How To Restore Outdoor Furniture
Give a second life to your garden furniture
With the arrival of sunny days, the desire is to spend more time on the terrace to enjoy the rays of the sun and have a good time with family or friends. The only downside: after spending the winter outside, garden chairs, tables, and armchairs are a bit off and don’t look very good. So before organizing a barbecue evening, the time has come to renovate your garden furniture, whether it is an exotic wood, iron, or resin. By using the right products, the results can be spectacular!
How to restore wooden garden furniture?
Aesthetic and noble, exotic wood is a very popular material for garden furniture. However, even if it is a good quality gasoline and which has been treated for outdoor use, wooden garden furniture has difficulty facing bad weather which inexorably ends up degrading it. Yes: rain, frost, snow and the sun are all factors capable of shortening the longevity of wooden garden furniture. The wood cracks, loses its color and shine, it turns gray. Garden furniture therefore needs a little attention so as not to lose its elegance and last for many years!
To restore your exotic wood garden furniture , it is of course essential to use a product totally suitable for this type of material. We generally recommend a renovating and protective oil – such as Starwax oil for example. Extremely simple to use, this type of 2-in-1 product gives color to gray wood garden furniture without having to be repainted. But that’s not all: it also protects the wood against weather conditions and stains. In addition to regaining its former luster, your wooden garden furniture will also be protected and more resistant!
Of course, if you have a garden shed or a room, it is highly recommended to store your wooden garden furniture there during the winter. Thus sheltered, it will not suffer from bad weather and you will be able to recover it in much better condition when the sunny days return.
Iron garden furniture: beware of rust
Delightfully vintage and full of character, moisture-ridden iron patio furniture will always rust over the years. When this attacks your garden furniture, it is necessary to first carry out a stripping. The tools you are going to use depend directly on the extent of the damage to your patio furniture.
Thus, if the wire brush and sandpaper are enough to dislodge a few spots of rust, stripping is necessary when the damage is greater. Chemical stripping requires the use of a specific product. As for sandblasting and thermal stripping, they are more difficult to achieve. In any case, once the rust has been completely eliminated, it is essential to apply a rust remover on the garden furniture and then repaint it in the color of your choice.
Restore resin garden furniture
In recent years, plastic garden furniture has become popular. Generally inexpensive, it also needs a little care at the end of winter. While dirty or stained, plastic patio furniture can be cleaned simply with a sponge, water, and liquid soap without bleach. This is because bleach tends to yellow plastics.
On the other hand, white vinegar, baking soda, and renovating products for garden furniture in resin and plastic make it possible to restore this furniture to its new appearance, whether white or colored. And nothing prevents repainting a resin garden furniture if you want to give it a makeover so that it sticks to the trend: a special exterior paint for plastic is enough!