Sometimes the best item of wicker outdoor furniture will fail you and will not last more than a few seasons. The reason for this is that wicker cannot withstand the ravages of weather including heat, cold and rain. Hot weather can lead to the fibres baking up and then drying out and becoming brittle. On the other hand moisture will help to loosen up the glue and make the wicker warp.

To ensure that your expensive favourite wicker outdoor furniture lasts you many seasons a new breed of such furniture is being offered to the buying public - the all weather wicker outdoor furniture.

New Generation

This new generation of wicker outdoor furniture is assured of remaining free from warps and brittleness and it is worth checking out these items of all weather wicker outdoor furniture. The addition of polyethylene resin fibres into wicker outdoor furniture ensures strength in the frame and weather resistant properties as well.

The less costly wicker outdoor furniture items have wicker being woven into rattan frames and though the material is natural; it just won't withstand the effects of weather. It is better to opt for all weather wicker outdoor furniture that involves using aluminium or teak or steel frames that are known to not lose their gluey properties, and in addition, aluminium is rust-proof as well. Teak, as we all know, is wood that is very weather resistant.

There is another point of difference between wicker outdoor furniture and all weather wicker outdoor furniture. The former is made from rattan that in turn is a kind of tropical plant; or wicker outdoor furniture can even be made from bamboo.

Neither of these materials have any real weather resistant properties. On the other hand, all weather wicker outdoor furniture are made from resin that is synthetic substance that forms into narrow pieces (vine-like) and looks just like natural material; it also is very weather resistant.

Synthetic wicker outdoor furniture can prove to be the best solution for your outdoor needs. Such types of furniture incorporates different materials and is more than plain wicker; the addition of synthetic materials to wicker outdoor furniture lends weather resistant properties and this makes these types of outdoor furniture more popular and longer lasting.

Using resin wicker in all weather wicker outdoor furniture ensures that the furniture can withstand the effects of weather and certain manufacturers are even claiming that their all weather wicker outdoor furniture can be left outdoors all through the year without any ill effects; they even claim that you can leave such furniture in the outdoors even in the colder northern regions of the world.