{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Interior Design Ideas For Your Home","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog","title":"The Garden Bench Waiting Game: UK Lead Time and Stock Data 2026 - FIF Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xDUBWuSqvl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/garden-bench-lead-time-stock-data-2026\/\">The Garden Bench Waiting Game: UK Lead Time and Stock Data 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/garden-bench-lead-time-stock-data-2026\/embed\/#?secret=xDUBWuSqvl\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Garden Bench Waiting Game: UK Lead Time and Stock Data 2026&#8221; &#8212; Interior Design Ideas For Your Home\" data-secret=\"xDUBWuSqvl\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.furnitureinfashion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dumy-1024x486-1.jpg","thumbnail_width":1024,"thumbnail_height":486,"description":"The Garden Bench Waiting Game: UK Lead Time and Stock Data 2026 - Garden benches are slow to arrive for logistical rather than manufacturing reasons: almost every UK household wants one in the same short weather triggered window, and a bench is a long, heavy, low density object that is expensive to hold in a warehouse. We publish no lead time or stock figures here because no genuine national dataset on UK bench availability exists and we will not model one. What we set out instead is the mechanism. Flat packed steel and composite benches return to stock fastest, while solid hardwood and cast metal benches are batch produced and cannot be compressed for transport, so they wait longest. Finish availability collapses before shape availability, which is why the same frame often remains in a different colour. We also address the constraint buyers find last: the route to the garden, where internal doors of 762mm or 838mm and narrower side gates defeat rigid benches that flat packed ones pass easily."}