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How do you maintain a wooden rooftop pergola together with its trellis panels and wooden planter claddings?
On a roof terrace, sun and wind dry out not only the main pergola beams but even faster the thin slats of trellis panels and wooden planter claddings. Cleaning and re-varnishing all the woodwork together keeps the timber protected.
A landscaped roof terrace or penthouse often includes not just a wooden pergola, but also wooden trellis screens along the railings for privacy and wind protection, as well as timber-clad planters. Because trellis slats and shading louvres are thin and have many edges, the sun dries them out even faster than the main beams.
On this roof terrace, both louvred wooden pergolas, the covered walkway to the door, the perimeter trellis panels along the railings and the timber-clad planters were cleaned and re-varnished together.
Maintaining all the rooftop woodwork before the timber turns grey and splits lets the varnish nourish the wood evenly, protecting it against rain, sun and plant watering.
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