We've recently moved onto a house with a large area of decking taking over a big section of the garden.
It's all linked together but in 3 different sections/tiers. It's a north facing garden. Its all rather shabby and long term will need taking out and replacing with something but for now we are on a bit of a tight budget having just moved and would like to preserve it the best we can for at least this summer but hopefully next year too whilst we save.
It had been painted the darkest brown but was peeling and patchy. It was slippy and looked awful before. We have jet washed away the algae (was like an icerink) and slime and most of what was left of the old paint. We have also used a decking cleaner. Its looking quite clean and bare now. The wood looks fairly dry and rather absorbant now though.
We have tried some testers and bought some Cuprinol Decking Paint/treatment in a fairly dark colour to hopefully give an even coverage.
My questions are do we just whack the deck paint on? Or does it need a primer first? If so can anyone recommend a decking primer?
I've seen decking oil in the shops but think this must be for new or previously unpainted decking? Or do I need to oil them before painting?
Am totally clueless. There's no way we can have our decking looking 'natural' it's had a hard life by the looks of it but we want to do what we can to make it last long enough whilst we save for its replacement in a year or 2 and have it looking fairly decent over the summer.
Decking experts please share your advice.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.
Property/DIY
Decking.
9 replies
MyLlamasGoneBananas · 10/04/2016 07:40
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.