What is the best material for outdoor furniture?
The key to outdoor furniture for hospitality venues is longevity of use, easily cleaning and how it fits in with your venue and brand look.
Here, are the best materials for outdoor furniture. Woodberry has been supplying hotels for over 15 years, we always want to help customers to make the right decisions for their business.
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HDPE Recycled Plastic
Recycled Plastic Outdoor Furniture is durable, easy to clean, won’t rot, is virtually maintenance free, doesn’t weather and has good green credentials. Picnic tables and dining tables and chairs should last at least 10-years of high frequency hospitality use. But a consideration is whether this will suit your venue in terms of looks. Recycled Plastic furniture products are starting to get more refined in design with a wide range of colours.
HLP (High Pressure Laminate)
HPL (high pressure laminate) is used extensively in tabletops. It can be printed in a wide variety of finishes. It is scratch resistant, very durable, and shouldn’t weather over time. This material needs a under frame (generally aluminium). You won’t get a whole product from HPL.
Hardwood
Teak, this is a very durable hardwood, is recognised as one of the best hardwoods for outdoor furniture, it will fade and weather over time to a lovely silver-grey but during this weathering process good quality teak won’t lose its integral strength. Robina wood is a cheaper hardwood option than teak with similar qualities.
Softwood
Pine is most commonly used in picnic table manufacture; this is a lot cheaper than hardwood and can be treated to help it to last as long as possible.
To best preserve softwood furniture, you would need to re-treat it annually and it might last up to 10-years commercial use.
Aluminum
This lightweight, weatherproof metal is good for tables and chairs; generally, powder coated, it can scratch quite easily on the tables and chair legs.
Polypropylene
Polypropylene (plastic) is one of the cheapest options available for tables and chairs.
It is durable depending on the thickness and quality you choose but over time it can become brittle and break.
It is fairly maintenance free but lacks the classy look that more premium chairs display.
