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Posted By Jennifer Hiller Hi
I have been asked to goto a respite centre where relatives of clients who have died have donated furniture. I know the law regarding furniture for fire risistance but has anyone got any hints on how to assess if they are fire resistant if there is no label?
Thanks Jen
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Posted By Lilian McCartney Hi Jen,
we get a few offers as wellbut not very many. Due to this, we work on the no label can't take basis.
Could get fire proofing when they are being cleaned?
Lilian
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Posted By Robert K Lewis Jennifer
If there is no label it must be assumed to be not to standard and therefore cannot be re-supplied. You would need full re-upholstering to bring it into compliance as I do not think retardant treatments comply - but I stand to be corrected.
Bob
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Posted By J Knight Hi Jennifer,
I would agree with both previous posts, and add something else I heard from the horse's mouth (Rumpus as Horse Employed as Trading Standards Officer). A TSO from a metropolitan council in northern England took a sofa away from a shop, and subjected it to a standard match test, it failed and the shop owner was prosecuted; the sofa was labelled and the shop-owner had bought it in good faith. The standard though isn't that the furniture should carry a label, it is that a particular standard should be met. All the label says, at best, is that a piece of furniture of similar design and construction has passed a particular test under certain conditions, it doesn't say anything about the particular item it is attached to.
You can't win, sometimes,
John
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Posted By warderic No label, dump it.
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