Care
Outdoor furniture in the Gulf is looked after in three verbs: rinse, dry, store. Everything below is one of those three applied to a particular material.
The register's finishes each want something slightly different. A metal frame, where a range has one, is powder-coated and wants the salt rinsed off it. The timber is teak, oil-sealed, and wants either an oil once a year or to be left alone; both are correct and it depends which colour you prefer. The weave is solution-dyed acrylic, which means the colour is in the fibre rather than printed on it, and it wants the dust brushed off before it gets wet.
None of that is difficult and none of it is often. What matters more than any of it is drying: water that leaves is harmless, and water that sits is the whole problem. Cushions dry on edge rather than flat, and a rinsed frame gets a cloth rather than an afternoon.
What this page will not do is promise you a decade. The coating film and the salt-spray hours are the fabricator's commitments and they have not been made yet, so they are marked here as absent rather than filled with a number that reads well.
Water that leaves is harmless. Water that sits is the whole problem.
Timber
- Every week, or when it looks dusty
- Fresh water and a soft brush along the grain. Nothing else is needed.
- Once a year, if you want the warm tone
- A clear exterior oil, thinly, on dry timber, out of direct sun. Two thin coats beat one heavy one.
- Or leave it
- Teak silvers in sunlight to a soft grey and loses nothing by it. That is a finish, not a fault, and it is reversible with an oil whenever you change your mind.
Frame
- Salt air
- Rinse with fresh water and dry it. Salt left to sit is what gets under a coating; it is the single most useful thing you can do near the coast.
- Marks
- Mild soap, cool water, a soft cloth. No solvent and nothing abrasive.
- A chip
- Touch it up rather than leave it open. Tell us the piece and we will send the matched paint.
Not settledThe coating film thickness and the salt-spray hours are fabricator commitments and neither has been made yet. When they are, they will be published with the name of whoever stands behind them.
Weave and cushions
- Dust
- Brush it off before it is wet. Dust that has been rained on is a stain.
- Washing
- Solution-dyed acrylic takes mild soap and cool water. The covers come off, so a cover can be washed rather than a cushion scrubbed.
- Drying
- Air, on edge, out of direct sun. The foam core is quick-dry, which is what lets a cushion be left out in a shower rather than carried in.
- Colour
- The colour is in the fibre rather than printed on it, which is why a solution dyed weave holds its tone in Gulf sun where a piece-dyed one goes chalky.
Through the season
The furniture is drawn for a Gulf year: full sun, salt air and the summer. Through the hottest months, cushions keep their colour longer indoors or under cover, and the frames and timber are content where they stand.
- Direct sun
- Made for it. The weave is solution-dyed and the timber is oil-sealed; the timber will silver in Gulf sun unless it is re-oiled, and that is a decision rather than a fault.
- Rain and humidity
- Fine. Let a cushion dry on edge rather than flat, so the water leaves the way it came in.
- Sand and dust storms
- Brush first, rinse second. In that order, every time.
If something goes wrong
The range is built to be repaired rather than replaced: the cushions lift out and the covers come off. A worn cover is a cover, not a module.
Tell the studio what happened and we will tell you which part it is.
Not settledWhich parts are held as spares, and for how long after a range closes, is a commitment the fabricator makes at tender.
Materials
What it is made of, and what is not settled
The register names every finish and marks the 18 nobody has held yet. The frame alloy is absent on purpose: steel and aluminium are being quoted in parallel and nothing has been chosen.
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