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Title: Painting raised beds
Post by: caseylee on March 05, 2008, 18:13:29
Hello there
My friend has managed to make me some beautiful rasied beds from a old chest and some pallets, but he says to protect it from the wather I need to paint it, any ideas
Title: Re: Painting raised beds
Post by: springbok on March 05, 2008, 18:17:55
You can buy non toxic paint.  Not sure if that will work, but I bought non toxic paints   when I painted items for my sons nursery.  It was similar to gloss, but would not harm him or the environment.

Worth looking into though :D
Title: Re: Painting raised beds
Post by: caseylee on March 05, 2008, 18:39:52
i might have a look for that, my husband has wood paint that is suppossed to be non toxic so not sure what to do, surely the beds would  be ok without painting them
Title: Re: Painting raised beds
Post by: grawrc on March 05, 2008, 19:41:12
You'll need to use paint suitable for outdoors like Cuprinol, Sadolin, Ronseal - toxicity isn't really the issue but stopping potential rot. It's wood preservative rather than funky coloured paint??