Advice needed: Teak Garden Furniture.

 
I'm thinking about buying some benches for the garden but, being new to
this,
(me and my partner having just moved in), I was looking for some
advice.

Also, my friend uses Twitter when he came across this company
@rootandstone,
(again, all this is new to me). Passing the site onto me,
(http://rootandstone.co.uk ), I had a look around and the prices seemed
reasonable, (I think?).

I'm still unsure as how best to proceed though as I'm not fully versed
on what
the upkeep of this sort of thing is especially in regards to
weather and such.
So if anybody out there can offer any form of advice
in regards to this I'd be
most grateful.




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Benji

 On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:11:17 +0000, Benji


You really should be asking the furniture manufacturer for maintenence
advice for their product... how do you expect anyone here to know with
what that furniture is treated if anything.  Why don't you check their
web site for care information.

 
Thanks for the reply. I was planning on getting in touch with the
manufacturers but I was just looking for some impartial advice first. I
thought maybe someone on here might have brought something similar
before, (with it being garden based), and therefore able to offer me
some first-hand tips.

As I stated before I'm still fairly new to this so I apologise if I came
to the wrong area for help.




--
Benji

 Teak wood can stay out year round, but any wood exposed to the weather
year round will become rough.  You may find yourself sanding it every
year, at least the parts that you touch.  If you use the furniture a
*lot*, use will keep it smooth.

Teak is not the only wood that can stand up to staying out.  Cedar and
redwood hold up too, and cedar costs less.

Garden furniture made of durable wood like teak and cedar does not need
to be protected with paint or urethane deck stains.  Once a protectant
is used, though, it generally needs to be touched up every year because
it flakes and that looks and feels really bad and can make quite a mess.

Garden furniture that has to stay out all year needs stainless steel
or brass fasteners, preferably nut and bolt fasteners not wood screws.

I have some plastic garden chairs that I found at a charity shop years
ago, bought as a temporary measure while I looked out for "good" garden
furniture.  I still have the plastic chairs, and like them.  I like to
move them around, something that can be a big hassle with heavy wooden
furniture.

Do you need all-weather garden furniture?  Are you going to be out in
the garden in winter?  Or is it that you have nowhere to store the
furniture over winter?  Do you even need garden furniture?  Wait and
see...

    Una

 

No problem Benji.

Teak does well for exterior furniture.  Like all wood furniture, you'll need
to provide a little treatment to keep it in good shape over the years but it
really isnt much or hard to do.  It will weather naturally with little
trouble.

Oh, if you 'lost the link' it's because youa re accessing the news group
'rec.gardens' via the gardenbanter website.  It will feel to you like you
are talking to people on the gardenbanter website but actually it's a usenet
newsgroup carried by all sorts of providers.  Gardenbanter imports it and
provides the interface that I presume you prefer to read from.  Harmless but
if you lose it again, search for rec.gardens.