I gave my grotty old fence a glow up with a lick of paint, but you’re doing it all wrong if you’re using a paintbrush
WITH summer here and the kids off from school, many people are taking the time to spruce up their gardens.
And Lou and Clay, known as reno_at_95, are no different. After moving into a 1932 semi-attached house in Chesterfield, the pair have spent time and effort renovating the place up.
Once they began to tackle the garden, they decided to give their old, grotty grey fence a glow up with a lick of paint.
While they initially used a paintbrush to do it, like many others have in the past, they quickly figured out a nifty hack to get the job done much easier.
Taking to social media, they posted a clip of themselves showing how patchy the paint looked on the fence when applied with a brush.
They then wagged a finger and swapped the brush for a sponge.
After dipping it into a can of brown paint, they then applied it onto the fence in smooth motions, showing just how easy it is.
Over this, they wrote: “For all you fence painters use a sponge not a brush,” followed a bicep emoji.
And in the caption, TikTok user @reno_at_95 added: “You can thank me later”.
People were quick to comment on the video as one person wrote: “Wish I knew this before we done my garden,” followed by two crying with laughter emojis.
Another said: “iv done this years I use a a car wash sponge I do my walls the same way xxx”.
A third shared: “As someone who needs to paint their fence… thank you,” alongside a crying with laughter emoji and a red heart emoji.
But some were doubtful of how good a hack this was as one person said: “imagine all the bits of sponge that rub off and get stuck to the fence”.
A second questioned: “or just put enough paint on the brush?”
While a third added: “That sponge gonna be all torn to pieces in a few min.”