pressure treated gates

ThisIsWeird

Rdwill's Barrettine does seem ideal - a preserver but with a finish too. 
I thought you wanted a black colour?

AliceW

ThisIsWeird said:

Rdwill's Barrettine does seem ideal - a preserver but with a finish too. 
I thought you wanted a black colour?

I mentioned that in another part of the garden I have a dark grey fence done in Ducksback (mainly because the neighbour put the fence up, offered to spray it the same colour as his side and I kept up the colour on my side after he moved house.)  The next door neighbour's double gates which are next to mine  are a matt dark grey (probably paint) but I hadn't thought about using a dark colour for my own gate because I'm not planning to use paint. (because of the likelihood of it eventually peeling.)

 The Barretine wood preserver in black  looks  semi transparent on the Barretine advert pictures showing the effect on smooth timber, which put me off a bit, which is why I'm thinking about using the light brown. If the black  was a more solid colour it would be good as it would match my black front door. 

AliceW

I've ordered some Barretine wood preserver. Because it comes in a metal container I'm guessing that I probably  shouldn't pour it into a plastic bucket (to apply iwith a brush) What sort of container will I need? 

Rdwill

I pour an inch into a used country life butter tub and use that. It's fine.

ThisIsWeird

AliceW said:

I've ordered some Barretine wood preserver. Because it comes in a metal container I'm guessing that I probably  shouldn't pour it into a plastic bucked (to apply iwith a brush) What sort of container will I need? 

Ooh, good point - it is likely to be spirit-based, so could affect some plastics.

I think you'll find that milk 'bottles' are polyethylene or polypropylene, and therefore pretty inert - they have that shiny, waxy, slippery finish, and I doubt would suffer.

Do the instructions say anything?

You could try pouring a wee test amount into a plastic container, leave it for a few minutes, and then pour it back out - 'inert' plastics will have the stain run off pretty cleanly, and the surface will be left completely smooth.

ThisIsWeird

Don't apply it if the timber is even remotely wet. Best to wait however long it takes - even next year.

Valerie2023

I've noticed the silver gate handle is getting quite rusty. Would Hammerite direct to rust metal paint sort the problem?

casper_gutman

Valerie2023 said:

I've noticed the silver gate handle is getting quite rusty. Would Hammerite direct to rust metal paint sort the problem?

You'll struggle to get paint into the moving parts of the mechanism (around the spindle where the latch rotates, for example) and it will quickly wear away or chip off where the latch hits the keep (the sloping part on the opposite gate). I'd be willing to bet these will be the first places to rust.

Personally I'd try to live with it, but even if I wanted the look of a black latch, I could get a new latch in black for half the cost of a can of black Hammerite, so I think I'd have difficulty justifying the effort of painting it.