How Long to Wait Before Staining a Pressure Treated Wood Fence | Backyardscape
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- čas přidán 25. 09. 2020
- Are you ready to stain your pressure treated wood fence, but wondering if you should wait?
Most fences are built with pressure treated wood. You have posts for the frame, 4x4s and 2x4s and 1x4s or 1x6s for the pickets.
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The company who installed my fence had us start staining the fence as it was being installed. He was adamant that you have to begin staining it as quickly as possible. Our fence took the stain just fine and it looks amazing
But how wet was it? What was the moisture percentage?
Great video!
About 4 years ago I built a pergola with pressure treated wood, pretty wet. I didn't know much about it. Immediately after building it I applied 2 coats of Home Depot Behr weatherproofing wood finish. The wood stayed tacky for a long time which I thought was odd, but eventually did dry and it still looks good today. It has also protected the wood from the weather really well. But I should have waited at least a month.
Thanks for that comment , I just bought that same Behr product and was curious about how it protects the wood.
@@dansmith5012 Glad it helped. I have had good luck with the Behr weatherproofiing stain finish. Cedar fencing wood is pretty dry, so I think you could apply it right away. I would caution you on the color choice though. The actual color you get is much dependent on the color of the wood. I used Transparent Cedar Naturaltone which looks good on pressure treated wood but is starkly orange on a very light-colored cedar decking where I tried it. I had to switch to another color for the decking. I think it was an oak-colored stain (I would have to look), one of the Behr color options that was mixed at the store. It came out great, though the color was still different from what was shown in the color brochure.
@@slydog7131 In my case it's a charcoal solid stain so I don't think there will be a problem with the color of the wood under it.
😅 .. thanks for the info . I already stained my lumber before it has dryed
I built a trellis and it's November in MN. Is it ok to wait until spring to stain it? Does it dry in the snow?
So I had a privacy fence installed September 2020. I'm in Charleston,S.C. and am ready to put on a clear coat. I pressure washed the fence today, and noticed many parts still beading up the water. Would you suggest to wait a little longer for it to warm up and dry some more?
If it's still beading then yes, I would wait because the stain won't take/adhere to the wet wood. I would take a spray bottle or water hose and check it weekly.
As PTL weathers, it changes color. Will this reflect in adding replacement pickets that may be ready for stain, but haven't weathered for a few years? In other words, will more weathered wood take the stain differently, so that there is a color difference? I'm not making fences, but I am adding to my raised beds, so there is a definite color difference, even though it will accept the stain? Should I just wait a year?
Hey there, thanks for the question. If you have a fence that is in need of replacement pickets, I would wait to stain them at the same time as the rest of the fence, since a fence should be stained every 2-3 years. If for some reason you have a picket that was damaged and you just stained your fence, I would wait till it's completely dry and stain it to protect it from the elements. There may be some color variation, but that can be remedied in a couple of years.
Hi, what type of lumber is the horizontal slat fence you showed… is that pressure treated pine?
Cedar most likely
I live in Central Florida, and I'm putting up a privacy fence--one picket at a time (pre-built panels are rare as hens' teeth!). Before I saw this video, I had planned to stain each piece of the fence before it's installed. Further hastening my desire to stain it, the fence will abut a neighbor's chain link fence, so once it's up I won't have access to the other side.
But it's now the *rainy season*, so we'll get rain every day until autumn (October ,thereabouts).
At what point can I stain my fence? And what happens if I can't stain both sides (the neighbors are *not* friendly people)?
I would have stain the neighbor side of fence before I built it.
@@citticat2 Of course, but that's not a particularly useful comment. As it turns out, I stained each picket individually, then built the fence. Worked for me. . .
I have to replace pieces of my deck board. You think 30 days would be okay. It’s new pt wood. I wanna stain this year. Live in New England
Best way to know is to just do the water test in 30 days. Add some water, if it soaks up the water, it's good to stain. If the water beads up, it's still wet.
Since we're getting into summer, it should be ok soon.
@@Backyardscape thanks. Home Depot said 1 year. I don’t wanna wait year. I’ll try this
@@appleztooranges if you’re using a water based stain, you might want to do a scrub and rinse with a cleaning product to wash of the pressure treating from the surface. If the pt wood resists rain, it will resist water based stain.
Hmmm, I swear I recognize this voice from the WP community!
Wait for a year.
This time I will do it manually with the help of woodglut designs.
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