While patio furniture makers know of the dangers of bird poops, they do commonly treat the materials with a coating to repel moisture, stains, and mildew. Solid vinyl, vinyl mesh, and even specialty materials (which offer faux straw or thatch styles) are found more for commercial products. Most patio umbrellas are made from treated acrylic fabrics, while canvas is found on most luxury patio furniture umbrellas. To know how best to clean bird poop off your patio umbrella, you need to first know what fabrics and materials you will be cleaning as that will then determine which cleaning products will be best suited. As we’ve mentioned, stains are treatable if cleaned regularly but the majority of patio umbrella owners will leave their untreated for those stains to permanently cause marks. In most cases, it is just one or two birds that most frequent our gardens that leave their calling cards on our umbrellas.

The reality is that it doesn’t take a flock of birds to ruin a patio umbrella’s fabric top. Some people hardly give a second thought to the bird poop on their patio umbrella, only for it to permanently stain and spoil their umbrella’s fabric top. For them eating the abundance of fruit, seeds, berries, and bugs during summer means that we’ll be cleaning bird poop off from our patio umbrella.Įveryone that owns patio furniture both loves and hates bird droppings on their patio umbrellas: they hate it because it leaves unsightly stains on the fabric, yet at the same time they are relieved that the umbrella shielded them from the dive-bombing bird and its poop. As much as we love that, so do the birds flying above our heads. Summers are for enjoying lazy mornings and relaxing afternoons outdoors.

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