Posted by Jim Sutter on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 @ 04:42 PM
Hard working offices can wind up with office furnishings being 
overlooked. When you come to the office every day, sometimes the extent of wear on office furnishings may go unnoticed. Even with normal daily use, office furniture winds up missing paint chips, office cabinets get nicked, cubical panels get scuffs, office chairs get nicks, wooden desks suffer dings, dents or tears. This means that your office furniture could look less than polished.
As facilities manager, it’s your role to ensure office furnishings look professional.
Whether the goal is to protect new furniture, or to refinish or refurbish furniture your facilities management tasks can be daunting. Refinishing office furnishings, re-upholstering, repainting furniture, laminate work (including post-formed laminate edges), textile cleaning, and touch-up, repair and restoration services are all important maintenance tasks to prolong the life of office furnishings.
Cleaning, repair and refurbishing office furnishings is a smart, cost-effective strategy that has the advantage of re-using existing furniture and making it appear like new. Whether its a scratch touched up on a desktop, a tear in the upholstery repaired or elevator cab walls retouched the concept of preserving furnishings and prolonging their useful life can make a big difference in annual budgets.
Some of the components of an effective office furnishing maintenance program include:
Reupholstering furniture
An updated look without having to spend on new furniture? Consider reupholstering. Today’s large selection of fabrics ranges from contemporary to traditional. For about a third of the cost of buying new, it is an economical update to the outdated furnishings.
Wood working, refinishing
 wood furniture
Older furniture can be updated by giving it a facelift. If it is wooden office furniture such as office desks and chairs, and it is a pleasing design, there is no reason to replace it. Small minor repairs such as replacing a missing piece of trim or mending a broken corner, or larger projects like matching a piece to your current furniture are easily accomplished and can save over the cost of buying new.
Upholstery cleaning, Fabric protection
Office panels, office chairs, and cubical panels and can become musty, faded, worn, torn, dusty or stale. Furniture is a major investment for any company. To get your moneys worth the condition should be evaluated periodically and either repaired or replaced by a knowledgeable service provider.
At JC Wood, we understand that your office furniture is an expression of your professionalism. It’s important that your office presents a clean, attractive and appealing environment to visitors. Having a specialist who can help maintain your investment in office furnishings winds up being less expensive in the long run than buying new furniture to replace worn or tired or broken office furnishings. We can provide ongoing service for office furniture - to make the facilities manager look like a real hero.
Posted by Jim Sutter on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 @ 10:08 AM
Redecorating can make us critical of the wood furniture we own... But before you decide to toss that old worn and scratched wooden 
table, you may want to give it a new life by having it refinished.
Decor changes, such as deciding to renovate and update colors are an inexpensive way to breath new life into old furniture.
Sprucing up an accent piece can revitalize and give a whole different look and feel to a room. By sprucing, what we mean is to refinish furniture or refurbish furniture to give it a whole different feeling.
Wood furniture can be stripped and refinished to the natural beauty of the wood, or colored with a fashionable accent stain. Washes and glazes add dimension to wood, and colored wood stains can be either natural colors or enhance colors in transparant that let the grain show through the wood, or opaque, where the resulting finish is a solid color.
Unlike do it yourself results, which sometimes have a tacky, sticky feeling, professionally refinished furniture is lustrous and resistant to weather related fluctuations. In fact, there are special treatments for different situations and conditions that can extend the life of your furniture. For example, marine situations are exposed to water and possibly salt, and the finishes will be more durable for wood furniture exposed to these conditions than the finish applied to a delicate antique that will reside in a climate controlled and air conditioned environment.
Bottom line, though - it's much less expensive to have your existing furniture refinish done by a professional, and have many more years to enjoy using it, than to buy new. Plus, with the exciting new colors and finishes, you wind up with unique, quality pieces that are matched to your taste and color scheme.