Quality ALWAYS Has A Value
I’ll relay a story told by one of our customers last week.
They recently built a new deck on the back of their house and used some of the very nice (and expensive) synthetic deck material. BIG deck, all the amenities, and a price tag to go with it-over $8500. Well, it must have shot the budget because they went to one of the big box stores to get their outdoor furniture. It seems they were a little less than us. The furniture looked nice and they were happy-until the first big rainfall. You probably remember the rain this spring. It seemed like it was every day for about two weeks. Well, it finally quit and the sun came out. One morning they noticed a few brown spots around some of the chairs. Turns out it was rust from inside the legs. These inexpensive chairs were made from a poor quality of steel and must have had virtually no protective coatings on them. When they moved the chairs, nasty brown water virtually poured from the chairs. Their inexpensive steel chairs were now in the process of rusting out after only a few weeks and their deck had stains on them that they are still trying to get off.
$8500 deck. $500 set of cheap steel furniture. A permanent reminder of a temporary savings.
We would be happy to guide you through the easy process of avoiding this. — Max
Telescope Casual Furniture
You may have noticed on our main web page, or maybe you saw an earlier blog from Kathy, that Eastgate Pools just bought Telescope Casual’s entire Chicago Merchandise Mart showroom. You might ask yourself, why was it for sale? Well, it’s a pretty easy answer. It’s the beginning of show season for casual furniture manufacturers, with the first of two yearly trade shows being scheduled the week after July 4th. Casual furniture retailers from all over the USA will converge on Chicago to check out the very latest in styles and colors. Leading manufacturers, such as Telescope, like to make sure that their showroom is fresh and new every year. As such, it is out with the old, which is really still pretty new, and in with the really, really new. Cleaning out their showroom in June also gives Telescope a chance to clean the carpet and paint the walls prior to the new product being delivered and setup.
What does this mean to the casual furniture shopper? That’s simple. Great prices on great Telescope furniture! With an over 100 year tradition, Telescope is known for producing furniture that is comfortable, stylish, and long lasting. When you put these Telescope qualities together, you have value, and when you add in the fact that you can save 45% off of Telescope’s price index on this special buyout furniture, you have tremendous values. From our previous experience buying the showroom, we know that the sets go fast. So if you want to experience Telescope Casual furniture at greatly reduced prices, stop in and see us.
Preparing Your Outdoor Furniture For Spring
The calendar says it is spring, and hopefully Mother Nature gets the message soon and doesn’t allow winter to return for a long time! For many of us, spring means getting our casual furniture sets uncovered or out of the shed, garage or basement. Depending on how it was stored, and how motivated we were last fall, it probably could use a good cleaning. In this blog, I am going to talk about cleaning sling furniture, as I have sling furniture at home, and it is far and away the most common type of furniture.
Sling furniture is so easy to clean, especially with the right cleaner. At the start of each season, I move my chairs and chaise lounges out to a sunny area and spray them down with the garden hose. While they are still wet, I use my special weapon on them, which is Feron’s 1 For All Cleaner, which is also known as Feronclean. (I used to use just soap and water until I noticed that the thin white stripes in the sling material had become thin gray stripes over the years. Soap and water wasn’t doing the job as well as I had thought.) I let the Feronclean sit for several minutes, and then I lightly scrub the sling with a soft bristled scrub brush. With a rinse and a wipe down to dry, the job is finished and my white stripes are white again.
I learned from experience how well Feronclean works, and in the years that Eastgate Pools has carried this product, we have heard many stories similar to mine about how well it works. Of all of the products in our furniture accessory department, Feronclean is the one that is most requested by name. (Legal stuff: read product label before using)
