Teak And White Birch Outdoor Furniture

Teak and white birch outdoor furniture will allow you to spend less time fussing over your outdoor furniture and devote more time relaxing in it. Good quality hardwood outdoor furniture is built to stand up to the weather and remain virtually maintenance free. Finely crafted of the highest quality, kiln-dried, solid wood, it can be painted, oiled, or left to weather to a soft silvery gray patina as it settles into your garden or deck. Each piece is usually slanted either on the top or seat to shed rain water.

Teak is a closely grained hardwood with extremely high natural oil content. This makes it hard wearing, highly resistant to rotting and almost impervious to the effects of sun, rain, frost or snow. These natural features combine to make it the ideal timber for all outdoor applications. Testament to its strength and durability is the fact that, when English battleships were being scrapped after a lifetime of service, the teak from their decks was salvaged and re-made into garden benches.

Why is teakwood always the first choice for outdoor use? This immensely stable timber has a high oil and rubber content that act as a built in natural water repellent that makes it virtually immune to rotting. Teak furniture does not require babying or covering during bad weather.

You can leave it outside for over 100 years and the furniture will still be there. Such situations are common in Europe and Asia because teak and white birch outdoor furniture
furniture weathers beautifully, season after season, and can be left untreated outside without the risk of rotting.

Although officially known as the paper birch, the tree is also called the white birch and the canoe birch. Native American Indians made their canoes and the coverings for their houses with its bark. The white birch�s wood actually worked so well that white men imitated these practices for many years. White birch bark is extremely strong and almost totally resistant to rot.

The wood of the white birch is soft, firm, and knot-free. It is also used to make hundreds of food-related products, such as chopsticks, ice-cream sticks, toothpicks, and wooden spoons and is one of the main ingredients in plywood and wood pulp.