Custom Outdoor Rocking Chair Covers

What This Is A custom outdoor rocking chair cover is a waterproof cover built around one rocking chair, from the top of its back to the tips of its runners. Rocking chairs rarely come indoors. They are heavy, awkward to carry through a door, and they look right where they are. So they stay out through every season, and the weather has years to work on them. For the table, the sofa and the other chairs out there with it, browse our patio furniture and leisure covers. Verified Purchase Horrible fit “According to the size on this site, this cover should go all the way to the floor, and it does not.” Read the full review Why Do Universal Rocking Chair Covers Never Fit? Because they come in a few set sizes, and rocking chairs come in far more shapes than that. One reviewer measured her rocking chair at 45 inches high, 32 deep and 20 wide, then ordered the size that should have reached the floor. As the photo shows, it stops well short, leaves the runners and lower legs bare, and sits so loose that a good wind could blow it away. That happens because rocking chairs vary from one model to the next. Backs are tall or short, upright or leaning. Runners stick out a little past the legs, or a long way. A cover made in two or three set sizes fits the few models it was designed around, and leaves the rest short and loose. A cover can be the right size on the label and still not fit your rocking chair. What Does a Rocking Chair Cover Protect Against? Most damage to a bare rocking chair starts where water can sit: on the flat arm tops, in the joints and at the tips of the runners. Sun, frost, birds and blown leaves do the rest. Sun on the Arms The flat tops of the arms face the sky all day. The sun bleaches the stain or paint there first. Then the grain dries out and opens into fine cracks. Rain at the Runners The runners are the only part of the chair that touches the ground. Their tips are end grain, and end grain soaks up standing water like a wick. Damp in the Joints Every spindle and leg is set into a joint, and rain finds all of them. Water sits in a joint long after the surface has dried, and the timber around it goes soft. Frost in the Cracks Water that gets into a cracked finish freezes on a cold night. The ice prises the crack wider, and the next thaw lets more water in. Birds and Pollen A porch rocker often sits under the eaves or beside a tree. Pollen dusts the seat, and bird droppings land on the arms and etch the finish if they stay. Leaves in the Slats Wind carries leaves and grit into the gaps between the slats and spindles. Packed in there, they keep the wood damp and stain it dark. Where Does Your Rocking Chair Sit? On a covered porch, a rocking chair is out of the rain that falls straight down. It still gets the rain the wind drives in under the roof, and the low evening sun. On an open deck, a patio or a lawn, it gets everything. Where it sits decides which of our two fabrics to choose. On a covered porch, NylonSafe®, our waterproof fabric for home and light commercial use, is plenty. On an open deck, a lawn or a roof terrace, go for PVCArmour®, the heavy-duty fabric for exposed sites. Traditional slatted porch rockers, high-back rockers and rocking Adirondacks, in wood, wicker, metal or resin, all measure the same way, with the one rocking chair measuring guide. If your chair does not rock, see our outdoor chair covers. What Happens to an Uncovered Rocking Chair? What two or three winters outside do to a rocking chair with nothing over it. Faded Arm Rotting Runner Mildew on the Wood Peeling Paint Bird Droppings Mouldy Cushion How Is This Rocking Chair Cover Different? 01 Made Down to the Runners We make the cover from your measurements: the width across the runners, their length from tip to tip, and how tall the chair stands at the back. You see the design before we make anything, and nothing is cut until you say yes. Read how the design service works. 02 Sealed Seams, Not Just Waterproof Fabric A waterproof fabric only keeps the rain out if the seams do too. Every seam is a HydroLok® sealed seam, stitched and then sealed on the inside so water cannot get through the seam lines. Covers in both fabrics, NylonSafe® and PVCArmour®, have HydroLok® sealed seams. 03 Stays Put in the Wind The standard tie-down is a drawstring hem. It pulls the bottom of the cover in round the runners, so the wind has no loose edge to get under. Choose snap buckles that clip round the legs to keep the cover on the chair, or eyelets for securing it to the chair or anything sturdy nearby. 04 Built for Years Outside Both fabrics are UV-stabilised. Vents let moist air out, so damp does not sit against the timber underneath. EZ handles, grab handles built into the vent structure, make it quick to lift the cover off when you want to use the chair. Once it is off, it packs into a duffel bag. Every feature is listed under built-in features. When Do You Need a Custom Rocking Chair Cover? A custom rocking chair cover makes most sense for rockers that spend the winter outside and are meant to last. Focused on Longevity This cover is right for you if: Your rocking chairs stay out on the porch, deck or patio all year A universal cover has left the runners bare, ballooned round the back or blown off You own good wooden rockers, or a matched pair, that you want to keep for years Focused on Immediacy You don't need this if: Your rocking chairs come indoors or into a shed for the winter They sit under a deep roof that rain and sun never reach You want a quick throw-over for a week or two, and the fit hardly matters