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You will find some helpful and suprising information about why you want your patio, outdoor and garden furniture made with Western Red Cedar.
As beautiful Western Red Cedar is for patio and outdoor furniture, it has many additional qualities adding exceptional value as the choice wood for this type furniture. Please let me highlight some great advantages inherent in Western Cedar.
Cedar is a lightweight stable wood that lies flat and will stay straight. This means cedar resists the natural tendency of checking and cracking as you often find in many species of wood.
Red Cedar's natural insulating quality creates furniture that does not absorb heat very well. You will find this very comforting when you relax in your furniture on a hot day!
The natural oils in Western Red Cedar give the wood it's wonderful fragrance among several other valuable qualities. These same oils help the wood resist rotting due to natural bacterial and fungal action. These rot resistant qualities make Cedar one of the best choices for use in wet environments, decks, hot tubs, saunas. This is an exceptionally strong wood even though it is very light weight. Some tests reveal that Cedar has up to 80% of the strength of Oak!
Cedar has several advantages over other furniture materials.
Look at the material options for your patio, outdoor, garden furniture.
Plastic and Resin furniture will discolor, warp, weaken and get blown around on a windy day. Metal furniture is heavy, cold or hot, and can rust leading to other unwanted damage around your home. Many types of wood require Chemical treatments, (CCA = Copper, Chromium and Arsenic) There is enough chemicals in this process that wood treated with CCA requires warning labels! Cedar's natural oils protect the wood so it does not require preservatives and chemicals to be added to give the wood long life. Western Cedar furniture does not sag, or loose strength, is heavy enough not to get blown around, does not rust and does not absorb much heat. With some care, your furniture will last for a very long time. You can see that Cedar has many desirable qualities.
