The deck that eats furniture
Buy nothing yetMove the table before you buy the pergola.
Before you buy a pergola, move the table.
Every change below is put into the plan and the whole model is run again. That is why a pergola's winter cost shows up here without anybody having written it down, and why the cheapest thing that actually buys hours back is allowed to win.
Reading at
Where it stands now
Something left out here
The outdoor sofa is on the edge for leaving things out over a year here, and hours of surface heat is why.
“Tight” means the use is borderline, or a reading is already past its own limit. The controlling limit is named below.
Past the limit Hours of surface heat is about 8h — 3h over (at most 5h)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.
The surface here passes 113°F for about 8 hours, peaking near 150°F. That is the number that matters for bare feet, paws and anything resting on it.
Heat cycling opens joints, lifts finishes and warps boards.
Close to the limit How long it stays wet is about 13h — 1h over (at most 12h)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.
An outdoor cushion soaked here in Jan would not dry before nightfall.
Repeated wetting with slow drying is what actually destroys outdoor things, far more than rainfall totals.
What would change this. This would change if hours of surface heat were measured and came out differently. The figure is an estimate, not a tape.
Confidence low (43%). Treat this as a starting hypothesis, not an answer.
What this answer was built from
- Use
- Something left out here
- Place
- The outdoor sofa
- Weather
- Hot and humid, long cooling season (scenario shape) (from a published source)
- Method
- Twelve representative days across the year, read at the month that punishes hardest