Best protection for outdoor wooden furniture: Top preservatives

Offering exceptional coverage for garden furniture, Rust-Oleum has a selection of 110 elegant colours to give tired pieces the once over. There’s no need to sand, prime, topcoat, wax or varnish: simply pry open a tin and apply the colour to your chosen furniture for mould and algae resistance as well as protection from the weather.

The brand claims one treatment will guard your pieces for up to six years. What’s more, the matte finish is washable and scrubable, so easy to keep clean on an ad-hoc basis.