Painting garden fences can be a tough job, but it can be made easier
Mia O’Hare Showbiz Reporter
14:12, 16 Mar 2026
You can paint fences without a brush(Image: Elva Etienne via Getty Images)
Tidying up your outdoor space is a crucial job at this point in the year, as conditions improve and people anticipate spending longer periods outdoors. Yet garden fencing can appear somewhat weathered following the pounding from winter gales.
Choosing to paint garden fencing might appear a lengthy and intimidating undertaking. Nevertheless, one TikTok user has revealed a remarkably straightforward tool she employs for painting.
She maintains it’s the quickest approach and has delivered excellent outcomes when she tested it herself.
As reported by Express.co.uk, Mrs Clare Hoops used the social media site to showcase how she used a large yellow sponge – available at DIY retailers for only £1 – to paint her garden fence.
Clare said: “I like to chop it in half so you have got two sponges.”
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She cautioned it can become rather messy, so recommended wearing some rubber gloves.
The social media user said: “I have tried so many different methods of painting fences over the years. This is by far the fastest.”
Clare simply took her sponge and plunged it into her pot of paint. She could then sweep the sponge across the fence, coating it in paint.
She said: “It just glides over and it gets into all the really bumpy bits. It is not the neatest, but it is definitely the quickest. Speed is what you need.”
Clare’s clip has garnered thousands of likes since being uploaded, with numerous followers keen to attempt the trick themselves.
One individual remarked: “Those sponges are such good value considering the myriad of uses they have.”
Another commented: “Good hack.”
Someone else wrote: “This found me at just the right time! Thank you.”
Meanwhile, another person shared their own hack. They said: “A rag does it too! Like an old T-shirt!”
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