claims it's harmless? :A:A:A:A:A


GIVEN CRECOTE IS SPIRIT BASED AND IS AN ACTUAL PRESERVATIVE UNLIKE THE USELESS FENCE PAINTS WE HAVE BEEN WEANED ONTO i SAY cREOCOTE UNLESS SOME SCIENTIST HERE SAYS DON'T USE IT


PS, PLEASE FORGIVE MY CROSSED CAPITALS

Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Creocote was a better preservative than some/all of these fence paints. It'd certainly make sense to me.

Question is whether i like the look of it or not.

It's one thing it being protected with some good product, but if every time you look out the window & think - i wish i'd gone with one of those fence products that may not protect as good but looked much better, then .....!

I googled Creocote but you get all manner of images & you don't know what was underneath the Creocote to begin with - a different colour maybe, bare wood, whether it's tanalised or not, whether that makes a difference to the colour finish or not.


Then you'll get the classic ........ "you're overcomplicating things" or the "you're thinking about it too much", to which i say - no, not at all. I want to know what it looks like so i can decide whether i like it or not & i don't fancy buying some, applying it & deciding i don't like it.

My wife does enough of these expensive experiments without me joining her at it :rotfl:

cyclonebri1

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Creocote was a better preservative than some/all of these fence paints. It'd certainly make sense to me.

Question is whether i like the look of it or not.

It's one thing it being protected with some good product, but if every time you look out the window & think - i wish i'd gone with one of those fence products that may not protect as good but looked much better, then .....!

I googled Creocote but you get all manner of images & you don't know what was underneath the Creocote to begin with - a different colour maybe, bare wood, whether it's tanalised or not, whether that makes a difference to the colour finish or not.


Then you'll get the classic ........ "you're overcomplicating things" or the "you're thinking about it too much", to which i say - no, not at all. I want to know what it looks like so i can decide whether i like it or not & i don't fancy buying some, applying it & deciding i don't like it.

My wife does enough of these expensive experiments without me joining her at it :rotfl:

My daughter bought a duck house, (no, she's not an MP).

Treated with creocote that I happened to have in the shed. Overpainted with sage coloured "fence paint", looks great and will offer some protection :T:T

iammumtoone

Is there a used paint sale near yourself. They have one at our local [STRIKE]tip[/STRIKE] recycling centre. They sell all the old pots of paint etc that people take really cheap (money goes to charity) you might be able to pick up some there to try first.

CathA

If it's any help we painted our shed (pre-treated wood) with Ronseal Harvest Gold. The following year we painted it with Ducksback Autumn Gold, very similar colour but nicer. We only painted it as we were going to put two coats on originally but we didn't get time. The Ducksback isn't being painted on the shed again this year as it looks fine and hasn't faded, tho it doesn't get direct sun.
We've just put up a load of pre-treated fence panels and painted them with DB Autumn Gold. Our old fence panels had come pre-stained a similar colour, and they had faded where the sun gets on them. We're probably going to do them again next year to keep on top of it, as where it had faded on the old fence, it took a couple of coats to get the colour back. Hope this helps.

Davesnave

I alternate chicken housing and land on a yearly cycle. This is the chicken shed I'm using at present:


Sadly, the sun was quite low, so it's not a great picture. I would guess thatI painted the outside, probably with dark Creocote, about 15months ago.

JustAnotherSaver

Nice.

Little off topic but I remember when we used to keep chickens when i was a kid. I remember having to go in there & get the eggs. Our hut wasn't as big as that though. Nice build

Davesnave

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Nice.

Little off topic but I remember when we used to keep chickens when i was a kid. I remember having to go in there & get the eggs. Our hut wasn't as big as that though. Nice build

That one is 12' x 7' I think. The other one is similar.

Most of the modifications to the sheds were done by the shed co, but I kitted them out inside with movable nest boxes and perches, so we only need one set for both. Whenever one shed is being a chicken house, the other one is being a shed.