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    From TimW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 17 11:17:29 2025
    These water based outdoor garden paints - are they good for keeping the
    damp out of the wood and prolonging the life of a timber structure, or
    are they more decorative? I had a pot of one it was a semi-opaque colour
    wash, but surely it wasn't just watered down paint? is there some
    effective sealer or something in them? Or a fungicide?

    I have built a beautiful shed, completed in the Autumn. There wasn't any
    point in painting the outside feather edge boards in the wet, but now
    when we have some dry weeks and sunshine I might give it a coat of
    paint. The idea that I could just do one (or two) coats quickly with a
    big emulsion brush is quite appealing. I am not doing primer, u-coat,
    u-coat, gloss, gloss with all the knotting and rubbing down etc like
    they did in the olden days - I have my leisure time to think of.

    Tim W

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  • From Peter Johnson@21:1/5 to TimW on Mon Mar 17 11:55:12 2025
    On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:17:29 +0000, TimW <timw@nomailta.co.uk> wrote:

    These water based outdoor garden paints - are they good for keeping the
    damp out of the wood and prolonging the life of a timber structure, or
    are they more decorative? I had a pot of one it was a semi-opaque colour >wash, but surely it wasn't just watered down paint? is there some
    effective sealer or something in them? Or a fungicide?

    The product description will tell you.

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