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- Tips for working up your garden furniture
- Garden furniture with simple tricks work up
- First program: cleaning!
- Second step: Check garden furniture for damage
- Work up wooden garden furniture
- Refresh furniture made of iron or rattan
- Process plastic garden furniture
- Tips
Abrasion removes stains and small scratches
Tips for working up your garden furniture
If you want to enjoy your garden furniture for a long time, you should work it up each spring. With a thorough cleaning, some paint, wood oil and glaze can also make old furniture made of wood, iron, rattan or plastic again handsome.
Garden furniture with simple tricks work up
In the spring, the garden furniture from the garage or the basement are brought. Now it turns out that they are still sound and handsome enough to be used for another year.
Damaged garden furniture can be worked up with a few simple means. The options available depend on the material used to make the furniture.
To work up you need:
First program: cleaning!
For all garden furniture applies that you first have to clean it properly. Brush off dust, dirt and cobwebs. Especially with plastic furniture you have to be careful not to damage the surfaces.
Second step: Check garden furniture for damage
After cleaning, check if the furniture is still intact. Folding garden furniture, whose hinges are no longer working, you usually have to dispose of.
If the covering of chairs and chairs is no longer in order, check whether you can re-string them.
Tighten screws and oil all hinges.
Work up wooden garden furniture
Natural wood furniture should be treated with a wood oil before use. This protects the surfaces and makes them less sensitive to stains.
For painted garden furniture, you can repair paint damage or repaint the furniture. Before that you have to sand down the old paint and treat the wood with a primer.
Refresh furniture made of iron or rattan
Garden furniture made of iron or rattan does not usually have to be refurbished because they are very robust and stable.
If necessary, remove rust from iron garden furniture.
Process plastic garden furniture
Damage such as small spots or chipped paint can be made invisible with special paint for plastics.
Tips
Soft wood furniture needs a new finish every few years. If you want to spare yourself this time-consuming work, you should in the future rely on garden furniture made of hard woods such as teak, cedar and robinia from sustainable cultivation.