Treating garden wood without changing colour?

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Just built a new gate / high wooden fence, and would like to treat it without changing its colour (currently that faint green that treated new wood has).

What is the best product?

Anyone?

decking oil?

Once oiled, you will be able to re-oil it later, but not to use other stains.

Thanks! Is there a particular reason / feature why it is sold for decking, but not for other wood structures? Just really confused about why there are no un-coloured wood treatments for fences / gates etc...

It's more expensive, and I find it more durable and lets the grain of the wood show through, which fence stains don't. I suppose it has to be more durable to resist the trampling of feet.

Not sure how many years it lasts, but better than fencestain (which is water based and leaves a pigmented waxy film on the surface that repels water, until it weathers away).

Some oils are coloured, but I think you want an untinted one, or possibly pine which is pale yellow like cooking oil (probably the same thing).

We use Barrettine wood preserver in clear on our fences and gate, keeps the natural colour of the wood. The prices vary considerably depending on where purchased and much cheaper to buy large bottle. You need to decant it into a container to use as it’s in a metal bottle. It’s very runny and easily drips but I would not use anything else.

I haven't used that but I see it's a solvent-based wood preserver containing insecticide and fungicide chemicals, so should be effective. You need great care to keep these chemicals off your skin, eyes, mouth, and clothing in contact with the skin. Once the wood has dried they are safe (unless you eat or burn it).

Second barrentine preserver I use that too. You can also overcoat with wood oil to extend the protection and help stop the wood going grey.

Any solvent based preserver will do the job. I think sadolin are well rated too.

The wood has already been treated with wood preserver - it was bought ready-treated. So I think we will go for the decking oil option. We have some left over pieces from the construction to test it on.