Custom Picnic Table Covers

What This Is A custom picnic table cover is a waterproof cover that goes on when the eating is done, measured from your own table and its benches. A picnic table gets used in bursts: a cookout, a birthday, one warm weekend, then weeks with nobody sitting at it. The cover is for those weeks. Verified Purchase Your money will fly away in the wind with this cover “This one was way too big and the company changed the fastener straps.” Read the full review Why Do Universal Picnic Table Covers Never Fit? Universal picnic table covers are sold by a label: 4 seat, 8 seat, 6 ft, 8 ft. None of those labels measures the benches or the legs, and those are what decide the fit. A picnic table has three sizes at once: the tabletop, the benches on either side of it, and the legs, which splay wider at the ground than at the top. Two tables sold as 8 seats can differ in all three. Cut a cover to the tabletop and it stops short above the seats, so the bench ends soak. Cut it to the outer edge of the benches and the middle sags into a dish that collects rain. One buyer's cover was sold as an 8 ft picnic table cover. It arrived way too big for the table it was bought for, the straps holding the slack down tore within weeks, and it ended up bunched underneath. The number on the package counts the diners. Did anyone measure the table? What Does a Picnic Table Cover Protect Against? A picnic table cover keeps rain, frost, sun, birds and falling leaves off the bare wood of the tabletop, the benches and the legs. Most picnic tables are pine, and it suffers most in the wet months between one summer and the next. Rain in the Grain Rain finds every slat gap and soaks into the cut end of each board. Bare pine stays wet for days after a shower, long after the top looks dry. Green on the Slats Damp, shaded slats grow a green film of algae, and moss follows in the gaps. The benches go first, because they sit lowest and dry last. Frost in the Timber Water held in the end grain freezes and expands overnight. Each thaw leaves the splits a little wider, and the next rain gets further in. Sun on the Tabletop The tabletop takes the full sun all summer. The wood dries out, turns silver-gray and opens fine cracks along the grain. Birds Overhead A picnic table under a tree is a perch with a target underneath. Droppings land on the one surface you eat from and bake on hard in the sun. Leaves and Sap Leaves, seeds and sap drop between the boards and stay there. Packed in wet, they hold water against the wood all winter. Which Picnic Table Do You Have? Which Picnic Table Do You Have? The instant quote tool has four picnic table shapes: rectangle with attached benches, rectangle with detached benches, hexagon and round. The measuring guide switches with whichever you pick. If none of the four is yours, contact us with photos of the table and its measurements. A patio dining table with separate chairs is a job for our outdoor table covers. Rectangle (Attached Benches) The classic park picnic table: a long table with a bench on each side, all attached to the same A-frame legs. The guide takes the total length and depth, the depth of the tabletop and the seat height, so the cover steps down from the table to the seats. Rectangle (Detached Benches) A table with two freestanding benches on their own legs, pushed in either side. Measure the three pieces as they stand when you want them covered, and one cover goes over all of them. Hexagon A six-sided top with a bench along every side. It is measured point to point across the benches and across the top, with the width of one side and the spread of the legs at the base. Round A round top with four curved benches spaced around it and gaps between them. The guide takes the full diameter, the diameter of the top on its own, the diagonal across the benches and the drop from seat to tabletop. What Happens to an Uncovered Picnic Table? Left bare, a picnic table shows its age where water sits longest: the board ends, the seats and the bolts. Algae on the Tabletop Rotten Bench Seat Split End Grain Rust from the Bolts Bird Droppings Silvered and Flaking How Is This Picnic Table Cover Different? 01 Made to Your Table's Measurements Your table sets the shape: the tabletop and the step down to each bench. For a cover that stops below the seats or reaches the ground, add that to the notes in the instant quote tool. A parasol hole can go wherever yours is. Production waits for your sign-off on the design. See how the design service works. 02 No Way In for Rain Every seam is protected by our HydroLok® seam sealing: each one is stitched, then sealed on the inside, which keeps rain out where the panels join. The fabric is just as waterproof. NylonSafe® is a premium waterproof fabric for home and light commercial use. PVCArmour® is heavy-duty, for exposed sites and commercial use. Compare the two fabrics. 03 Held Down Under the Benches The standard tie-down is a drawstring hem. It cinches tight under the benches. Want it fastened to the table itself? Choose snap buckle straps that fasten underneath the tabletop. On a rectangular or hexagonal table, elasticated corners are another way to get a snug hem. 04 Dry Underneath, Off in One Lift The tabletop is the first thing the sun finds, so the fabric is UV-stabilized to stand up to it. Vents let damp air out, so the slats underneath dry between showers instead of staying wet. The EZ handles built into the vents lift the cover clear of the benches in one go, and it stows in the duffel bag it comes with. More on the built-in features. When Do You Need a Custom Picnic Table Cover? Some picnic tables are worth a cover made just for them and some aren't. You'll know which one you're sitting at. Focused on Longevity This cover is right for you if: Your picnic table never leaves the backyard or the deck The last cover you bought stopped short of the bench ends or collected rain in a dip in the middle Your table is hexagonal, round or comes with freestanding benches, and nothing sold by seat count fits it Focused on Immediacy You don't need this if: Your picnic table is plastic and folds flat into the garage once summer ends You want a tablecloth to eat on, not a cover for when you are done You need something over it by Saturday and a loose fit will do