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Office Economics: Repair, Refinish or Refurbish Office Furniture

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 For about a third of the cost of buying new, it is an economical update to the outdated furnishings.

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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.

How To Repair Leather Chairs And Renew Leather Furniture

Leather furniture is prized for it's durability and regal look.  Unfortunately, leather, while strong, is not resistant to staining or tearing. 

Especially because repairing leather furniture can be pricey, it's important to have

the leather furniture professionally repaired.  There are, however, several things you can to to prevent the destruction of  your valued leather armchair or leather ottoman...

1. Be sure to maintain the leather.  Periodically, use a good leather conditioner to re-introduce moisture to the skin to keep it from cracking.

2. Leather that is exposed to the elements should be treated with a preservative or leather treatment.  

3. Stained leather can be cleaned professionally.  Suede can be cleaned by using a suede brush, but it cannot be washed like other clothing. Some dry spray-on agents can help to remove dirt and improve the color of your suede, but generally, it's best to keep suede away form heavily soiled situations.

4.Small scratches in leather can be removed using leather conditioner.  This will also make the leather supple and smooth and can remove imperfections that result from dryness. 

5. Don't use shoe polish.  The last thing you'd want is for the shoe polish to rub off onto light colored clothes.  That's one thing that truly would be negative idea...

To keep leather furniture looking it's best, be sure to clean the leather periodically as well as condition the leather periodically.  Preventative maintenance is much less expensive in the long run. 

Of course, if you have additional questions, or a more extensive repair concern, call the experts at JC Wood...