Treating Teak Outdoor Furniture

The wood starts out a warm golden shade that ages to a silvery gray tone.

Treating teak outdoor furniture.

Teak wood has special qualities that make it ideal for outdoor use. There are some recommended products that you can use to treat the wood in order for it to keep a beautiful color long after you buy it. It requires very little care or maintenance to last decades. But if you apply the wrong type of product it can actually be harmful to teak wood in the long run.

Not only is it popular with homeowners but a number of large outdoor furniture companies use it to treat their products before shipping them out to. Treating your furniture with teak oil will not help extend the life of the furniture. Sealing your teak wood is a way to retain the golden color and help protect it against the elements. Because it is weather and age resistant teak outdoor furniture naturally requires minimal maintenance.

And out of all the teak sealers available in the market i feel semco gives superior results. From a structural standpoint teak outdoor furniture does not need any additional oil to last for decades. Teak wood made from the heartwood of the tree is the most durable. However it could make the teak wood dependent on continuous reapplications of oil to prevent the wood from drying out.