Higher ratedRanked #2 in Best Outdoor Rugs
Ruggable Outdoor Ranier Dark Wood Rug (8' x 10' Rug + Pad System)4.7
2 sourcesall derived$499Good Housekeeping's Textiles Lab named the Ranier its best overall outdoor rug and The Spruce named it best washable, and both awards rest on the same two-piece design: a printed polyester cover that peels off a nonslip pad and goes through a domestic washer. Ruggable's own specification puts the Flatwoven cover at 2 mm over a 1/8-inch pad, which is why it slides under doors that defeat thicker rugs. The washing is genuinely useful and genuinely awkward — The Spruce recommends doing it once at the end of a season and scrubbing your machine afterwards. Day to day, a hose and spot cleaner do the job. It is the pick for a patio shared with dogs and children rather than the pick for the most punishing weather.
Strengths
- — The printed face layer unclips from the pad and goes into a home washing machine
- — Ruggable specifies the Flatwoven cover as a 2 mm low-pile system with a waterproof barrier behind the stain-resistant face
- — The nonslip pad is only 1/8 in thick, so the assembled rug clears low door clearances
Watch-outs
- — After The Spruce washed a season's worth of debris out of it, their machine "smelled like an aquarium" and the drum was coated in grit
- — Good Housekeeping needed two people to line the cover up on the pad without bumps and bubbles
- — The 8-by-10 pad ships as multiple pieces you assemble yourself
