Fence paint

IM

Morning all - could do with a bit of advice...
Replaced a number of rotten fence panels over the weekend, and used Cuprinol Garden Shades paint in a lovely light blue.
The panels were like a sponge, soaking up the paint, but eventually I got them covered and installed - and it was high-fives all round, and wasn't I a good husband...
Now however, yellow is leeching through and all Brownie points are being rescinded... 
I suspect I've gone at this in typical bull-in-a-china-shop/got-to-get-it-done-this-weekend style, and should have thought it through. Maybe even read the instructions 
To be fair, the instructions on the website (which is where I chose the paint) just says "All surfaces should be clean and dry. If it has been previously coated, loose, flaking paint should be stripped back to bare wood" - it's only on the tin that it mentions a primer/sealer may be required on raw wood.
I don't know if the shear amount of rain we've had over the past couple of days has washed the paint off, before it's had a chance to cure fully - but either way, I need suggestions to fix it?
Should I just wait for a few consecutive sunny days to let the fence dry fully, before whacking on more of the paint?
Or do I need to put a retrospective sealer of some sort on first?
All input gratefully received 

Slinky

We found you get a better result with 2 coats. The second coat will use much less paint than the first. We didn't rush to paint bare wood either, we left our new fence to weather a bit before painting it for the first time.

ElephantBoy57

I find if you don't use primer, the paint soaks into the wood, making the wood impervious to water, which is good.

But you would need more than one coat to make it appear all one shade.

IM

The panels must have had 7 or 8 coats....
I just kept going until I got a solid colour...

Le_Kirk

When you write 7 to 8 coats, did you let each coat dry before applying the next?  If not, it is the same coat.  Is the paint suitable for rough sawn timber?

IM

Le_Kirk said:

When you write 7 to 8 coats, did you let each coat dry before applying the next?  If not, it is the same coat.  Is the paint suitable for rough sawn timber?

I did 5 panels, in rotation, and on a hot sunny day - so by the time I'd done panel #5 the previous coat on panel #1 was dry.
The product spec (there's a link on my original post) makes reference to coverage for rough-sawn timber - and the can has images of painted fences.

Le_Kirk

Should have been OK then, I do exactly the same, I have also used the same (well very similar) colour of garden shades, not on a fence but on a rough-sawn shed (well summerhouse, as Mrs Le_Kirk likes to call it) and two coats was fine.

IM

Hopefully this monsoon will finish some day soon, and we'll get a run of dry weather.
Once the panels are dried out, I'll try another coat and see what happens - crossing fingers that last weekend's work at least amounts to a (very expensive) undercoat, and it won't take too much paint to get something that covers and lasts.

Aylesbury_Duck

Personally I'd leave it. Even if you get a perfect, solid finish now, after a couple of seasons weathering it will look patchy and lightly stained anyway. 

neilmcl

I've never found Cuprinol Garden Shades to be much good, particularly for the reasons you've shown. Much prefer Cuprinol Ducksback, but even that will need at least a couple of coats. Has the fence panels been creosoted in the past, it could be that's what's coming through preventing the paint from properly adhering to the panel.

You probably should've used a stain block first, such as Zinsser BIN but that can be expensive.

Slinky

neilmcl said:

I've never found Cuprinol Garden Shades to be much good, particularly for the reasons you've shown. Much prefer Cuprinol Ducksback, but even that will need at least a couple of coats. Has the fence panels been creosoted in the past, it could be that's what's coming through preventing the paint from properly adhering to the panel.

You probably should've used a stain block first, such as Zinsser BIN but that can be expensive.

We used Cuprinol Muted Grey on a newish fence we'd let weather for several months, 2 coats and it looked great. It still looked good a couple of years later when we sold. We've since moved house and repainted 2 very old fences the same colour and it worked really well with 2 coats.  The colour seems popular as next door have done theirs the same (repainting over very old brown stain), and I have a feeling next door but one have also painted theirs the same, given the odd bit I can see on the recently added trellis.