Rattan Furniture
Your Home and Garden Rattan Furniture Maintenance:
Looking After Your Own Outdoor Rattan Garden Household Furniture
Normal Routine Regular Rattan Care
To perform a routine cleaning on your rattan pieces, all you simply require is some washing up liquid, water, a bowl, delicate cloth, and toothbrush. First step is to add a few drops of the washing up liquid to the bowl, then fill with water to make a good amount of bubbles on the water surface. Now heres the important bit, next take the cloth and use it to collect the bubbles only, do not wet the cloth with the water. Now carefully, taking extra care not to scrub the rattan, use the slightly damp cloth to wipe, you should make sure not to over wet the furniture. With the main areas taken care of, here comes those harder spots. Again only using the bubbles and making sure the brush is not too hard, getting into the hard to reach places on your furniture to remove stuck dust and dirt. Allow your furniture to air dry or set it under the sun, and repeat this every week for best results.
In Depth Washing
Above we addressed the regular upkeep of the furniture, which is great for a quick fix, still, thorough cleaning should be done once every year. Why should I do this as well? I hear you ask, well this clean is now geared towards more than just getting the cobwebs off the furniture, here we are looking to remove stains, and re-seal your rattan furniture using a protective coat of lacquer or shellac. You can use the same technique for mixing the cleaning solution as in routine cleaning, only this time your looking to scrub that surface a little harder than before and this time also add a bit of water into the cleaning but again not completely soaking the cloth. The rattan surface will be more deeply cleaned, as such it should also be a lot wetter than it usually does in routine cleanings. Best way here is, make sure you do your thorough cleaning when the day is sunny, warm and dry. Alternatively, you can use a hot hair dryer to dry the rattan surface effectively.
Making sure that the item of furniture is fully dry, next step is to reapply the pieces of furniture with a treatment of lacquer or shellac on the rattan surface, to seal and supply further protection to the furniture exterior through to the following thorough cleaning up in the following year.