The first warm weekend is when most people find out what winter did to their furniture, and by then the spring calendar is filling. Walk through these six checks in March instead of Memorial Day weekend and you will know exactly what to ask for while there are still dates open. It takes about ten minutes for a full terrace. Before you start Wait for a dry day after the last hard freeze. If the furniture is wrapped and you have booked a spring reset, we take the wrap off, wash everything down and walk you through what it needs, so you can skip ahead to the last section. If you are taking a wrap off yourself, cut it away from the furniture rather than toward it, and let everything dry for a day before you judge the colour. Wet teak always looks darker than it is. 1. Colour: silver, dark, or stained Even silver-grey is weathering, and it does no harm. A darker, uneven tone across a whole piece is usually years of oxidation and dirt. Scattered black dots are usually mildew. Here is a quick test: wipe a small spot with a damp white cloth. Mildew smears off onto the cloth, and oxidation does not move. Watch for leaf-shaped marks, dark rings or patches where something sat all winter. That
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