Having never failed to get good advice on here before, I wonder if anyone can help with this….?
We have a fence around the entrance of our development made of cedar poles. Three round rails and a post every 8 to 9 feet. This was stained about three years ago and is beginning to look a little tired. There is about 350 feet of the stuff and I was wonder how much preservative this will take.
All suggestions apprecaited.
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Is that 350 LF Total or 350' of three rail fence? How are you going to apply the stain? Spray or roller? I'm guessing about a quart per section.
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Typo - its 3,500 linear feet of fence!
I'd take one section figure out the surface area of it, multiply by the # of sections and get the total surface area. No need to get exact but close.
Figure out how much surface area your stuff claims it can cover and you should have a ball park of what you need.
Add a little more to the ball park and be prepared for an extra trip to pick up enough to finish the job when you run out. :)View ImageGo Jayhawks
I reckon there's about 3.3sqft per lin ft so this fence has a bunch of feet like a centipede!
Anyway, the coverage is the big variable. On smooth wall surface, most stains will cover about 450 sqft rolled on. Spray it and the coverage is cut in half. or use it on rough cut surfaces and you cut it in half. Try putting it on round rungs and a lot of it will drip off regardless of application method. I wouldn't be suprised if the coverage rate were only 100sqft per gallon. That's real close to the quart per section that was mentioned above. Or a total of about 115 gallons!.
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Or I guess he could just figure out how much was used on the intial staining. either way, not a job I would want.
115 gallons, thats a lot of stain, and a lot of money.View ImageGo Jayhawks