diesel_jim wrote:

We've got a sofa and table in the garden. Aluminium frame with drop in wood type composite stuff. It's not "plastic", and not pure wood. I've tried searching but can't find what the stuff is.

The top coating is getting a bit tatty so I was looking to see if they could be re-coated or laminated (the wood stuff, not the ali frames)
Don't really want to paint them as they have a nice textured surface.

Anyone got any ideas?

TIA

I tried to find a photo of what me and my dad did a couple of years ago now.
He had this patio set, that was wood, and with some sort of Iron frame. They must have had it 20 years, Anyway the table rotted to bits, a long with two chairs. Only one large chair just say survived. Anyway, me and my dad had rebuilt a small piece of fence, for under £50. My dad said i wonder if we could use the fence wood for the table and chairs, So we did. Came just under £80. All we did was replicate the size and holes, and then sand the roughness right off. Put some fancy bolts and washers in, and a couple of pieces of thread bar, for support. We rebuilt the full patio set better than it was, when they 1st bought it. The table we made a little longer, than it was originally. So that's an option for you  Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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