re staining a garden fence another colour

[poppaliki]

Hi
I would like to re stain my green fance with a dark brown stain, I have tried applying creosote and the green colour is showing through? and I am wondering that the green stain is an oil based stain? do i need to put a primer on first then re stain dark mbrown?
regards
jo

[Bettypat]

Hi Jo,

Try Cuprinol or Fencerite. Most fence paints are water based but you can mix some linseed oil into them which makes them thicker. I changed my brown fence to green in this way without a problem. The reason I did this was that I started to paint it brown again and my neighbour complained that the brown was seeping through on to her green, so just to oblige I changed to green. Hope this helps.