Wood is one material that is unique. It looks natural is usually the main reason people use this material for elements of the house.

One element that could house is made ??of wood fence. Because of its location outside the home and receives sunlight intensity is high, which is used as a finishing paint (coating of the final stage) fence, to be precise.

According to an expert, choosing paint for wood fence is basically similar to choosing paint for wood. Noteworthy is the paint timber to the fence should be weather resistant and flexible to changes in weather.

If you want a wooden fence still looks natural, an expert suggested to use transparent paint. This paint does not close the wood surface with a “meeting” so that the color and wood grain is still visible. Unfortunately, right, if you use wood fiber grade 1 with a beautiful, but covered by the paint?

Although called a transparent, transparent paint can also provide color to the wood. It’s just like the paint color is not solid. Coloring properties only slightly alter the original color to a lighter-wood or dark-wood fibers and does not close.

For the fence, choose the type of paint that has a protection against UV rays, such as specialized exterior paint varnish. melamik less precise paint used as a coating wooden fence because they do not have the UV protection resulting from the pigment color.

Application transparent paint on a fence intended to protect wood from UV rays on the surface. If protected, the wood will not be quickly obsolete and change color. Wood brown color when exposed to light over time can turn into gray.

We recommend that repainted the wood surface after 1 year. Surfacing just one time only. Before coated, sandpaper threshold beforehand with sandpaper No. 400.

Transparent Paint Coating Processes
1. After the surface planed wood, sandpaper surface fiber direction using sandpaper No. 180.
2. Surface layers of wood with a brush. Wait a few moments to dry.
3. Sandpaper threshold with sandpaper no. 400.
4. again coated the surface with a brush.
5. Wait until the surface is dry. Then, repeat the process no. 3 and 4.

Tips
1. Choose the type of timber strength classes 1, because it is hard and strong against UV rays, such as ironwood, bengkirai wood, or merbau wood. In addition to hard wood, wood moisture content is also worth noting. Use a timber with water levels below 15%.
2. For wood is not rotted because of water, the construction fence should also be considered. Leave a gap between the soil surface to the bottom of the fence so that if there are puddles on the ground does not soak into the wood. Although already coated paint, does not guarantee the paint will not be brittle when wood submerged in water.
3. Do not use putty or wood filler before paint coated wood. When wood putty then given the wood fiber will close and the texture is not visible. In addition, the putty is not flexible to changes in weather. As a result, at times can be peeled off together with upholstery paint.