White Patio Chairs

full-time-mum

Anyone have a good trick for getting white patio chairs white again?

I've tried cif and bleach with limited success so I think that I'm in need of some help please.

Thanks

absolutebounder

full-time-mum wrote: »

Anyone have a good trick for getting white patio chairs white again?

I've tried cif and bleach with limited success so I think that I'm in need of some help please.

Thanks

Dulux gloss should do the trick

Primrose

I don't think painting is really a good idea as ideally you would need to rub the chairs down first to get the paint to adhere and if it starts peeling off it looks awful. We have a white patio table & chairs and it is constant exposure to sunlight which tends to make them go yellow. We learned the hard way with a previous set of white garden furniture. Now we try to be disciplined and cover them up in bright sunshine and when they're not actually in use with one of those green waterproof covers made for the purpose. This has made a marked difference and after 3 years they're still as white as when we first bought them. If you want to avoid the problem altogether I wonder whether the various green or grey/green stain colours you use for fencing would turn them into a different colour. You would have to experiment on a hidden underside area first and seek advice from the manufacturers as to whether a stain would work permanently on plastic. There may be a special white stain you can use for plastic - Googling this query might produce some answers.

Primrose

A few other suggestions here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=415671
Looks like you're not the only one who's had this problem.

full-time-mum

absolutebounder wrote: »

Dulux gloss should do the trick

Whoops. Maybe I should have mentioned that they are plastic.

skintchick

I can;t get mine clean at all - considered using Plastikote paint and making them a darker colour, think other people have had success with this.

I even tried bleach but it's not like a stain, it's more like the plastic discolours.

full-time-mum

skintchick wrote: »

I even tried bleach but it's not like a stain, it's more like the plastic discolours.

Its not yellowing more 'muddy' marks where they got left outside over winter and the rain sat on them.

full-time-mum

Primrose wrote: »

A few other suggestions here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=415671
Looks like you're not the only one who's had this problem.

I'm going to give soda crystals and astonish a go.

MrsA1939

full-time-mum wrote: »

Anyone have a good trick for getting white patio chairs white again?

I've tried cif and bleach with limited success so I think that I'm in need of some help please.

Thanks

What about REVIVE power paste, it claims to clean most everything, including garden furniture

tryingreallyhard_2

Mr T's plastic cleaner (green bottle, can't remember the proper name of it, sorry) is very good at getting white plastic clean, works well on uPVC windows as well.
HTH

skintchick

full-time-mum wrote: »

Its not yellowing more 'muddy' marks where they got left outside over winter and the rain sat on them.

Mine is grey/black marks but it's still discolouring rather than a stain. Hope you manage to get it off anyway.