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Office Economics: Repair, Refinish or Refurbish Office Furniture

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 For about a third of the cost of buying new, it is an economical update to the outdated furnishings.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