garden fencing

[jenellcas123]

I have a garden fence right around my garden which is a horrible brown, want to paint it green, have tried a few paints without much success , at the moment am using ronseal but it doesn't seem to be covering
all these fence paints are water based, is there some thing else I could use

[Figi]

Why not grow plants against it for natural green?

[jenellcas123]

I really wish I could grow plants against my fence
but the ground is so bad that nothing grows
it's heavy clay with hardly any drainage, have spend pounds
buying plants, soil improvers, compost etc
virginia creeper, clematus, roses, honeysuckle even
a mallow plant, all died ,so now i am putting slate chippings and painting the fence?

[WendyS]

You may be having problems because the fence was originally coated with brown creosote which is oil based. Our neighbour has just erected a new shared fence and covered his side with creosote or a creosote substitute which has leached through to our side. . As our two other fences are coated green we wanted to coat our side of the new fence to match but apparently most treatments will not adhere to anything with creosote until it has weathered for 8 - 10 years. We have just tried Cuprinol Trade Green which is oil based which we had to get from a builders merchants because the average B & Q type store doesn't seem to stock it. It's also very expensive (�38 for two large cans). It's not the usual dark green. On our fence it has come out as a bright Sherwood Forest Green and where the brown creosote has seeped through the fence looks streaky brown rather than green, so the whole effect is rather unsatisfactory. If you go to the Cuprinol website they have a Help Section who may be able to advise you. I've just experimented by getting sample tins of two of their Garden Shades paints (Iwillow & sage green) & painted over small areas to check whether they would adhere to the wood and they did but both shades were too light. They also do a dark green, which may be suitable but if you brown fence is creosoted, I fear you may have to wait some years for it to weather first. Cuprinol unhelpfully won't let you order mini sample tins from them direct. We had to get B & Q to order them for us. Hope you eventually find something which will work for you.

[jenellcas123]

wendyS
thanks for your answer, you would think therewould be something wouldn't you
for the normal person, without going through the trade
surely people change the colour from time to time
any way thanks,it's given me a lot to think about