We all like to extend the summer months as long as possible, but the time does eventually come when we aren’t using our garden furniture anymore and it needs to be covered over and protected, ready for next year. Protecting your garden furniture will extend the lifespan of your investment, ensuring it looks great and feels comfortable and provides style and luxury in your outdoor space for many years to come. But there are a couple of major options for how you choose to protect your garden furniture, and here we have considered the pros and cons.
The storage shed
Many people have a storage shed in the garden which is used to store many things including garden furniture. But it is also often used for storing tools and equipment such as lawnmowers, hedge trimmers and garden hoses, and items used in the garden such as external paint, stain and varnish. Storage sheds also store items such as kids’ play equipment – paddling pools, games, balls, bicycles – and inevitably also become a storage location for items from inside the home. An external storage shed provides a convenient location that is very much ‘out of sight, out of mind’ and hence is a magnet for anything inside the home that you no longer need inside the home, plus items such as car cleaning equipment, and car items such as oil and antifreeze.
For this reason, storage sheds often become a disorderly mess with several items stored on top of each other and which makes the shed very hard to access. This can routinely become an exercise in almost completely emptying the shed to locate what you need, and hence the shed becomes a nuisance. Furthermore, sheds also suffer from a lack of attention when they are stored outside. A traditional shed would be wooden, but these can now be metal or plastic, while newer storage methods are available such as top-loading storage boxes. Either way, these are not always robust and well maintained, and hence can generate leaks which can start to damage items stored inside them.
Garden furniture covers
Covers for your garden furniture can include:
These are supplied in a variety of sizes but can also be supplied made to measure, to ensure you have the exact size for your storage item. These garden covers enable your items to remain located in situ over winter. The covers can be supplied as 500 denier premium strong quality waterproof polyester fabric covers, or 750 denier deluxe stronger breathable and UV stabilised polyester fabric covers.
All the garden furniture covers supplied by Bags & Covers Direct have sealed seams, eyelets and drawcords and a cord lock for ensuring your garden furniture remains covered throughout the harsh weather of winter.
The advantages of garden furniture covers over a storage shed
There are many reasons why garden furniture covers are the preferable option compared to a storage shed, for protecting your garden furniture over winter and for the long term:
- Price – Individual covers for your garden furniture are much more cost-effective than investing in a storage shed large enough to accommodate all your garden furniture, as well as all the items listed above.
- Flexibility – Your storage needs may change, and you can easily buy more garden furniture covers to meet these needs, but you don’t want to buy a new or larger shed each year.
- Location – All your garden furniture can stay where it is in the garden and doesn’t need to be moved.
- Protection – Garden furniture covers are designed to protect your items year after year, whereas your storage shed could develop leaks and is not designed to store several miscellaneous items on top of each other. Hence items can become damaged.
- Accessible – Once the winter weather has gone, your garden furniture is easy to access and you can quickly remove the covers and start using your garden furniture straight away.
Of course, storage sheds have their purpose and are useful for storing a host of household and outdoor items, but the most effective way to protect your garden furniture and ensure you get comfort and value for money from your investment, is to protect these items with garden furniture covers from Bags & Covers Direct.