Garden furniture - why so expensive?!

B and Q is 20% off online at the moment. I discovered this by accident.
I went in on Sunday to have a look and really liked a wooden set with cushions in there that was £495 (denia)
some discussion was had in store over whether I’d fit the box in my mini so we decided to have it delivered instead. Went to order and found the 20% all over their site. Paid £396 including delivery.

i bought a very cheap rattan set when we moved in 5 years ago. It’s ok, but it’s not especially comfortable. My daughter in law bought the B&Q one last summer and I knew from sitting in their garden that it was really comfortable. If you can get out there and test all the better.

Cute set on Aldi £199

www.aldi.co.uk/gardenline-rattan-dining-set/p/726532721670700

My Aldi double egg hanging chair is my favourite piece of garden furniture. Think sits sold out at the moment though.

We have a decent set by Kettler. Sofa, dining table, two armchairs and two stools. 11 years old, furniture left outside uncovered all year, cushions are regularly drenched by unexpected rain but do come in for the winter or longer periods of rain. In essence it’s almost as good as new and has certainly been more hard wearing than any indoor furniture we’ve ever had.

In the summer our garden is the best room in the house so I’m glad we made the investment.

We just had this delivered on Monday and for the price the quality is fantastic

I got this from Home Bargains £50

John Lewis' own brand will still be manufactured at the same place as the stuff in The Range. If its by Keter then they manufacturer stuff in the UK (as well as Benelux and Middle East)

I love my plastic rattan crap. Had it 10 years and still perfect. Cushions not so much as I stupidly forgot about them over winter so need to replace but so much less effort than the previous wooden set that lasted 5 years and needed sanding, staining etc.

It's still expensive for what it is.

I spent £1400 on some outdoor furniture from John Lewis (their own brand). It's lasted 10 years and looks as good as new expect for one little strand that's broken on a corner.

£140 per year doesn't seem so bad.

UK made furniture like that would typically come straight from the factory, so very little warehousing and not much shipping cost really. More of the cost will be on labour and materials. More or less the opposite for furniture from china and the net price to you can end up being similar. Shipping and warehousing costs are largely based on the physical volume a product takes up in shipping containers. Non-flatpack furniture takes up a fair bit of space. Even more if it's not stackable.

Wait until the end of summer when all the garden centres start to make space for Xmas, they always heavily discount garden furniture

Isn't teak from the rainforest or somewhere similarly unsustainable?

I blame Love Island

Goes lovely with the plastic grass

Ebay. We bought a gorgeous teak garden table and chairs, woh cushions and parasol for a few hundred. It's a big table and beautiful quaility.

We got our wooden furniture from here adamsteak.co.uk/

Delivered no fuss and quickly. Cheaper than elsewhere but looked exactly the same.

We bought a sturdy locally made pub table/ bench, wasn't expensive and will definitely last

Have a look at Aldi. I got a small set recently, two grey wicker egg chairs with cushions and a little table for under £100. B&M have some good deals too.

Those plastic rattan sets are unbelievably expensive considering how much they cost to manufacture! (I used to work in this industry)

The markup is ridiculous

I got some of ours on Groupon really cheaply. This is peak time to buy though and peak prices.

We bought this when we moved in 6 years ago. We have not looked after it (not storing it in the shed during the winter) and it’s fine. It needs a good clean but then it’ll be good as new again.

We spent weeks trawling around garden centres thinking we had a decent budget at £1k for something we'll probably use 10-20 times per year but no, barely anything under £3k. We did eventually stumble across the Supremo range which seem well made, sturdy and looked great (photo on link doesn't do it justice). Bit annoyed as we paid pushed the budget and paid £1349 a couple of weeks ago and have just seen it's reduced to £999 today but hey ho, at least I love it and we've already used it 3 times 🙂
https://www.hayesgardenworld.co.uk/product/supremo-livorno-garden-dining-set-six-seater-rectangular-160x90cm-granite-effect-table-top

I bought some "plastic rattan crap" about five years ago and it doesn't have a mark on it. Unlike other "weatherproof" furniture we've had before which required a lot of maintenance. It's brilliant.

Asda George usually have some decently priced ones:

https://direct.asda.com/george/outdoor-garden/garden-sofa-dining-sets/jakarta-linen-6-piece-garden-sofa-dining-set/BUN633,default,pd.html?cgid=D33M02G01C04

I got a Hartman aluminium set 18 months ago in the autumn sales for £500 at Homebase, the same one was £1800.00 last summer. It is brilliant, the cushions are waterproof although I do have a cover and brought them inside over winter. We left the frame outside and it just needed a wipe before we started to use this year. The end 2 seats recline. Took a bit of elbow grease to assemble it though.