Hammock Chair with Malaga XXL Lunatta Stand

Maintenance of Our Products

In terms of maintenance, the hanging chair hammock can easily be removed from the wooden bar to be machine washed at 40°C. It is important to wash the seat of the chair at least once a year, especially if you use it outdoors.

The metal support is not made of stainless material. From experience (we are 4 km from the Atlantic in our beautiful Landes region with a marine climate), we have found that it requires maintenance after 2 to 3 years. The maintenance is very simple: a single coat of "Hammerite" paint, which you can easily find in hardware stores. And it's good for another 3 to 4 years!

How is the strength of a hammock or hanging chair calculated?

You may have noticed that we provide the number of cords present in the arms of the hammock. For example, this model has 52 cords in total (26 cords on each side), each with a resistance of 16 kg. It should be noted that when we say 16 kg resistance, it is because we have conducted tests and this cord’s breaking point is actually 32 kg. The safety rule for hammocks is to divide the breaking point of a product by 2. This is why you sometimes see photos on our product sheets showing tests with considerable weights in our hammocks. Indeed, we have never managed to break one of our hammocks during a test!

Similarly, a 2mm diameter cord can have a resistance of 16 kg, while another of the same diameter may only have 5 kg. The strength of a single thread is important. Everything depends on the quality of the thread used. The more resistant it is, the more expensive it is (let's not forget that the hammock is a heavy product and the cost of the raw material used has a big impact on its final price). Likewise, the manufacturing technique also matters: thread density per meter and twisting technique.

In our Colombian manufacturing, the cord that makes up the arms of the hammock is traditionally called "Piola Curican". It is made with 3 strands. Each strand is twisted in one direction, and when the three are assembled together, they are twisted in the opposite direction. That is why when a customer brings us a hammock that is ten years old or even much older and is at the end of its life, we sometimes recover the cords from the arms to use later for repairs!

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An Adaptable Hanging Chair

For hanging chair enthusiasts, don’t forget that you can also install it individually under a tree, on a balcony, around a beam, or even directly on the ceiling of a room! For this, a "rope and S-hook" kit will do the job perfectly: Our hanging chair fixings