wife wants some Adirondack chairs for the backyard

Polywood goat if you only want to buy them once.

If you want wood buy (or build) ones made from teak.

I have a poly gliding bench. that thing will probably last forever.

I really want a Pollywood high top table set, hoping to find a sale one day

Someone posted the polloywood chairs 1/2 off a while back. Bought two but wish I would’ve got a few more

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Poly holds up to our climate much better than real wood. You will be buying again in a few years if you go wood.

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Quality teak will do 20+ years on a beach in that salty humid environment. I didn't suggest it but even better than teak is Ipe. That will outlive your children and likely polywood.

Wood is an amazing building product but you have to match the wood to the use. Often the best wood for the job is expensive.

Woot.com often puts Adirondack chairs up for sale.
Example of a wooden one for sale now.

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And right about at 20 years you should be finished paying the loan you took out to pay for teak furniture

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Nobody said pimping was easy... or cheap.

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Quality teak will do 20+ years on a beach in that salty humid environment. I didn't suggest it but even better than teak is Ipe. That will outlive your children and likely polywood.

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Ipe is the best. Cumaru is a decent alternative. I work for one of the largest hardwood importers in the country. True Burmese Teak is unaffordable and almost nonexistent. Myanmar is on the list our government won’t let us buy from because their military overthrew their publicly elected government. The cheapest teak I have I’m selling to distributors for $35 BF. Coverboards for yachts are selling for $100 BF. 99% of this countries Spanish Cedar is imported out of Africa today. We are only getting in 2-3 containers of it a month so supply is tight. I sell a lot of Cedar into the Louisiana market, but I think that African is inferior to the South American we imported for the bulk of my career and I wouldn’t use that species for something that’s 100% exposed to the elements. Now Ipe we have plenty of. That stuff has a Class A fire rating, density of water, and pretty much impervious to insects. It’s so hard you can’t even drive a nail through it. Ipe by far is the best outdoor wooden furniture species on this planet and second place is not close. That stuff will last 40 years or more even if you don’t stain or paint it sitting directly in the elements day after day year after year.

We have some made out of Eucalyptus wood and they have held up extremely well, outside, on covered porch, for over 10 yrs.

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