How to choose garden furniture
Every year the market of garden furniture is being sated with production both of domestic and foreign manufacturers. In this article we shall try to find out how correctly to choose garden furniture and what models it is possible to buy.
Plastic
The popularity of plastic furniture can be easily explained: such furniture is not expensive and it is quite practical. Besides, the plastic garden furniture is waterproof. The technology of its manufacturing (moulding under pressure, application die-cut elements) has allowed replacing traditional wooden chairs with graceful comfortable armchairs.
Lunch and dessert tables, chairs are always in demand. The plastic benches were the “best seller” of the last season. For the last two years the plastic folding chaise lounges transformed to stove benches are steadily becoming more and more popular. They are very convenient for sunbathing. The price is various and depends on comfortableness, small wheels for easy moving and, certainly, the trade mark.
Nevertheless plastic has also many disadvantages. For example, these are the fading and decomposition at direct solar illumination. This remark is fair for cheap grades of plastic, but some expensive grades of plastic are resistible to ultra-violet radiation and do not burn out. Besides plastic is a fragile material.
Wicker furniture
It differs by its extraordinary grace, ajour style and, what is the most important, by its natural consistence. Such furniture is always associated with coziness.
Such furniture is usually made of willow rod of various thicknesses and represents rather complex products in the design attitude. Products made of rod can be divided into some types conditionally. The first one consists of a skeleton, whickered with a thin willow rod (not 0,5 centimeters in diameter). It is the cheapest variant of whickered furniture, but it is also the most unattractive one and such furniture is very unpractical. In most cases such furniture (without repairing) can serve you only for one season. The variant when a skeleton is braid with sanded up willow is more preferable and the rod is thicker - despite of small increase in the price you will receive more durable product. Besides such models are usually more attractive (unfortunately, there are also exceptions).
And finally, a skeleton from a thick rod (2-4 centimeters in diameter), with openwork designs from thinner rod (1-2 centimeters), and weaving from a thin rod is used only as a decorative element there, where the loadings are minimal. Naturally, the rod should be sanded up. It is important, that the rod has been varnished (usually use a furniture varnish) as thus the rod becomes less soiled and gets water-repellent properties (it prolongs service life of a product in some times). Varnished products can be easily washed and they are more attractive. When you buy furniture, do not forget to ask to ask the manufacturer, whether the rod has been boiled: the rod, thoroughly boiled according to special technology, is bent without breaks, does not lose elasticity after drying, besides at boiling all microbes, which lead to rotting of a tree perish, are being weeded out. You can use such furniture can for 20-30 and even 40 years.