Metal Benches Versus Wood Benches – A Buyers Guide

Metal benches are often the best option for both traditional and commercial landscapes. For rural parks, university campuses, and quiet settings near public buildings, bench colors and designs can be ordered that closely approximate the color and texture of wood.  For more dynamic commercial landscapes, as well as many historical restoration projects, metal designs offer superb compliments to modern architecture, landscape elements, and restored historical buildings.  Treated metal used to make these benches also features a vandal resistance that makes them the only viable procurement option in places where criminal mischief is frequent.  They are also, by nature, more weather resistant than even the best treated wood.

Public landscapes often call for outdoor furniture that compliments the mood of the setting. In corporate environments, minimalism, mathematical symmetry, and a less-is-more approach to vegetation are used to establish an objective state of mind that supports the professionalism of life within the office building.  Several types of metal benches provide ideal compliments to this type of setting.  Offered in a wide range of unique and traditional colors, they allow facility managers to not only accent the soft-scapes around the building, but also to compliment the building itself with outdoor furniture whose designs directly correlate to architectural motifs.  This is equally true for historical and municipal landscapes that often feature period architecture, formal architecture, or a deliberate return to classicism.  Wrought iron benches and various other bench models offer landscape architects a number of designs that compliment elegant columns, Victorian, or Edwardian building architecture.  There are also designs that embody the moods and sentiments of mid-20^th Century building design and civil engineering.

Metal benches are also the more durable of the two choices in comparison to wood. Wood will eventually give way to the elements even when it is treated for weather resistance.  UV sunlight during hot summers, preceded and followed by heavy rains in the spring and fall, and ultimately followed by freezing snow and ice in winter will eventually alter the appearance of wood and diminish its integrity.  Galvanized or powder coated metal, on the other hand, can endure any of these weather extremes without corroding, cracking, or buckling.  Metal is even tougher when coated with Thermoplastic.  This UV resistant, weather resistant coating is also highly resistant to impact.  It is strong enough to withstand many deliberate attempts at vandalism.  Even if it is damaged by cutting, it is easy and cost effective to repair with a heat gun.

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