Cuprinol CUPGWPRERC4L 4L Ultimate Garden Wood Preserver - Red Cedar

Have used this product for past 11 years applying every 3 years and my lap fence is as good as the day it went up. The colour lasts well - I perhaps could have managed 4 years but areas of high weather abrasion told me an application necessary. Not the cheapest product available but less man hours spent with a brush pays for the extra expense of the preservative. I would recommend this to save your fence and save your time in application. Brushes washed in hot soapy water another benefit. There are spring and summer offers around so check around for best price

2 coats and the jobs done, summer house looks like new

Did not like the colour. Prefer a spirit based product. A preservative not a paint type.

I've bought a lot of this over the last five years, admittedly all of it spruce green. It's on all our garden buidlings (2 sheds and a very large wood store) and I've now bought more to recoat the first shed I painted five year's back. Over that time I've not noticed any change in the water-based formula and the colour appears consistently identical. It recoats the original just fine. I've taken to using it exclusively simply because it outlasts anything else I've every used, maintaining good apparent protection for five years as claimed. Moreover, we live in a moderately exposed location in southern Scotland and can get pretty battered with storms during the year. This summer it finally started wearing thin on the first shed I painted, ironically I suspect mostly as a consequence of the long hours of sunshine we were basking in. To be blunt, shed painting is not exactly fun. If I can do it every five years, rather than every two or three, it's a no-brainer even if I have to pay twice as much for the paint when I do it (and if you're paying for someone to paint for you it it really is a no-brainer!). It's possible too I guess, that in the interim the wood experiences less overall degradation. The only minor downside, is that it sometimes does not adhere well to very smooth wood on the first coat and you get the feeling you're just smearing it around. But it seems to sort itself out on the second and subsequent coats to give an even colour. Repainting the original coating has been easier in that respect. It's good to find something that really works well.

The colour was slightly lighter than I expected but it looks really nice (Country Oak), more of a dark chocolate brown, for some reason I thought it would be almost black. It looks a little thin in the can and can drip as you brush it on but it covers really well which is slightly surprising as it looks thin. The weather hasn't been great and I lack spare time but with one good thick coat and a light touch up where it showered early this morning it looks great! I was thinking I would need a second or third coat but it looks good enough. I always like to slap it on get the wood well covered so may be it is my technique. I did put some news paper down to catch the drips / splatter.I used cloves but managed to get my hands splattered, a good sign of the wood protection is the fact that it was fairly difficult to wash it off my hands. It's like another layer of skin so I feel confident it will protect my new fence and gate. For a thin looking preservative it sure does do a good job. I guess being thin means it soaks well into the wood... If you are brushing near a patio area be sure to place some newspaper with bricks or stones near by as the brush will probably splatter.

Product worked well.

Used this for my shed and Summerhouse. The first coat on bare wood soaks in easily. Do not load your brush as it has consistency of water. Also stir very well before use and during application to ensure full colour.The second and subsequent coats are difficult to apply over the first coat. It takes multiple brush strokes to spread evenly into the wood. I found it best to apply during warm weather.A two coat finish is excellent against weathering and looks good too.Highly recommended if you want to protect your wooden buildings well into the future.

The supplier did not ensure it was packed correctly. The tin normally arrived covered in Clingfilm and has two metal securing clips on the lid. The metal lid clips were not present and only tape was securing the lid. As the pictures show paint was leaking from the lid down the tin and into the packaging. NOT very impressed!!! Supplier please take note!!