steam_mill

and if you are wearing synthetic clothing, humid or not, you will be surprised how much static the Costco chairs build up. Especially fun zapping children or the wife and saying it was an accident!

That alone is worth the price of admission.

911boy

Exactly. Restaurants are trying to eliminate plastic straws and bottled water is frowned on...how can people buy plastic Muskoka chairs and plastic decking? Plastic is far from maintenance free.....stains, discolours etc.

BIG smoke

and still funny, 100 times later....

#1SomeGuy

My trex decking has required zero maintenance except a pressure wash now and then...the cedar railings on the other hand need constant attention. We also have plastic seating, left out year round, looks the same as the day we bought it, again no maintenance. Oh, and it's made from 100% recycled plastic.

LastMezger

Carbon Fibre with Wood Accents: https://bpfabdesign.com/

Greg981

Timbertech deck here for 8 years, after 20 years of owning a cedar deck which was constant work. Todays cedar is garbage. Grows too fast and is cut to young. Has lost most of what made it good for outdoors. My out door chairs are plastic. 8 years outside all year round. No work, no fading. No stains. Power wash every spring and looks like new again. Don't judge.

Oh and an unnecessary drive for pleasure does great things for the environment which we all do.

BIG smoke

X2 - today's cedar is crap. Its short, filled with knots, bowed, and split. If I have to do a dock in cedar. I go and pick my own. Or I order an extra 25%, pick the best, and return the unused.
I love my 8 year old Costco chairs. White, sure. A little spray nine, and they are as new. My deck is almost 20 year old Trex. My 120 foot dock is 18 years old and almost as new. I already have too much maintenance.A few items that i don't need to replace or fix? Easy choice for me.
Drink beer, don't stain.

Swerveskip

+1 for CR Plastics

JimV8

Don’t forget the Muskoka Chair Company, out of Port Carling. You can’t get more Muskoka than that.

Matt Lane

Thanks again guys, great suggestions.

I learned a bit more about the COSTCO chairs (which I would have been happy with in the first place). They are made by Leisure Line Canada.

The COSTCO version assembly is based on a thin hollow centering pin, with screws directly into the plastic (with and without pilot holes). In my experience, they quickly stripped and made no sense as the horizontal load bearing point.

The same company has the same chair, in a folding version, that uses all through-bolts and nuts. Same material, but a logical assembly method. I believe only one panel uses self tapping screws - the rest are stainless bolts through predrilled holes.

I'll wait/hang on for these in 2021 at Home Depot. The COSTCO versions, when you see the assembly, are a few bucks cheaper but not really comparable IMO.

Cheers

Matt