Advice on replacing wood

Take a piece of the wood to your local lumber yard or home improvement store to see what the size is. It looks like it may be 1" x 3".

Home depot and Lowes will both cut wood slats for you.

Take one of the slats to Home Depot and Lowes... and they can help you

Oh so easy!!!

Take a representative slat to HD or Lowes, locate the lumber you need and they will cut anything without a diagonal. Look at the savings you have racked up.

Hi Loretta, hope this gets your chairs looking , I also added how to keep them nice.

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Measure the length of the garden bench slats and the width of each with a tape measure. Purchase 4-inch-long, 1/4-inch bolts with nuts for attaching the new slats. Remove the nuts and bolts that secure the center slats to the garden bench, using a pair of vise grips and a flathead screwdriver.

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Looking at that wood, it does not look to bad to me. Why not try and sand the old wood first and add new stain and polyurethane.

These pictures do not show the undersides or insides of the slats of wood, where it could very likely be disintegrating beyond the point where the pieces can be saved.

From a safety viewpoint, I would say it is best to replace these slats rather than trying to repair or rejuvenate them.

Hello there,

Buy Hardwood and cut to lengths to fit and secure in the same manner as original timbers. Not cheap, but worth it, or if wood is in good order - Use a Garden Wood treatment or use a Coloured Wax. Best wishes

If the wood looks like it's in good condition all the way around, you might just clean it up with some deck cleaner and stain them. Deck cleaner is surprisingly effective. Finding replacement slats with the specific shapes might be tricky unless you're a woodworker and can recreate them.

Make sure the base (metal parts) are not rusted and if they are they need to be cleaned up and painted first then remove the old wood and replace with new wood and you could stain the wood or paint it. A marine paint will hold up well outdoors

You can get wood slats at the homecenter. Only thing to remember they will be flat and not bowed like the originals

You can buy slats at Homedepot

I would sand and stain the existing wood if it isn't rotted or in bad shape. It may be hard to get wood that will bend into the perfect shape for those chairs.

Here's a post that might help - https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/outdoor-spaces/how-to-maintain-and-repair-your-outdoor-furniture

Hello Loretta, measure the wood and take a picture of the chairs then head to your local home improvement store, ask their expert to assist you in getting the coarct size and type of wood you will need. You may even be able to replace it with a composite which will last longer You could also just refinish it, looks like the wood is in good shape

I would just use traditional outdoor wood (cedar, redwood, white oak, cypress, ipe), or you can use a cheaper wood and exterior paint.

Measur the slats get the same size wood and measure the length cut and screw in and keep doing that till all cover

Take a representative slat to HD or Lowes, locate the lumber you need and they will cut anything without a diagonal. Look at the savings you have racked up.

Hi there,

Buy Hardwood slates!