Hi All

I had a shed built in my garden about six months ago and now want to
paint it. Anyone have any recommendations as to what is the best to
use. I am a bit confused with timbercare, paints and stains?

Kind regards
Coco

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Hi All

I had a shed built in my garden about six months ago and now want to
paint it. Anyone have any recommendations as to what is the best to
use. I am a bit confused with timbercare, paints and stains?

Kind regards
Coco

For wood I would always go for a product that soaks in rather than a
conventional paint which forms a skin as the first needs no preparation
when it requires another coat in the future - hate painting me and never
do the preparation properly, result it always needs doing more often!
There are loads of products now in a range of colours that are basically
coloured wood preservers, some by the look of the TV ads are sprayable
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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Hi All

I had a shed built in my garden about six months ago and now want to
paint it. Anyone have any recommendations as to what is the best to
use. I am a bit confused with timbercare, paints and stains?

Kind regards
Coco

Don't go for paint or a surface stain, it will weather and the shed will
look awful. You can see lots of fences stained red (cedar) which was once
a popular colour but now deeply unfashionable.
Go for a stain that soaks in and doesn't leave a surface coat.
Dont be tempted to use a spray - there is too much detail around the window
and doors of a shed; and also you will get the spray over everything else
around the shed - plants will be killed and other objects ruined.

You need to decide WHY you need to paint the shed? Don't you like the
colour of wood? If you don't like aged grey wood then treat the shed with
a UV filter which will preserve the natural wood colour. Sikkens natural
will do this.

Davy

Davy formulated on Thursday :
Charlie Pridham wrote in
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In article 3e1cbe8e-1e07-4133-ad11-
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says...
Hi All

I had a shed built in my garden about six months ago and now want to
paint it. Anyone have any recommendations as to what is the best to
use. I am a bit confused with timbercare, paints and stains?

Kind regards
Coco

Don't go for paint or a surface stain, it will weather and the shed will
look awful. You can see lots of fences stained red (cedar) which was once
a popular colour but now deeply unfashionable.
Go for a stain that soaks in and doesn't leave a surface coat.
Dont be tempted to use a spray - there is too much detail around the window
and doors of a shed; and also you will get the spray over everything else
around the shed - plants will be killed and other objects ruined.

You need to decide WHY you need to paint the shed? Don't you like the
colour of wood? If you don't like aged grey wood then treat the shed with
a UV filter which will preserve the natural wood colour. Sikkens natural
will do this.

Davy

i like a green shed