How to Weigh Down Patio Furniture (5 Ways)

If you have invested in beautiful patio furniture, the last thing you want is to lose it to harmful weather, especially gusts of wind! Let’s find out how to weigh down patio furniture.

Weighing down patio furniture can be accomplished using furniture weights, purchasing heavier furniture pieces, or anchoring each piece of patio furniture to one another to make wind damage less likely.

Patio furniture not only turns your deck or patio into a great hangout spot, but it also represents an investment in your home. Let’s take a closer look at how to weigh down and secure patio furniture so that investment isn’t wasted when a wind storm comes along!

Ways to Secure Patio Furniture

There is more than one way to make sure your patio furniture is either weighed down or secured against harmful wind gusts! Check out the list below to see a few of the options for keeping your patio furniture safe.

Use Furniture Weights
Fasten Furniture Together
Use Deck Anchors
Purchase Weighty Furniture
Use Heavy Furniture Covers

Let’s take a closer look at each of the options in this list so that you can be sure you’re covered when it comes to learning how to weigh down patio furniture!

Use Furniture Weights

Furniture weights come in several shapes and sizes. The typical structure for a good furniture weight is a type of bag, created to be filled with weighty material and attached to the legs of your patio furniture using the carabiners the weights are sold with.

There are some furniture weights which don’t come with these carabiners, but zip ties work just as well (and sometimes better, depending on the size of your furniture’s legs or arms,) for securing the weights to each piece on your deck.

You can fill furniture weight bags with either water or sand, or even stone dust. The only disadvantage to these bags is, that although they aren’t as gaudy as a trash bag filled with sand, they may not go with the aesthetic look of your furniture.

Fasten Furniture Together

If using weights doesn’t appeal to you, you can always tie your deck furniture together.

When wind storms come through, they tend to damage pieces that are standing alone, easily surrounded and swept away.

The best thing to do is ensure that there is less room for wind gusts to maneuver between furniture, disrupting the chairs, tables, or couches you have decorating the space.

Fabric tie-downs look the nicest, however, for intense wind storms, steel or metal chords are more effective in tying the legs of your furniture together and keeping them stable.

Once all the pieces of furniture on your deck are connected, consider investing in tie-down rings. These can be purchased online using Amazon.com or Ebay.com, or at your local hardware store.

Tie-down rings provide anchors to your deck or patio, so even if the large mass of your tied-together furniture is moved by the wind, it won’t go far!

Use Deck Anchors

Speaking of anchors, the patios that are constructed with wooden slats are often the best for a deck anchor! Deck anchors are created to slide neatly between wooden slats and attach to furniture piece with the use of zip ties.

The downside to deck anchors is that they won’t work for all shapes and sizes of decks or patios. However, if you do happen to own a wooden deck, they are a great option because they’re barely visible without losing effectiveness during a windy day!

Purchase Weighty Furniture

Some deck furniture is designed and built to be lightweight. These types of furniture, usually made from plastic or lighter wicker materials, are great for arranging and rearranging your patio furniture with ease. However, they are susceptible to wind gusts.

One way to remove this problem entirely is to simply buy the less vulnerable, heavier furniture options to decorate your patio. Here are some naturally heavy materials to choose from when selecting patio furniture:

Teak Wood
Wrought Iron
Stone
Concrete

Weighty furniture means more secure furniture. Weigh your options carefully and answer the question: would you prefer furniture you have to manually secure, but can move easily, or furniture that is heavier and less moveable by you and the wind?

Use Heavy Furniture Covers

If you do decide to go ahead and buy patio furniture that isn’t heavy on its own, that is quite all right! You can always add weight, not just by furniture weights, but by using heavy furniture covers.

Heavy furniture covers are usually made to prevent the weather patterns that can harm furniture, like rain, hail, and snow. However, they also double as weights.

Just be sure to secure your furniture covers according to what the manufacturer recommends in the directions booklet that comes with the product.

This is because one of the disadvantages to the heavy furniture cover option is that wind can sneak under improperly installed covers and use it to actually sweep the furniture away more easily than if it were uncovered!

Be sure to consider each of these options for securing your patio furniture carefully and decide which suits your style of decoration the best.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Here are some frequently asked questions related to how to weigh down patio furniture!

How Do I Keep My Patio Furniture From Sliding?

Patio furniture can be kept from sliding by keeping it secured against the wind. This can be done by considering the weight of your furniture or by tying it to a type of anchor.

The wind moves masses, like lightweight patio furniture, causing them to slide. However, if you weigh your furniture down using furniture weights or weather covers, the wind may have a harder time sliding the patio furniture.

How Do You Secure Patio Furniture to Concrete?

Purchase and install concrete rings, which drill down into the concrete. Then, loop a cable, chain, or even bungee chord through the ring. Fasten the ends of this securing object to the frame or leg of your patio furniture to secure it to the concrete!

How Do You Keep Porch Chairs From Sliding?

Porch chairs can be kept from sliding in much the same way that other patio furniture items can! First, consider the material the porch chair is made from.

If you have a wicker or plastic porch chair, it is likely too light to resist the wind, and will need furniture weights or to be anchored to the porch itself.

However, if you have porch chairs constructed of teak wood or cast iron or other heavy materials, sometimes all it takes to keep them from sliding is to tie them together using chords or fabric ties. This way, the wind will not be able to slide your porch chairs around!

Conclusion

Patio furniture can be secured against the wind in a variety of ways. The most effective is to weigh it down. Sometimes a patio furniture piece will weigh enough on its own, especially if it is constructed of heavy wood, like teak, or heavy metal, like cast iron.

However, most often, patio furniture will need to be anchored either to other pieces of furniture or down into the deck or patio itself using furniture anchors. If this option doesn’t appeal to you, invest in furniture weight bags, or simply tie your patio furniture together to prevent wind damage!

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How to Weigh Down Patio Furniture (5 Ways)