Kitchen Garden Forum

Hi,

Has anybody any experience with fence paint sprayers.

We have just had 29 new bright orange pannels in our garden, and they are a terrible colour to look at.

If we paint them by hand it is going to take ages, so are the fence sprayers any use or is it just good advertising.

Thanks

Tracie

ive in the past used a proper compressor and spray gun on fence panels, its quicker than a brush. in my opinion the current heavily advertised cordless sprayer used with a paint that lasts 5 years means the battery will be totally useless when you try and use it again in 5 years time. you may aswell use it the once and throw it away.
if you go with the brush get a wide one, thats probably the cheapest way of speeding up the job.

I've got a paint sprayer that I attach to my husband's (semi) portable compressor and it's excellent.

coming from a painter/decorator ,in my experience unless you have a compressor and spray gun laying about ,leave the cheap sprayers on the shelf in your local diy store they are shy of useless

I tend to agree that the pump up ones are useless, as I have a B & Q own make, they are no different from the cuprinol or ronseal make, they do get the paint on the panel but the stain is dearer than normal treatments, so when I got mine I cheated and watered down (in increments till I got the best consistency) Wickes own water based treatment.

Also the spray blows about a bit so you need good cover / masking, having said that if you can comply with all of the above and get a good waterbased product to fill the gun it might be ok, be armed with a thick wide brush to work in the drips etc.

I am not sure how the gun would fare with creosote replacement but that might be worth a try also.

Compo

Hi Compo,

"I am not sure how the gun would fare with creosote replacement but that might be worth a try also."

Not a good idea at all. Used as you are suggesting Creosote would be quite dangerous.
JB.

We did the same. Just connect it to a compressor and you can work nice and fast right away. Have fun!

I am not talking about creosote JB but the new safer replacement.

Do read properly old boy

Compo

Hi Compo,
I read the word replacement as replacing the water based spray with Creosote. I feel you should be more explicit old boy.
JB.

A work colleague once told a tale of spraying his garden fence...the fence board was only thin with knot holes etc...he ended up buying next door a new white patio furniture set as a result.

Clive.