The Preservation Treatments For Your Garden Shed
Today the majority of garden sheds today will need to be taken care of regularly to last unless they have been made using cedar or pressure treated wood. Although most sheds for the garden will have a wood based primer coating on them this generally isn’t enough to protect them from the elements and ensure that they last for many years to come. In this article we look at the types of garden shed treatments and why needed.
So what reason is there for you regularly treating a garden shed after it has been built? The main reason to treat a garden shed using treatments such as those we mention below is to length the life span of it. The problem with the wood used in most garden sheds today unless it is cedar or pressure treated is it is not very resilient and changes in the climate causing it to deteriorate very quickly. But applying the right sorts of garden shed treatments provides protection from the elements and prevents them from getting into the wood and causing it to become damaged.
Above we have explained the importance of treating garden sheds, now let us look at some of the types of treatments that one should consider using for protecting yours.
Treatment 1 ” Creosote Substitute
There are several products on the market today that you can use that are known as this form of treatment such as Creotreat or Creotech. Both of them will provide more than enough protection to your shed but are far better if you mix 5 parts of this product to 1 part clean engine oil. Although they are a good wood preservative the engine oil helps to prevent the wood from cracking or becoming brittle and adds an extra water proof layer to the wood.
This treatment is also easy to apply but you will need a special sprayer to do so. Although this is the cheapest way of increasing how long your garden shed lasts the colour range is limited, in fact the only colour you can spray your shed with this is brown.
Treatment 2 ” Wood Preservative
This particular treatment can either be used as the main treatment or to act as a base coat prior to the garden shed being painted. If you are going to use this as the base coat before painting make sure that it is one over which paint can be applied because if you don’t then when you do paint the shed it will just slide off the woods surface. Also you should use a spirit rather than a wood based preservative as this will help to ensure more of it is soaked into the wood providing high levels of protection for the shed from the elements.
Treatment 3 ” Combined Preservative, Colour and Waterproof Agent
Of all the garden shed treatments available today these ones are proving the most popular and again as with treatment 2 above you should go for a spirit rather than water based one. Also if the wood of your shed has been planed then make sure that the product you are using is suitable for use on such ones. If you dont then as time passes you will discover that the protective coating you have applied will begin to peel and leave the underlying wood exposed to the elements. The great advantage to be had from using this treatment is that you have a wide range of colours to select from and is very quick and simple to apply.
my shed was treated with a timber preservative
3 years ago. I now want to paint it a pale blue
what kind of paint should I use?