White stain on pressure treated wood?

[fightingbunny]

Has anyone used a white stain on pressure treated wood?

I really want my roof rafters and purlins to be white, but I have pressure treated wood for them. I do not want to wait 6 months for it to dry in order to paint it, as taking down hardware cloth to paint would be a real pain. I would like it to start out as white colored wood before I put up the hardware cloth.

I read online (the source of all truth) that I can use a water based stain even on wet pressure treated wood. Is this correct? If so, does anyone have a recommendation of a brand/type available at Home Depot/Lowes that I should use? I would rather have a white stained look than the pressure treated color. Pure white like painted would of course look the best, but I am okay compromising with a stain.

Thanks for any advice!
Jenn

 

[RonC]

The pressure treating might not soak through if you use the latex based Kilz. It would be white like paint. Let it dry and air out a few days before putting any chickens in it. The oil based Kilz might work too if you have long enough for it to air out but the odor is much stronger.

 

[fightingbunny]

I will have about three weeks after painting before any chickens move in. I will go by Home depot and try to pick up some white Kilz and give it a go!

Thank you!

 

[RonC]

Give it a few days to dry. If it bleeds through give it another coat. I don't think anything would get through two coats of it.

 

[aart]

Depends on how wet the treated wood is, most stuff fresh from a busy lumber seller is still pretty darn wet (from treating) when you get it.

Don't think there's any kind of paint that will stick well to wet wood.
You can try to paint it, but don't be too sad when the paint starts to peel off after a time.

 

[RonC]

If it's really wet you might try a fan on it for a couple of days to get what you can dried out before painting. Most I see here isn't too bad but I have seen some that was pretty wet.

 

[jeria]

I didn't know better, painted most of mine already with one coat of exterior paint, more to come later. Some pieces were much heavier than others so assuming wetter. What will that do to the lumber? Only using treated for corner posts and a base all around.

 

[Dmontgomery]

Paint, either oil based or latex, is designed to stick to the surface of wood. Wood shrinks as it dries, so like @aart said, it may peel off later.
Stain is designed to penetrate the wood, that is, the wood soaks it up. If the wood is too wet, it can't soak in the stain. Just like a wet towel won't wipe up more water.
You can put stain on PT wood even though it has not completely dried, but less of it will be absorbed than it would be if the wood has dried out for a while. Probably some of your boards are drier than others, at least on one side. The drier areas will look different than the wetter board, but still be kinda white. Good luck.

 

[Howard E]

Paint, either oil based or latex, is designed to stick to the surface of wood. Wood shrinks as it dries, so like @aart said, it may peel off later.
Stain is designed to penetrate the wood, that is, the wood soaks it up. If the wood is too wet, it can't soak in the stain. Just like a wet towel won't wipe up more water.
You can put stain on PT wood even though it has not completely dried, but less of it will be absorbed than it would be if the wood has dried out for a while. Probably some of your boards are drier than others, at least on one side. The drier areas will look different than the wetter board, but still be kinda white. Good luck.

X2. If your treated wood is still a bit wet, water based stain is your best bet to last. Any latex paints on wet wood will almost certainly blister and peel over time.

 

[fightingbunny]

The stain I used was minwax water based wood stain white tint base. We had white pigment added. It needed the pigment to have any effect. We tested on one of those stirring things at the store.