. We are revamping the school garden and the summer house is looking very dowdy so it was decided to colour it. Now I personally am not a great lover of this trend of coloured fences coloured sheds in the garden preferring natural wood, however I duly painted the summer house a Cuprinol shades.
We choose cuprinolgarden shades to colour the summerhouse. Cuprinol shades is formulated for use on exterior wood rough sawn or smooth planed, can be used on sheds trellises garden benches, planters. This treatment is NOT suitable for decking
It can be applied to wood that has been previously pressure treated, or previously treated with creosote
Cuprinol shades are available in 125ml, 1 litre, 2.5 litre, and 5 litre cans. There are a variety of colour shades to choose from barley wood, a blue. Black ash, forget me not, holly, iris, lavender, party jasmine, sage, sea grass, Silver birch, sunflower, terracotta, and willow. For school a forget-me- not and a sage was chosen " those choosing the colour thought a multi coloured shed would be nice door one colour walls another"
We bought a .litre of each it is suggest by cuprinol that a 5 litre tin is sufficient for smooth planed wood an area of 50m squared or if it is rough wood it will cover 14-24 m squared with 2 coats of shades
We bought ours at b&q not sure how much as someone else got it but online it costs £9.oo for a litre athttp://gardens.perfectbuy.co.uk I found 2 ½ litre cans for £16.79 at htmlhttp://www.gloriousgardens.org/
We have a meeting after school on Wednesdays and it was a lovely sunny day so clothed in our painting clothes our classroom staff set to work. First we cleaned the sheds by giving them a stiff brush over
I opened the tin of forget-me knot shades I was using it was a lovely sky/ egg forget me knot blue. I gave it a good stir. It was very runny I stirred with a clean stick and then dipped my paintbrush in. Yes it was runny but stayed on the brush. I painted it on to the side wall of the shed. It seemed to be covering well. I was very easy to apply. I had few if any drips. As I painted this wood treatment on it did get absorbed by the wood.
There was little or no smell to this product,
It was simple and so easy to apply it did not take very long ¼ hour to complete the side wall I was painting someone else was painting the front. I went and painted another side of the shed. Then it was time for me to go home. I quickly inspected my work. It was fair. The Cuprinol garden shades was beginning to dry I thought it would probably dry before nightfall say on the tin takes 1 hr to dry . I could see that I would probably have to put another coating on as the wood we were painting was very absorbent. I walked away from the shed and looked back. I was satisfied with what I saw; it was not garish looked well. A fair covering would look better with another coat another day.
I took the brush in and washed it in water the colour came out fairly easily. My hands were quite blue so I washed them the stain came of very easy. Next morning when we got into school we inspected our work. It was good the summer house looked attractive .It would need another coat sometime but would do for now. We took the children outside and they seemed to like the newly coloured play /summer house. S o if you want to paint a shed, your summerhouse or your fence, then yes I would recommend this.
Recommend yes
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Like you, I was never a fan of this coloured creosote - that was until I painted my fence and shed green, I find it actually blends in with the shrubbery and makes the fence look much less obvious. Jane x
MissTopaz 18.05.2006 15:57
ooh, looks good stuff! Great review x
lipsalve 15.05.2006 21:06
I'm glad the blue came off your hands or you would've looked like a Smurf for a while! Jo x
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