Our chairs are the folding ones, so if we're not sitting on them they're folded and leaning against the table, then if it rains the seats don't really get wet and by the time the sun's out again they're fine to sit on. The big wooden garden benches are out all the time too - if they're damp I've got some old cushions that live in the garage and we just grab them to protect our btms.
The only precautions we take is to make sure that if strong winds are forecast the chairs are folded and laid down flat on the terrace, so they can't be blown over and damage expensive terracotta pots.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a good tip: raising the legs. The table's so posh that it has little screw feet things, like on the bottom of a fridge, and so it's off the ground. So, i will make sure the feet of the chairs aren't sat in a puddle. Thanks, Birdy13.
If you lot spent more time working instead of sitting supping you wouldn't need to worry about seats teak or not Teak,,, Tea break over comeon move it u lot!!!
But it saves on electiricity as i don't need to hoover up my biscuit crumbs inside the house and I have to have a perch to contemplate where and what to plant! And cus I work so hard on my garden, it allows mre time spent in there as I can rest inbetween doing strenuous jobs... I will have to start wiping the kitchen table now after eating - no more eating outside until I get used to the dropping temperatures and then will sit with coat on. Must go and see if some sort of garden fire pit thing is on offer at B & Q...
Talking of garden tables - mine is very shabby and I wanted it painted using proper wood stain but OH said ordinary cheap cooking oil would be sufficient to do the job. However, it's now looking very shabby again after just three months of using cooking oil. Was that effort a waste of time and money and should he have gone to B&Q?
Oh dear, you'll need to train him better than that or he'll be no good as an under-gardener! If a job's worth doing, and all that ....
I'm surprised you've not ruined the seat of your best frock!!!
Yes he should've gone to B&Q - however now the table is going to be oily and horrid - he'll need to clean it down properly before he paints it for you, with some lovely woodstain especially selected by you - there are colourcharts online
I hope you don't let him do any cooking for you, goodness knows what he'd use ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Olive oil with a drop of lemon juice is fine for sealing wooden worktops in kitchens. i sue it on my beech counters. However, for external use, teak oil is best as it absorbs and preserves well without making a crust and is easily cleaned up in spring.
I like the golden glow of my teak table but it's too big to take under shelter so it gets left out all winter in temps down to the late -20sC. last year, I was fed up of doing the annual spring clean with the sander and oiling it so I spent extra time giving it a coat of special wood preservative with a pale grey patina an dthen sealed that with a special coat of protector.
Lo and behold, these too products are not good down to -28C and have flaked off or grown algae so I've had an even longer job sanding it all off and have gone back to feeding with teak oil. Next spring will be the last so I know it has a good seal of oil and then it can age with grace and go a natural silvery grey.
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obelixx, cor blimey what a lot of work you have put in to your table! I won't be putting teak oil on mine again and will let it weather naturally and hopefully I will get that much wanted silver-grey! You must live somewhere very cold!
Even teak furniture will rot given the right/wrong conditions. Due to injury I was unable to look after the garden properly for 2 or 3 years and a good quality teak bench was left under an overgrown pergola all that time. When finally retrieved, a section of the back had completely rotted away.
The conditions would have been exceptional, i.e. wet, humid and dark with little sun or air movement. Just don't think that you can automatically assume that teak will simply last a lifetime.
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Our chairs are the folding ones, so if we're not sitting on them they're folded and leaning against the table, then if it rains the seats don't really get wet and by the time the sun's out again they're fine to sit on. The big wooden garden benches are out all the time too - if they're damp I've got some old cushions that live in the garage and we just grab them to protect our btms.
The only precautions we take is to make sure that if strong winds are forecast the chairs are folded and laid down flat on the terrace, so they can't be blown over and damage expensive terracotta pots.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a good tip: raising the legs. The table's so posh that it has little screw feet things, like on the bottom of a fridge, and so it's off the ground. So, i will make sure the feet of the chairs aren't sat in a puddle. Thanks, Birdy13.
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sorry Alan
but I have raked and carted a very large area of cut meadow this morning. And been stung by a wasp
In the sticks near Peterborough
But it saves on electiricity as i don't need to hoover up my biscuit crumbs inside the house and I have to have a perch to contemplate where and what to plant! And cus I work so hard on my garden, it allows mre time spent in there as I can rest inbetween doing strenuous jobs... I will have to start wiping the kitchen table now after eating - no more eating outside until I get used to the dropping temperatures and then will sit with coat on. Must go and see if some sort of garden fire pit thing is on offer at B & Q...
Yak, wasp stings...
Oh dear, you'll need to train him better than that or he'll be no good as an under-gardener!
If a job's worth doing, and all that ....
I'm surprised you've not ruined the seat of your best frock!!!
Yes he should've gone to B&Q - however now the table is going to be oily and horrid - he'll need to clean it down properly before he paints it for you, with some lovely woodstain especially selected by you - there are colourcharts online
I hope you don't let him do any cooking for you, goodness knows what he'd use ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Olive oil with a drop of lemon juice is fine for sealing wooden worktops in kitchens. i sue it on my beech counters. However, for external use, teak oil is best as it absorbs and preserves well without making a crust and is easily cleaned up in spring.
I like the golden glow of my teak table but it's too big to take under shelter so it gets left out all winter in temps down to the late -20sC. last year, I was fed up of doing the annual spring clean with the sander and oiling it so I spent extra time giving it a coat of special wood preservative with a pale grey patina an dthen sealed that with a special coat of protector.
Lo and behold, these too products are not good down to -28C and have flaked off or grown algae so I've had an even longer job sanding it all off and have gone back to feeding with teak oil. Next spring will be the last so I know it has a good seal of oil and then it can age with grace and go a natural silvery grey.
obelixx, cor blimey what a lot of work you have put in to your table! I won't be putting teak oil on mine again and will let it weather naturally and hopefully I will get that much wanted silver-grey! You must live somewhere very cold!
Even teak furniture will rot given the right/wrong conditions. Due to injury I was unable to look after the garden properly for 2 or 3 years and a good quality teak bench was left under an overgrown pergola all that time. When finally retrieved, a section of the back had completely rotted away.
The conditions would have been exceptional, i.e. wet, humid and dark with little sun or air movement. Just don't think that you can automatically assume that teak will simply last a lifetime.