Fence treatment recommendations please ?

[BBH]

Need to treat my post n rail this year and want something that will protect the wood but also colour it a dark oak that lasts, not something that evaporates three months after putting it on.

Many thanks

 

[Maesfen]

You can't beat creosote; ask your fencing contractor/timber yard to get you some of the proper stuff it's far better than anything new fangled. Just always wear sleeves and gloves when you use it that you can either bear to throw away or keep just for that as they will pong!

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

If you cant get creosote then go for Osmo country colour. you will faint at the price of a tin but keep going: it has many times more actual paint pigment per litre than the coloured water you are paying for from the DIY stores. Do one coat of CC and it will actually be, and stay, the colour you painted. Max two coats if you want really really thick solid colour. Also the paint isnt made with nasty VOC chemicals but with linseed oil so it stretches and flexes in extreme heat/cold so is much less likely to flake off after a while despite the thick paint colour, and also soaks in to protect the wood.

Lets just say I did our stables in the cairngorms in their forest green and a fence in normal stuff, and the fence you cant even tell was ever stained and the stables are still dark green 3 years later.....