Depending on the weather conditions, wood needs a decent polish at least once a year. We would recommend to do this before Spring and before Winter, if your furniture is outside the whole year round. Pick one of those humid, cloudy days, as it is better for the moisture level in the wood to dry out slowly after cleaning.
Assembly Hopper picnic
1. Remove the lid of the box. The packaging material must stay intact for the rest of the assembly!
2. Remove the four screws from the two boards that prevent the table legs from moving during transport. Fold down the cardboard flaps to have better access to the legs. Take them out the box and position them as shown in the drawing (depending on the size of the table).
3. Put the lid back on the box.
4. Put the 2 boards mentioned in step 2 on top of the lid.
5. Put the tabletop with its frame facing downwards on top of the two boards. The top of the legs are now at the same height as the tabletop.
6. Position the legs to the tabletop.
With galvanized legs
7a. Put 3 bolts M10x30 in the square holes of each table leg. Screw the supplied nuts and spring washers onto the threaded rods, but do not tighten them yet.
With powder coated legs
7b. Screw the supplied nuts and spring washers into the threaded rods, but do not tighten them yet. Tighten carefully! Excessive force may damage the coating!
8. Before assembling the benches, remove the packaging material from under the frame!
9. Go to backrest assembly instructions if you want to assemble a backrest. Fasten the bench to the legs as shown in the drawings a & b. Now tighten all the nuts.
With galvanized legs
10a. Put 2 bolts M10x30 in the square holes of each table leg. Screw the supplied nuts and spring washers onto the threaded rods.
With powder coated legs
10b. Screw the supplied nuts and spring washers into the threaded rods.
