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Plumbs upholstery.

Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
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Has anyone experience of Plumbs upholstery service. Not for loose covers, for proper fixed upholstery work? 
Were you satisfied with the quality of their fabric?
I have just bought a second hand sofa and am looking to have it reupholstered and would be interested in some opinions.
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I haven’t used them for years,  but did some time ago,  I wanted heavy cotton chintz covers made for a 3 piece suite,  they bought a book of sample material and they were beautifully made,  I washed them many times. 
    Maybe you could phone them and see if they still do that service. 
    I don’t know if they do a renovation service. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My friend used them years ago and was very pleased with the results. They do still carry out reupholster work by the looks of it.

     https://www.plumbs.co.uk/reupholstery/reupholster-any-brand-style/
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s good,  not many companies still in business from that far back,  they must still be good,  remember when they started out with those stretch nylon covers. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The locksmiths we use has been in business in Leicester since 1717. That’s the year not the time.
    Rutland, England
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Thanks for your comments. My memory of them also goes back to when they first started up and the dreadful stretch nylon loose covers with the pulled threads where they been caught by something, and they always seemed to be baggy. I have been to their web site, looks quite impressive now but that does not necessarily mean anything.
    At the moment I am waiting for a charity to collect my old sofa, if they decide to take it. No fire hazard label, no go, must be in English, if too worn in the drivers opinion, no go, etc.
    My sister has just had several items refused. The one item she thought would be refused was taken!

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same with my daughter,  Joyce,  she lives in St Austell.  Poor area, there’s a warehouse that takes furniture for the homeless,  she had 2 nice two-seater sofas,  they said they were too old and refused them,  she hadn’t had them long! off to the dump they went! 
    I can understand that people these days want all new but to set up these homes for street people,  I thought they would be glad of anything decent. 

    Plumbs come to your house with samples and photographs,  maybe see if there’s a reviews site on the net. 
    There could be someone local with a small business making loose covers,  Facebook or local paper. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Hi Lyn, I also live in St Austell and the council will be my next port of call if the charity people refuse my sofa.
    We would have been so grateful, when we married, of the choice of goods available free or cheap. We used two upturned wooden tea chests as bedside tables for several years, The carpet left down in our first house used to lift off the floor when it was windy! and my grandmother's old Put u Up sofa was our guest bed for years before we  bought a replacement
    The very first meal I cooked on the Baby Belling left in the house, only 2 of the 3 solid top plates worked, was stuffed marrow which we had to eat sitting on the floor. We didn't have a washing machine or fridge until I stopped work when pregnant and emptied my bank account to buy a twin tub, a fridge and a vacuum cleaner. I thought I was in heaven, no more hand washing sheets etc by hand every Sat. in the kitchen sink. Not a time I would want to return to but it didn't do us any harm.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Those days have gone now Joyce.
    The warehouse place was on the road going towards Holmbush,  just before Tesco. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2023
    It is illegal for the charities to take furniture that doesn’t have the current fire regulation ls labelling. 

    Sadly some people try to offload dangerous furniture onto the charities rather than pay for it to be properly and safely  disposed of. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Lyn said:
    Those days have gone now Joyce.
    The warehouse place was on the road going towards Holmbush,  just before Tesco. 
    I will check. I think it is now a Bookers wholesale warehouse, I know there is also a Julian Foye furnishers along there as well. I did go in for a nosey many years ago, I felt I should have paid to wipe my feet on entering. There was also a place in Par, they had a bad fire a few years ago so not sure if they are back. There is a council place in Bodmin, haven't bothered to go that far yet.
    There was also a huge timber/building merchants on that site which is now a Lidl and also a very large Cancer Care furniture depot/retail shop.
    Progress.

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