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Teak Wood for your outdoor furniture
The beauty of the decor in your home page is very relevant selection of appropriate furniture design. Talk about furniture for the yard or garden or terrace house, of course, slightly different from the furniture to the inside of your home. There are specific requirements for outdoor furniture, foremost among which is resistance to weather and insect bites or your pet.
Furniture with the above criteria are usually made of teak wood.
Here are some of the advantages of teak wood for furniture:
1) solid teak wood and durable.
2) It is resistant to bad weather and insects. A park bench made of teak wood is able to withstand rain and sun for several years even without periodic maintenance.
3) Unlike furniture made of other materials, teak furniture does not require artificial polishing or oiling.
4) Teak wood is rich with silica and natural oil content that makes it resistant to all kinds of insects.
5) Teak is very suitable for the job structure and design of carvings, elastic and firm.
6) Teak wood can not rot or break even if it remains in contact with metals like iron for years due to the presence of silica and oil content.
The stylish design with clean lines,
9) Cleaning and maintaining teak furniture is very easy.
Teak trees are classified as Tectona grandis and belongs to the family Verbenaceae. One reason for the high cost of teak is that it takes about 50 to 60 years to complete his physical growth. Despite the high cost and difficulty to acquire, teak is still the preferred wood for making high quality furniture, doors, windows etc. Although teak wood is immune to heat and humidity and resistant to insects, timely cleaning and maintenance will surely prolong his life. High cost and scarcity of teak have slowly caused the use of other hardwoods like African oak and mahogany in its place. But none of them in accordance with the quality of teak.
For teak furniture remains beautiful after all these years we have, we need to do some simple maintenance that is easy to do. Here are some tips you can do to keep the furniture remain durable:
1. First use a small brush to clean the carvings, which are difficult to reach with a rag.
2. After the timber clean of dust, spray Pledge to taste the wood, then use a cloth rag to flatten the Pledge.
3. If the wood surface is glossy, perform the final act of wiping cloths with bales of cloth.
Do these treatments once a month outside the Gallery Furniture care of daily cleaning with a duster just enough. Guaranteed keep your furniture a new look of all time.