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mudcow007
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PostPosted: 15:24 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Creocote? Reply with quote

Anyone ever used this stuff?

It smells a bit like creosote, but is noway near the same.

I need to redo the fence every year with it. its not the most expensive stuff in the world but still....

a few people have said to mix it with old engine oil to make it protect better. Wouldn't this make it stink when it heats up in the sun etc?
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've used it on my shed, mixed it 60:40 (engine oil) and was surprised how nice it looked. Smells good too. Thumbs Up

Could probably do with another coat sometime this summer.
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

proper creosote had tar and other not particularly healthy stuff in it.

the EU and environmental brigade gradually had all the nasties removed making it nice and water soluble and nature friendly

So, first bit of rain and it washes off the wood.
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PostPosted: 15:52 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

50/50 old engine oil and creocote been using it since the real stuff was banned, do my fences every 2 years
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PostPosted: 16:07 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it stink though?

just a bit worried you will be able to smell my fence from about 5 miles away
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PostPosted: 16:13 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smells quite strong for a while but it dies down after a few days/weeks
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 27 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had 35 6ft panels to paint in that stuff, (at customers request) it smells awful, it's thinner than a Tesco value bin bag, and as Wonko said, it washes off easily.

Customer wanted all of them redoing after 12 months, this time I used Ronseal. I get it from the local sawmills so it's much cheaper than creocote anyway.
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PostPosted: 13:12 - 28 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

the ideal way of preserving timber is to dunk it in a tank of proper creosote and pressurise it so it penetrates the timber

it's how railway sleepers were done, although they've been helped over the years by locomotives dropping oil on them.

my fence is looking a bit shabby after only a few years of the panels being in and they were pressure treated with the new crap you have to use, will replace them with GRP next time.
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PostPosted: 14:45 - 28 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did my shed with 50:50 creocote and used ATF oil. Reapplied after 5 years. Shed still looks like new and it seems to keep the spiders away pretty well.
Have used it with used engine oil as well on fence panels.
Accidently mixed it with some used diff oil one time - that did smell pretty bad and darkened that fence panel a bit too much.

It will stay "wet" for a while because of the oil, but it does seem to last far beyond domestically available preservatives, and there's no notable smell after a week or so.
Preferable to do on a hot day, bone dry fence and warm oil will really soak in. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:22 - 28 Mar 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

cheers all I ordered 40litres of Creocote from the 'Bay.

i have had to do the fences ever year so far, they end up going whitish - im guessing sun bleached?

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PostPosted: 17:21 - 15 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a bit late with my reply to this but it is quite good stuff that Creocote, I've used it a lot of times over the past few years on various bits and pieces. It does need re-doing every year though, whereas I found real 'creosote' would last a fair bit longer.

It is sensibly (at sensible prices anyway) about the nearest you'll easily get ahold of to replace 'real' creosote and its 100 times better than the watery crap that some diy places try to sell at silly monies too.
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