Cuprinol CUPDBBL5L 5 Litre 5 Year Ducks Back - Autumn Black

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For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. Available in four different colours, and each one looking fantastic, a 5-litre can should give you enough paint for about five 6x5ft fence panels if you’re giving them a double coating, and I recommend that you do, especially if you want the paint to last for years to come. I know the advertising claims you can do 10 panels of that size, but that would be with a single coat and I do think bare timber (or timber previously a different colour) needs two, take a look at a couple of examples here from earlier today covering new timber (in the video) and an old gate: After the extensive testing of Cuprinol, Ronseal, and Creocote I learned a few things that will save you a total melt down. Sound dramatic? Take a look at this disaster 😀 Creocote is incredible on rough timber but a total fail on smooth timber There is no need to have multiple products to make your metal fence look as good as new, as this one does it all, and can act as a primer, undercoat, and topcoat, and the results are outstanding, leaving you with a wonderful shiny, gloss finish.

However, there were moments at first when I was a bit worried, as Johnstone’s paints look quite a different shade when you first apply them to when they are fully dried. This is true for most fence paints, but I’ve noticed that this is particularly true with Johnstone’s products, so please don’t be alarmed at first and give it time to dry. You’ll be happy in the end, trust me. What makes the Cuprinol and Ronseal sensible though, is the waxy pigment. Wax is also superb about water repellant. Fence paint modern aesthetics: Cuprinol Silver Copse vs Ronseal Fence Life Plus Charcoal GreyOnce set it looked absolutely superb – after using my fences to test various colours I will be settling on this – don’t panic until it’s set, below is the result you’ll get from two coats with the Wagner sprayer: Don’t worry – I do realise one of the Ronseals is one coat but I want it to be a completely fair test and I have recorded the results after the first coat of fence paint and after the second coat too so you can judge for yourself if it needs an extra coat 🙂

So this means with four different fence paints on test, and with sprayer used as a comparable as well. And then we are testing old and new panels. I am TESTING 8 PANELS total!! How glad to have the Wagner fence sprayer 😀 What paints did I test and why: Cuprinol vs Ronseal One Coat vs Ronseal Life Plus vs Creocote Now this comparison is far more interesting than the split of the modern as these are wildly different. I much much prefer Creocote and how it drags out the grain and natural timber qualities. This of course is a personal preference. One sprayed on layer of the Ronseal one coat looks full and vibrant What else I tested I’m not going to go through Creocote entirely as I covered it in the shed paint section as well as the fence paint testing here. As you can see from the pictures, the colour of the wood is enhanced beautifully, and water really beads and drips off lovely. What is more, from testing I found it goes much further than Cuprinol and Ronseals two different paints. Here’s a look at the fence panels before and after painting:

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As you can see the kids didn’t quite finish painting the fence 😀 But what really surprised me was just how well one coat of Charcoal grey actually covered this fence. I mean it definitely has a slightly different darker look to a panel freshly painted with no dark colours behind it, but honestly, that’s only one coat, it’ll become far more grey on a second and third (which I will get around to at some point). Testing Cuprinol fence paint covering up a dark brown with one coat The second coat looked much fuller and far happier but it changes completely once dried, let’s have a look at directly after I’ve laid on the second coat first: