So I have been using Creoseal (creosote substitute but it still looks and smells like creosote) - goes on well enough with a 4" block brush - has anyone tried using a sponge on a rough wood fence - I am only a third though and it took me an entire day for the first lot. I am not keen on sprayers as the paint just stays in the air too long and rollers and paint pads don't seem to work very well.
I bought berry tine croecote substitute last year to put on all wood work around house , have rather a lot including decking which had 2 coats, it looked really good everywhere but a year later there is hardly any left on it as has gone back to the colour it was before I did all that hard work, it was expensive and a total waste of time so didn't even really last a year, am never using that again what a con and waste of money. The EU keep stopping everything that actually works , I'm sick of them! I really have not got the time to be doing woodwork every year and is costly, they probably made this rule so we all had to spend more money and work ten times harder! (Same with Henry hovers they only allowed a slower engine now because Poxy EU regulations ) I bet they have gardeners cleaners etc so they don't have to do jobs them selves fed up that I now again this year will have to do it all again another 2 weeks of my time ! I don't want to use anything that flakes off I want something like the old original creosote that lasted around ten hrs before re doing it all.. My advise I'd DO NOT BUY THE SUBSTITUTE BARRESTINE CREOCOTE AS IT IS A WAY BELOW and very poor STANDARD SUBSTITUTE! So unless you are prepared to apend all that money and redo it every year do not buy!
I bought berry tine croecote substitute last year to put on all wood work around house , have rather a lot including decking which had 2 coats, it looked really good everywhere but a year later there is hardly any left on it as has gone back to the colour it was before I did all that hard work, it was expensive and a total waste of time so didn't even really last a year, am never using that again what a con and waste of money. The EU keep stopping everything that actually works , I'm sick of them! I really have not got the time to be doing woodwork every year and is costly, they probably made this rule so we all had to spend more money and work ten times harder! (Same with Henry hovers they only allowed a slower engine now because Poxy EU regulations ) I bet they have gardeners cleaners etc so they don't have to do jobs them selves fed up that I now again this year will have to do it all again another 2 weeks of my time ! I don't want to use anything that flakes off I want something like the old original creosote that lasted around ten hrs before re doing it all.. My advise I'd DO NOT BUY THE SUBSTITUTE BARRESTINE CREOCOTE AS IT IS A WAY BELOW and very poor STANDARD SUBSTITUTE! So unless you are prepared to apend all that money and redo it every year do not buy!
Creosote has been banned in Australia on health grounds for years and years ... that'll be because of the EU then will it ?
And as for working ten times harder - if we go for Brexit and the British Workers lose the protection of the EU Working Time Directive you'll see who actually wants us to work even harder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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So I have been using Creoseal (creosote substitute but it still looks and smells like creosote) - goes on well enough with a 4" block brush - has anyone tried using a sponge on a rough wood fence - I am only a third though and it took me an entire day for the first lot. I am not keen on sprayers as the paint just stays in the air too long and rollers and paint pads don't seem to work very well.
I used to buy 'Clear Creosote' from B&Q but no one now seems to sell a 'Clear' Creosote. ??
I bought berry tine croecote substitute last year to put on all wood work around house , have rather a lot including decking which had 2 coats, it looked really good everywhere but a year later there is hardly any left on it as has gone back to the colour it was before I did all that hard work, it was expensive and a total waste of time so didn't even really last a year, am never using that again what a con and waste of money. The EU keep stopping everything that actually works , I'm sick of them! I really have not got the time to be doing woodwork every year and is costly, they probably made this rule so we all had to spend more money and work ten times harder! (Same with Henry hovers they only allowed a slower engine now because Poxy EU regulations ) I bet they have gardeners cleaners etc so they don't have to do jobs them selves
fed up that I now again this year will have to do it all again another 2 weeks of my time ! I don't want to use anything that flakes off I want something like the old original creosote that lasted around ten hrs before re doing it all.. My advise I'd DO NOT BUY THE SUBSTITUTE BARRESTINE CREOCOTE AS IT IS A WAY BELOW and very poor STANDARD SUBSTITUTE! So unless you are prepared to apend all that money and redo it every year do not buy!
that CREOCOTE is probably OK if you have tiny bit of wood to do, but if you have lots of wood forget it!,,
Can we take that as a Brexit vote, Kazzi?
OK, bring back creosote - cancer never really hurt anyone did it?
It wasn't banned by the EU but, like most things, by our own government. Most of these 'EU did this, EU did that' memes are myths or blatent lies.
There, I've said it.
I use Creocote, apply it with brush, protect ground with newspapers and I buy it here:
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Painting+&+Decorating/d150/Exterior+Wood+Care/sd3176/Creocote+Shed+&+Fence+Treatment+4L/p14250
Creosote has been banned in Australia on health grounds for years and years ... that'll be because of the EU then will it ?
And as for working ten times harder - if we go for Brexit and the British Workers lose the protection of the EU Working Time Directive you'll see who actually wants us to work even harder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.