Storing Plastic Garden Furniture
How and Where to Store your Garden Furniture
In order to keep the life-span of your plastic garden furniture, you should store them somewhere during long periods of without use and during extreme weather conditions. Proper storage will increase the value of your garden furniture and allow you to use them for years on end.
The reason proper storage matter is because freezing temperatures can cause plastic to become brittle, and extreme heat can cause the plastic to become limber, allowing it to bend under too much weight. If too much sun exposure occurs, most colors will fade. This is why it is important to properly store your plastic garden furniture in the correct places.
One thing to be careful of is storing your plastic garden furniture in the garage. It is a common mistake to put the plastic furniture in the garage so it is important to know what it can do to it. The garage will protect your garden furniture from rain and sun, but the garage may fail from protecting the furniture from humidity. This can cause weathering, which will damage your plastic garden furniture. If you do wish to store your furniture in the garage, make sure the garage has some sort of way of keeping humidity down.
It may also be good to store your plastic garden furniture during the summer. During the summer, you can get high temperatures which can cause the plastic to soften and bend. This can be damaging and ruin the furniture. Therefore, you will either want to store the garden furniture in the shade or in a location where it can stay cool.
