My late mother's house has a three-piece suite from circa 1950. Feather-filled cushions, horse hair filling on the main body, professionally re-covered a few times. Hardly highly combustible, but obviously hasn't got a certificate of flame retardance or whatever they have these days. What's the chance of a charity taking it, or is it an inevitable candidate for the skip?
Close to zero I would guess...
Unless you can sell it privately.
All you can do with one of those is get it re-upholstered WITH a certificate.
Its worth doing if the frames are comfortable and sound
Unlikely, since they can't easily retail it.
Your best bet's probably freecycling it or putting it into an auction.
If it's that old -- auction house?
Wonder if the Fire Brigade (if you have one near you) would take it for "practice"?! :-)
J.
it's less than that - it's exactly zero
they can't even use it to donate to a deserving family
tim
AS I understand it, charities are not allowed to sell without the flame retardance cert. Age Concern *definitely* can't.
Not without a flame label.
It's tip fodder.
Or keep it until November.
Owain
Imagine the odds of buying a pasty from Greggs that is hot and then multiply that by the odds of the Pope being a Jew.
Been there recently. They just look for the label. No label - no thanks.
Andy
there's an exception for "antiques"
but the OP's isn't old enough
tim
That bloke on Salvage hunters frequently buys stuff like that and sells it for a fortune. Send them a picky.
Thanks for all the opinions. I'm afraid it's for the skip. Actually, I'll contact the council and get them to come and collect it, as the settee is far too big for me to manage, and even the chairs would difficult. Pity, really; it's fundamentally much better quality than stuff you get today.
Freecycle.
But....I've just googled for the regulations (should have done it earlier. Doh!), and they don't apply to furniture made before 1950. Now I don't know the exact date of mfr but it must be about then. I doubt there's a date anywhere (not looked yet), but it might be palmed off as pre 1950 without too much difficulty!
They did that on TV recently. It cost £1,250 for a settee alone and they hadn't found a buyer by the time of broadcast.
On 12/05/2016 09:11, Nightjar > Its worth doing if the frames are comfortable and sound
I saw that programme, or at least it was on whilst I did something else. I was impressed by the chandelier made out of old fluorescent tubes. I thought that was worth much more than the £95 it was sold for, whilst I wouldn't have given the sofa house room, let alone have paid £1250+.
" The Regulations do not apply to furniture intended for export and furniture manufactured prior to 1950."
I doubt the local Trading Standards are sufficiently knowledgeable date 70 year old three piece suites to the nearest decade
michael adams
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Didn't see whatever programme you're referring to, but found this which looks more like a Gatling gun than a chandelier ...
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