Tanalised timber - colour?

Bromley86

What colour should tanalised timber fence panels be straight from the
supplier? They're the feather edged variety, not lap.

A neighbour had some installed and they're a faded orange. I was
pretty sure that tanalised (Tanalith E) stuff is green, which seems to
be confirmed by the manufacturers:
http://www.archchemicals.com/Fed/WOOD/Docs/TAN-E_TECH_DS_OCT_02.pdf

So I was a bit surprised when my tanaliased panels arrived and they're
that faded orange colour too. Should they be green?

rdpro

hmmm.. mine was tanalised in the sales blurb too, and it's also a pale orange - be interested to know more

Bromley86

Thanks rdpro. I think I've got the answer. Do the closeboard panels here look a bit like your panels, colour-wise?
http://fatcollective.org/conwyfencing/products.html

If so, then that's because they've used an additive "tanatone". Per the manufacturers:

TANATONE pressure treated timber has been impregnated with Tanalith® E preservative containing a built-in brown colour

I'm no good with colour palletes, but maybe brown + green --> orange .

rdpro

This is mine!

Bromley86

Ah, that'll be it then. Either that or we've both been had .

rdpro

I've already oversprayed mine with cuprinol timber treatment - the clear one, because I like the cheap jake orange finish

woodbutcher_2

You can get brown tanalised pressure treated timber,my local Howarth timber do it but a lot of fence panels are just dipped in a tank of the orange stuff.I suspect that is what you have.

Bromley86

Oh well, at that price I wouldn't be surprised.

TimBuckTeeth

I bought some treated wood planks (I believe they were tannalised) from B&Q a while ago, when first bought they were a greenish colour and still a bit damp, after being left outside for a few months in the sun they have turned an orange colour. So as well as different types of treatment it depends if it has been freshly treated or weathered during storage for a while.

Bromley86

Or, extrapolating from other posts I've read, that could be a dipped product that was stained green to disguise it.

Bromley86

BTW, as a follow-up, there was a problem with the size so they're having to redeliver. I spoke to them about the colour and they are tanalised but then dipped at source for purely for aesthetic reasons.

The new ones are going to be the plain green tanalised ones. They really have been excellent on the customer services front, so I don't think that they're !!!!!!!!ting me. I will have to cut a couple of the panels to fit, so it will be apparent if they are!