If you're planning to purchase furniture for your patio, consider not getting a glass topped table. They look thick, but they're also breakable. If someone were to lose their footing and fall upon it, it would be a horrible accident that might could have been prevented.
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And let me say that glass will also shatter after enough heat and sun. We had a nice big THICK glass tabletop that went with our patio furniture. It only lasted for 4 years.
We were sitting in our living room one evening and we heard something just shatter and drop to the deck. We looked outside and the glass top shattered into a MILLION peices. Each piece was no bigger than a garden pea! It was a major mess! I was disappointed that it lasted no longer than that.
Also, unlike regular tabletops, glass tabletops are hard to keep clean. With a regular top, you can just wipe it off with a damp cloth or sponge, but your glass top will be streaked unless you use glass cleaner and a dry cloth to polish it up.
I think the glass topped tables are very attractive but I wouldn't think very practical. I've never had one; however I have small children so figure it wouldn't be a wise choice. I also have enough work to do so I wouldn't want to clean a glass top. We have the resin table and chairs and those do require some maintenance as well but not that much. Usually my hubby gives them a cleaning with his power washer once a year and then it's just an occasional wiping off.
I have had 2 glass top tables that have broken all on their own. The first one was in a room of our house for the winter. It had been there for about 3 months with nothing sitting on it and no temperature change. In the middle of the night, I woke my husband and told him I thought someone was in the house--turned out it was making a lot of noise before it went crashing. It looked like popcorn popping all over the carpet.
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