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If I can provide any sort of warning.....do NOT buy wicker or pseudo wicker patio furniture. Complete waste of money.....especially when it only looks like wicker but is some weird plastic strips around thin metal. Patio furniture is expensive enough no need to replace it every 3 years. Plus when it starts to fall apart it leaves a damn mess.

Pollywood, composite or aluminum seems to be the go to. I do not have Pollywood (look it up and you will see why) but the aluminum seems to work well. Its lightweight, doesn't hold heat and suffers weather better.

I also have a wrought iron table which seems to hold up ok....it does require some spray painting every few years or so.

Glass is completely out due to the wind over here.

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Following on this theme....

Finding a damn decent hose reel is hard...


Home Depot has an aluminum line called Gorilla that is great

https://www.homedepot.com/s/gorilla%20h ... eel?NCNI-5

They also make great step ladders for around the house....it looks like they have increased their prices on these significantly.

https://www.homedepot.com/s/gorilla%20s ... ers?NCNI-5

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I hate wicker with a passion.
We have aluminum or Pollywood patio furniture. The pollywood we got through our credit card points for “free”.

I hear you on hose reels. The cheap ones always flip and fall apart. But I won’t pay a lot for a hose reel.

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Yeah, the plastic ones break after one year - the plastic becomes brittle and falls apart. Never had one that I didn't want to throw away after one year.

And the cheap ones use o-rings made of the most brittle, bullshit rubber ever. It's like you get one chance to tighten that hose to how you want it forever, because if you loosen or tighten it, that fucker is going to leak like Niagara Falls. Turn on the water and you're soaked.

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Well...those Aluminum Gorilla hose reels are the shit! You will pay for it....but hose reels are pricey anyways. Take my advice and steer away from the 4 wheel ones....they are huge and impossible to wheel around.

This one is great:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Gorilla-200 ... /314465282

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