Which terrace furniture?

If it should last a long time and not be too expensive: On my professional forays, I keep seeing "Teak-Outlet" stores. In one of these, we bought two 3-person benches and a correspondingly wide table with an extension and a fold-out additional middle part about 12 years ago. These pieces of furniture have been standing in the garden without a roof ever since and are as sturdy as on the first day. The patina can be sanded off from time to time with a kind of coconut sponge and the wood oiled afterwards. We've probably done that about three times. If I remember correctly, we spent €700 on the table and €300 each for the benches. It is important that the seating test fits – there are surprisingly comfortable benches and real torture spots that look similar at first sight.

I also like teak wood, but we always have reservations because of the environment. So better not.

OT: Planted about 200 trees over the weekend together with Nabu.

Yes, today I would pay attention to a certificate of origin.

OT: I took down a tree over the weekend - it had to make way for a construction.

Yes, that was my plan anyway. I want to get information now and choose the model. Then add it to the Idealo watchlist and strike when it fits!

Thanks to the others for the help. I have to discuss this with my wife, she’s afraid that the armrests will be worn out in no time.

For your information: not all dealers list themselves on Idealo and co. I have almost always bought equivalent or cheaper somewhere else (not just garden furniture).

Well, there are minimum order quantities for imported furniture. It’s not just about the financial investment - there has to be storage space, too. You can’t store a truckload of furniture just for one table. The big buyers order once a quarter anyway, so one table doesn’t make much of a difference. But the smaller seller then sells better to someone else...

They wouldn’t have needed to store anything at all. I didn’t need the furniture over the winter. We would have accepted delivery in the spring, since she would have had to reorder anyway if she had a clearance sale in the fall. But we didn’t get that far in the conversation because she was of the opinion that she doesn’t order tables with wood running lengthwise... period. I just wonder why that one table looked exactly like we wanted, just a bit too long. The length we wanted was listed as an option on a display stand.

But we didn’t even get that far in the conversation because she was of the opinion that tables with wood in the longitudinal direction are not ordered by her.... period.

Hehe, this seller only sells what he himself likes. So either he is very successful or very unsuccessful...