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By Pipers

West Midlands, United Kingdom Gb

We want to paint the wooden garden fence bright colours does anybody know where we can get the paint from it is sensory garden


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B & Q or similar should have.

5 Nov, 2011

 

If it's for a charity or community garden you may be able to source recycled paint via your local council's recycling bank or depot. Why not try contacting the recycling dept & see what they say?

5 Nov, 2011

 

Thanx for that have tried B&Q no good they suggested we contact local nursery but will try council first .

5 Nov, 2011

 

Are you looking for exterior woodstain and preservative, or wanting to actually paint the fence? Because if you want to paint it, any exterior gloss paint will do - if you want a particular colour, just use one of those places which mixes colours for you. That way, you can have any colour you like, except you'd have to pay for it. I think even B & Q has a paint mixing machine, doesn't it?

5 Nov, 2011

 

If B&Q directed you to a nursery then I suspect that you are asking for a timber preservative rather than a paint. As far as I know these just come in shades of green and brown, nothing bright.
If you are indeed proposing to use paint then gloss from B&Q should suffice but you will have to spend a lot of time preparing and priming the timber so that the paint does not flake off in a short space of time.

5 Nov, 2011

 

I need to correct the above response immediatly. I have just done a quick web search and found Protek wood preservatives. Look at the following web page:
http://www.shedstore.co.uk/garden-wood-preservatives
Shedstore will sell it to you for £17.95 per litre or, if you wish, you can have five litres for £20.95! The web colour chart shows some evry bright colours.

5 Nov, 2011

 

you could get a big tub of cheap white waterproof paint and then buy the primery colours in tester sizes then you can actualy make every possible colour there is . also you can get a paint mixer for a drill in said b and q . my latvian nieghbers have done it with just emulsion i do believe . i would however weight for the summer when you have more chance of continual dry weather . i know ive used white emulsion on my concrete seat with sand mixed in it and it was fine .

5 Nov, 2011

 

I suspect that, if B&Q said no, you're asking for a freebie as I bought my bright blue wood preservative there.

5 Nov, 2011

 

Hello Pipers...welcome to GoY. I am interested about your sensory garden.. ..

I think B&Q have said they will not donate paint or plants to you...

What do you need.

5 Nov, 2011

 

Thanks for all the replies I have found some paint called shades from Cuprinol we r going to send for some tester paints to see what they r like.

9 Nov, 2011

 

your more than welcome

9 Nov, 2011

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