Cuprinol garden shades

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Has anyone used this to paint their fence? We have a horrible drab brown fence around our garden and quite fancied a bit of colour, but we are wondering if it will drip/dribble down onto the neighbours side, which might p them off a bit. Also did you use a brush or sprayer to apply? Thanks!

no, but generally with fence stains, you can put dark over light, but light over dark will still be dark.

You can blast the old stain off with a pressure washer.

Spray will go onto your house, your paving, your car, your washing, and your neighbours. It will also gush through to the other side.

Sometimes if you use a brush, very carefully, not much will drip through PROVIDED that the overlap is to your side.

If the fence belongs to your neighbour you are not entitled to do anything without their permission. Lots of people like dark brown.

I have just painted my dark brown shed bright pink using this it covered really well, three coats and it is totally bright pink and looks great no hint of brown.

It is very runny though I think it would run through fences so much as I would love to do it I wouldn't risk it.

I have just painted our dark poo brown shed and fence cuprinol willow and it looks lovely - 2 coats and minimal dripping through to next door !

I have covered a dark brown stained wood raised bed with shades Antique cream. It took 3 coats and it's now very cream .

sounds like it works then!

It's quite waxy/rubbery. It sort of sits on the wood rather than soaking in. I had some left over so painted a terracota pot. It didn't sink into the clay at all and over time the paint layer just lifted and peeled off.

Strange stuff.

DS and I painted our shed which was grey (as in original colour had washed out rather than painted grey!) We did it Arabian sand by mistake - I ordered the wrong colour out of the samples and didn't realise till it was too late -but it looks much better! It took about 4 coats with a brush.

I painted our shed with Willow too. I used a brush, think it took two coats. I found it really good to use, and it looks fabby!

Hi, thanks - mixed opinions then! Our shed is already done with it (previous owners) and it looks good but it sounds like it can drip. The fence isn't ours and we have never actually spoken to the people the other side (bottom of our garden so live on the next street) but I might pop round and ask if they would mind, the bit of garden their side is their veg patch rather than their actual garden if you see what I mean. If not we might just put some trellis up (on it's own posts rather than attached to their fence) and grow lots of climbing things). Thanks all.

Please don't do what my neighbour did...

Which was that he painted his side of MY new fence with a spray painter. It ran through the fence leaving drips all over my side of MY fence. The dark coloured spray also went over my new sandy coloured patio and over my greenhouse to the extent some panes were totally obscured.

Grrrr, I wouldn't mind so much but he didn't even help me scrape the paint of the greenhouse.

powerwasher will get it off next time.