Cleaning Your Teak Garden Furniture

As the unpredictable British weather starts to improve it’s about that time that you decide to dust off the teak patio furniture, removing it from its winter hibernating spot and set it back up in your garden or patio. As we all know your outdoor teak garden furniture can be prone to either getting dirty, developing lichen or generally looking a bit worn. Hopefully this guide will give you a few pointers as to how you could spend a bit of time and effort (and some elbow grease!) in cleaning and treating your teak garden furniture to give it that well deserved refresh.

We will be the first to admit that our own personal teak garden furniture tends to go very much unloved, which we know is not a very good example to set, but we are hopeful that this guide will show you that with a little wash and scrub, your teak garden furniture can be transformed and look as good as new again.

To help with this guide we have used one of our own square teak coffee tables, which is approximately 4-5 years old, to show what results you can achieve. This piece of teak patio furniture has never been cleaned before and as you can see, it has naturally weathered into the silvery/grey finish that some customers prefer. As you will see, you can get that golden finish back again if so desired. We have put a piece of tape down the middle of the garden coffee table so that you can see the progress being made compared to the original condition.

Firstly, we took a bucket of warm water and washing up liquid and using a scrubbing brush we have firstly cleaned the teak table top to remove any built up dirt, grease or mould.

We have then rinsed this with clean water and allowed the teak table to dry naturally. As you can see, there is already a considerable difference just from a simple clean. At this point you have a couple of options. Once the teak garden furniture is clean and fully dry, you could take your chosen teak care product and apply it accordingly to help protect your teak garden furniture. 

In the above photo we have applied some teak oil to the cleaned side of our table to bring it back to its former glory! It is not a difficult task but if you take a bit of time and care you can bring your dirty furniture back to life!! Get scrubbing!!