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Weather influences can cause your garden furniture to break. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to protect your furniture and extend its lifespan. In this article we give a number of tips on how to best do this.

Tip 1: Maintenance to protect wooden garden furniture

Wood is a natural product and therefore sensitive to weather influences. It is important to treat your wooden garden furniture. You do this by wiping them with a damp cloth and placing them in the oil. This way, your wooden garden furniture will remain beautiful for longer and you will get the best results.

If you do not maintain wooden garden furniture regularly, it can become discolored or damaged. It is therefore important to regularly maintain your wooden garden furniture. This prevents you from getting grayed garden furniture.

In addition to oil, you can also use stain to protect your hardwood garden furniture. Stain penetrates some of the wood and often provides a semi-gloss layer. Oil penetrates deeper into the wooden garden furniture, giving it a natural color.

Tip 2: Plastic garden furniture

Plastic garden furniture is less sensitive to weather influences, but can still be damaged. It is therefore important to cover them when you are not using them.

Plastic garden furniture can in principle be left outside during the winter months, but there is a chance that the furniture will develop some green deposits. However, you can easily clean this with green soap.

Tip 3: Use garden furniture protectors

Garden furniture protectors are covers that you can put over your garden furniture. It protects your furniture against dirt, rain, hail and sunshine. A protective cover is nice in a country like the Netherlands with heavy rain showers. The protective cover keeps your wooden garden furniture or plastic garden furniture dry and if you want to sit outside after the rain, you do not have to let the furniture dry first.

Make sure you have a protective cover that is water-repellent. Only these types of covers will protect the furniture against rain, moisture and of course sunlight.

Tip 4: Place your garden furniture in the shade

If it is very hot, put your garden furniture in the shade. For example, you can place them under an umbrella or near a tree. The wooden garden furniture will then discolour less quickly and you will retain the original color longer.

Tip 5: Use wood fats and varnishes

Wood greases and varnishes protect wood against weather influences. It is important to use them regularly, especially if you have wooden garden furniture. Stain is an option, but you can also use different oils for this. The choice of maintenance products is wide and suitable maintenance products can be found for every type of wood.

It is often recommended to first sand the wooden garden furniture. For example, sand the wooden garden table with coarse sandpaper and then make it dust-free. Then you coat the table with stain or oil. try to do this neatly so that you don't get any stains.

Treat wooden garden furniture

Not only is it cold in the winter months, the humidity also increases significantly. To protect your wooden garden furniture against weather elements such as rain, frost and sunlight, you can use an oil, gel or stain.

These maintenance products penetrate the wood and provide protection from the inside. In this way, the original color is retained, the garden furniture does not get dirty and green deposits do not stand a chance.

There is a choice of different products

• An oil penetrates completely into wood such as teak or other types of wood and immediately makes the wood water-repellent. After applying the oil, wait fifteen minutes and then wipe off excess oil with a dry cloth.

• With a gel you can effortlessly protect your wooden garden furniture against dirt and rain. You can easily do this yourself.

• You apply a stain to a thin protective layer on your garden furniture. This ensures easy maintenance and can also give a completely new look to your garden furniture.

Basic maintenance

In addition to treating your garden furniture, it is also important to perform basic maintenance. This refers to cleaning. This also ensures that your garden furniture remains beautiful in your garden for longer. Make a solution of green soap and warm water and wipe the garden chairs thoroughly and let them dry.

With green soap you can easily remove dirt and mold and clean your garden furniture without it staining your furniture. Green deposits are also easy to clean, but you may need to scrub more with a brush, for example.

Regardless of whether your garden furniture is made of teak wood, bamboo or plastic, your garden furniture needs maintenance.

Painting garden furniture with lacquer

Are you ready for a new look for your garden furniture? You could give your garden furniture a nice new color with a matte appearance. Lightly sand your garden furniture and dust thoroughly.

You can cover aluminum parts of the garden furniture with plastic, for example. If you have found a nice color of varnish, you should always shake and stir the varnish well first. Apply the varnish with a brush or brush and let it dry thoroughly.

Please note that lacquer is not a maintenance product, but purely a product that you can use to refurbish your garden furniture. It therefore provides no protection against dirt, moisture and green deposits. There are so many ways you can treat and maintain your garden furniture, but the most common way is stain, oil, paint or varnish.

Whichever way you choose, you will enjoy it for a long time and your garden chairs will look beautiful again.

Which garden furniture can be left outside?

In principle, all garden furniture can be left outside in the autumn as long as you have properly protected it with oils or stain. Or you have neatly stored the garden furniture under a furniture cover after cleaning. What is always better is to store the garden furniture in, for example, a shed where you can be sure that no moisture will enter it.

Garden furniture made of teak wood can take a bit more of a beating than other types of wood. However, it is wise to store these items to prevent mold or other unpleasant things.

Repair greyed teak

It is possible to restore your grayed garden furniture! The most important thing is that you have to clean the garden furniture first. You can do this with a mild cleaning agent, but do it intensively. This provides an optimal starting point for the oils or stain and it will be well absorbed into the wood.

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