Using a tent to over-winter garden furniture. Yes/no?
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We have quite a lot of hardwood patio furniture, some of it quite old. It now gets 2 coats of teak oil every year but still suffers over the winter.
Cornish winters here can be long, wet and windy. Last winter we covered it all with a mixture of cheap synthetic bench covers, heavy lined covers and tarpaulins.
The cheap ones all started to split in the wind. Most of it had degrees of mouldiness when uncovered and some actually blew over.
It's not worth a huge amount but would be very costly to replace with new so I'd like some ideas for over-winter protection, please.
Cornish winters here can be long, wet and windy. Last winter we covered it all with a mixture of cheap synthetic bench covers, heavy lined covers and tarpaulins.
The cheap ones all started to split in the wind. Most of it had degrees of mouldiness when uncovered and some actually blew over.
It's not worth a huge amount but would be very costly to replace with new so I'd like some ideas for over-winter protection, please.
We had one extra shed last year and the OH won't consider another.
Reading more about tents, I agree: they don't seem to be designed for long-term use. So my latest thought is something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonHaus-Walk--Polytunnel-...
Does anyone have any experience of these things?
Reading more about tents, I agree: they don't seem to be designed for long-term use. So my latest thought is something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonHaus-Walk--Polytunnel-...
Does anyone have any experience of these things?
CoolHands said:
size of your garden I wouldve thought a large shed at the bottom wouldn't be seen! Anyway, looks like the tent will work.
You can just make out, in the first photo, two wooden sheds further down. A third would have been much more expensive than this tent, a long way to carry heavy furniture and difficult to 'hide'.This tent cost me £40. Best new retail price is £130 (if you live in Devon or Cornwall) from Trago. Buying as an import via eBay will be nearly twice that.
I was quoted over £700 for a built 8' x 8' wooden shed. The kit I bought last year cost £500 plus about another £100 for base materials.
The tent is sold as suitable for storing a car, small tractor mower etc, presumably all year round.
If I decide to lift and disassemble it next spring I'll just sprinkle grass seed. New lawn in a month or two.
Anyway, that covers all my reasoning. I'll update on success or otherwise as and when.
I was quoted over £700 for a built 8' x 8' wooden shed. The kit I bought last year cost £500 plus about another £100 for base materials.
The tent is sold as suitable for storing a car, small tractor mower etc, presumably all year round.
If I decide to lift and disassemble it next spring I'll just sprinkle grass seed. New lawn in a month or two.
Anyway, that covers all my reasoning. I'll update on success or otherwise as and when.
Update after 9 months of wind and rain i.e. Cornish winter and spring weather.
I did have to alter the side sheet on the uphill side early on to stop rainwater running down through the tent. The gap between the back sheet and the ground has allowed bits of grass etc to blow in and, to judge by the white spots on some of the seats, a bird has also been in there.
Bot no mould, that's the main thing. It'll stay up and be used for as long as it lasts.
I did have to alter the side sheet on the uphill side early on to stop rainwater running down through the tent. The gap between the back sheet and the ground has allowed bits of grass etc to blow in and, to judge by the white spots on some of the seats, a bird has also been in there.
Bot no mould, that's the main thing. It'll stay up and be used for as long as it lasts.
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