Sofa - Skin problems - Watchdog

Oct 14, 2008 6 Replies

The programme showed a sofa having the bottom hessian stuff removed to expose a sachet of the harmful stuff.



In view of this I was wondering about checking a couple of leather settees that my daughter has. Does anyone know if removing the sachet of fungicide is sufficient? She isn't experiencing a problem - but I am thinking better safe than sorry.



Is it worth doing?


(Apologies if this appears twice. It didn't appear on my Outlook)


It DID appear first time .

Suggestion, you (and others who can't see their own posts) could always check in Google Groups, e.g.

(Even if it is detested for various reasons, this is a function it performs quite well most of the time.)

One of the few virtues of Google Groups .!!

If the sofa has become saturated with the fungicide then I don't think just removing the sachet would be a safe long-term solution. I don't know how long it takes for symptoms to appear but if they are fairly new I would be asking for a refund/replacement on the grounds the product has a manufacturing defect.

For the first 6 months after purchase it's up to the retailer to prove the product does *not* have a defect.

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Or get rid of Outlook Express which tends to be the main culprit for these events.

Works fine for me. Of course if you don't understand the settings then you can c*ck up with any newsreader. It's a bit unfair to blame OE just because it's not idiot-proof. It doesn't "eat" posts or otherwise make them magically disappear.

Tim

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