Here’s some suggestion on salvaging and repairing furniture WOOD PIECES White spots or a cloudy film might develop on furniture that has gotten damp. To take away the spots: If the whole surface is affected, rub with a damp cloth dipped in turpentine or even camphorated oil, or in a solution of one half cup household ammonia and one half cup water. Clean dry at once and polish with buff or furniture polish. If color is not restored, dip 3/0 steel wool in oil (boiled linseed, olive, mineral or lemon). Rub calmly with the wood grain. Wipe with a supple cloth and re-wax. VENEERED FURNITURE Wood veneered furniture is typically not worth the cost and attempt of repair, except it has great monetary or sentimental value. If veneer is loose in just a few places you might be able to repair it. Carefully rub glue under loose areas. Press veneer back in place. Place wax paper over pretentious area and heat with warm iron. Remove iron and put weights on area. If veneering doesn’t wait in place or is bubbled, cautiously slit the loose veneer with a shaver blade and apply good glue. Ask for counsel at the hardware store. Cover the glued spots with wax paper and then put something heavy over the area while the glue dries. WET FURNITURE If your insurance allows incomplete reimbursement for flood-damaged furniture, it may be valuable to relate the money to new furniture, rather than give for extensive repairs.
Following are few excellent tips for your outdoor furniture:
Keep it simple: For minimum preservation, choose furniture made of easy-to-clean materials. Wrought iron and aluminum are high-quality choices
Go light: Pastels and light colors are apt to maintain their color over time better than darker shades. If your furniture is not confined by a roof or awning, choose light-colored fabric to reduce fading.
Prevent stains: Keep some distance between your furniture and nearby foliage and trees. The bark and oils from positive trees (oak, palm, hickory and other nut trees, for example) can stain. Using fade- and stain-resistant fabrics on chair cushions also helps.
Clean carefully: Use a force washer (keep the setting low) to get rid of caked-on dirt on PVC or wrought-iron furniture; a moist cloth to wipe off legs and bases of metal chairs and tables; and a soft brush, with a combination of mild soap and warm water, to spotless cushions and seating areas. Bleach is too harsh and usually should be avoided. If necessary to take away mildew stains, use a well-diluted solution of bleach and water.
Protect: Wood furniture needs additional care to maintain. For teak furniture, concern oil designed for treating teak. For all other woods, use a polyurethane-based wax made particularly for outdoor durability. Protect metals from rising rust by polishing them with wax.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The winners of Cooper Lighting’s 29th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition were documented at the recent Light fair International Show in Las Vegas. Four professional winners and six student awards were obtainable. Entries were judged on the blending of aesthetics, imaginative achievement and technical performance, and the degree in which lighting met the scheme constraints and design concept goals.
In the Professional Category, top honors go to Donald Gallegos, IES of ASCG Inc. of New Mexico, for the lighting design of the Dulce Health Care Facility in Dulce, NM. In addition, Michael K. Souter, FASID, IALD, LC and Suzanne N. Massoud, Associate IALD, EIT of Laminate Souter Associates, LLC, San Francisco, CA won for a San Francisco home named House of Borrowed Light. For additional information, visit www.cooperlighting.com
In an action that shoots from the fatal Seton Hall University fire of Jan. 19, 2000, the Assembly commonly passed a bill that will need all public and private colleges and residential schools to have only fire-retardant furniture in dormitories, classrooms and public places. Couches and other furniture wedged fire in the public area on the third floor of Boland Hall at Seton Hall in South Orange, serving to produce flames and smoke, which killed three students and injured dozens of others. “Unfortunately, the furniture purchased by many of New Jersey’s colleges and universities is not fire- resistant,” said Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), a prime sponsor of the measure. “Our institutions of higher education should be required to take fire safety into greater consideration when furnishing students’ dormito ries and classrooms.”
• The grill is always the center of mind in any indoor or outdoor kitchen, so it’s best to place your grill downwind, far from the nearest door to the house. This would keep smoke away from your house. Keep a clear path to the fridge for quick, easy trips.
• Be weather-aware. Grills might be building to withstand weather, but not all you need for your outdoor kitchen would be. Use only appliances and electrical fixtures built for outdoor use, and use-weather-resistant building materials.
• Determine how frequently you plan to have gatherings so you could decide how much to spend on your outdoor kitchen. Quality gas grills could go for less than $500 or as much as thousands of dollars. Choose what’s right for you.
• Do not get caught in the dark (or left out in the cold). In addition to lighting your kitchen work space, brighten up the backyard as well. Refer to outdoor-lighting ratings and lighting plans to get it right. Stay warm on cold nights with a patio heater.
HOUSTON — A fire started in a resident’s shed and extends to a furniture store next door, officials told KPRC Local 2.
Officials said the three-alarm fire ongoing around 8:30 a.m. on Hawkins Street near Airline Drive in northwest Harris County. Investigators said the fire spread quickly and shattered everything inside the furniture store.
Officials said the shed was filled with tools and other individual items. There was no electrical wiring inside the shed.Officials said they had to bring in water as there was limited water on hand in the area.Officials are investigating the fire to determine a cause.No injury was reported.
They paid for furniture but got no delivery and no repayment.The store is called Furnico located at 1500 south 700 west in Salt Lake City with several locations in Utah and Colorado.
Inside those stores is supposedly furniture already paid for by customers but they can not get to it or get their money back. We conventional dozens of complaints; the state got hundreds from people left with no sofa or pool table after Furnico closed its doors.
It looks like you might be left empty handed.The first of this month, Furnico filed chapter-7 insolvency which means liquidation of assets to pay creditors. It’s unknown if any customers would be able to claim the money owed them.
Furniture Store Furnico, L.L.C., owner Ming Xiao, has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy protection. If granted, assets would be liquidated to help pay creditors. It’s unclear if any customers owed for undelivered furniture would be able to get any of their money backed.
The case number is: 06-21916
Bangladesh for the first time would take part in the International Furniture Fair Tokyo (IFFT)-2006 to be seized in November this year, reports UNB.
Seven local furniture-producing companies would exhibit their products in the four-day fair, beginning on November 22 at Tokyo International Exhibition Centre.
The participating companies are Akhter Furniture Ltd, Hatil Complex, Legacy Furniture, Jalal Furniture Ltd, Brothers Furniture Ltd, Partex Furniture Ltd and Pacific Furniture Ltd.
Vice-chairman of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) Mir Shahabuddin Mohammad told UNB that it is for the first time the home furniture makers are going to partake in any international trade fair. “We’ve decided to do so to open up a window to our entrepreneurs,” he said.
The EPB vice-chairman expects that the participating companies will be able to discover international market for their products through the fair.
“They (participants) would also be able to know the quality of products, designs, international pricing and buyers’ demand,” he added
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain — About 280 representatives from 60 manufacturers, retailers, financial groups and even trade publications and associations meet here for the first World Furniture Congress last month.
The event brought industry officials from 40 countries jointly to discuss ways to improved cooperate and share information in an increasingly global furniture industry.
It also resulted in an offer from Jack Chen, president of the Council of Asia Pacific Furniture Assns., to create a World Furniture Organization by Aug. 1. The group will be made up of industry associations devoted to fostering international communication and cooperation.
Chen also speaks about the importance of integrating global resources, preserving raw materials and requires exchanging the latest technological information.
More World Furniture Congress events are anticipated, with dates and places to be announced later.
Six teenagers were struck by lightning and killed while listened to radio commentary of a World Cup soccer match, officials in India said today.
Seven soccer fans were group around a radio in their hut listening as Argentina beat Serbia-Montenegro 6-0 on Friday.But a massive thunder-storm began and a bolt of lightning hit the tin roof of the hut in the isolated village of Kesar in West Bengal state, said Pravat Misra, the district magistrate.
All seven were banged unconscious and six died on the way to hospital. The condition of the existing teenager was not immediately known.
