How Long Britons Keep Their Garden Furniture
Garden furniture is replaced sooner than anything else in the British home, and our assessment is that exposure rather than use sets the timetable. Cushions, covers, zips and fixings fail long before frames do, which means the households keeping a set longest are simply the ones with somewhere dry to put it in winter. Furniture in Fashion examines why the British climate ends outdoor furniture from the soft components inwards, why powder coated aluminium and dense hardwood outlast painted steel and softwood, and why a tightly sealed cover can do more damage than no cover at all. The report sets out material against maintenance, realistic failure modes, patio sizing for four and six seater dining, and the small annual checks that separate furniture retired for looks from furniture retired for safety. No statistical claim is made about average ownership periods, because no national dataset supports one....
