Caring for your outdoor furniture enables you to maintain high quality outdoor dining and seating areas through every season. From regular use during the summer to prolonged storage during the winter, outdoor furniture can be subject to detrimental conditions, lowering its effectiveness and causing visual signs of use. Keeping your furniture clean and cared for keeps it in prime condition for continued use all year round. Our range of garden and outdoor furniture is made with the highest standards and the below guide will help you keep it in top working condition.
Caring for Outdoor Furniture
It’s important to care for your outdoor furniture to maintain high standards throughout the year. Whether it’s being used daily in summer or is in storage for winter, the condition of your furniture is always susceptible to wear and tear. Here’s our guide to keeping your furniture in top condition.
Outdoor furniture care
Wood
- Pre-treat wooden furniture with protective oil such as Rustins Teak Oil before using it outdoors
- Store wooden furniture indoors between uses to avoid long exposures to damp weather
- Nisbets offers folding and stackable chairs with maching flip-top tables to make setting up and storing garden furniture a breeze
Metal
- Keep furniture as dry as possible and remove water sports quickly with a dry cloth to avoid rust
- Regularly check the joints, screws and weight bearing points of metal furniture
- Using a stainless steel cleaner will easily remove smudges and finger marks
Plastic
Wicker
- Wicker furniture should never be exposed to water, so dirty marks should be removed with a dry brush or vacuum cleaner
- Use parasols or gazebos to avoid long exposure to direct sunlight which may fade the colour of the wicker furniture
- For the same style with less fuss, Nisbets sells a range of faux wicker chairs and tables which are just as easy to maintain as plastic furniture
Faux wood
- The Envio faux wood table and bench can be left outdoors all year round without any need for oiling or waxing
- Nisbets offers a range of faux wood tables and chairs to deliver the stylish look of wood with the easy care of plastic furniture. The coated steel frames of the faux wooden furniture should be kept dry to avoid rusting