You may have seen or heard in the news lately about the UK’s toxic furniture, here is a link to a great article in the Times newspaper.
Sitting comfortably? Your sofa is among the most toxic on Earth https://www.thetimes.com/article/69d2f0ac-fc79-4ed9-a8bb-a6e0b2743f63?shareToken=18bda35c86326896c271447d6e44053e
You can make your favourite furniture eco friendly!
In most circumstances we can take your existing upholstered furniture and replace the fillings using only natural or organic fillings. Of course, we can also recover the furniture using a choice from our large range of natural and organic fabrics. With over 50 years experience reupholstering furniture we are confident that by supplying photographs and dimensions we will be able to recognise the construction methods originally used to produce your treasured pieces and so give expert opinion on the options available.
Ask Google, is wool fire retardant? This may answer a few of your queries.
We have received many enquiries for sofa’s & chairs to be made without the use of flame retardants, brominated fluorides, or any toxic or harmful chemicals.We have been working on this issue for over 12 months & are pleased to say that we can now offer natural fillings & fabrics that do not contain any of these treatments, we cannot say they are chemical free as we use water based adhesive and water is still a chemical,but we are confident that our upholstery is as close to nature as possible, whilst still complying with the UK upholstery regulations.
Our new organic wool back cushion has an outer case made of organic wool, with channelled compartments which are then filled with loose organic wool.
We all know that as time goes by that back cushions start to settle and after a course of time tend to lose their bounce as the loose filling gets compressed.
What we have done is to make each compartment accessible with a zip, enabling you to re-tease the wool when necessary and make your cushion last even longer.
We have had a great demand for our latex seat cushions, combined with hair &/or coir fibre ( depending on the firmness required) these can then be wrapped with wool or be encased with a feather outer quilt.
Did you know that natural latex is the milk of the tropical rubber tree (Hevea Brasiliensis) and is a natural and inexhaustible raw material. Every year the rubber trees neutralise over 90 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). A forest with rubber trees has the same air purifying characteristics as a tropical rain forest.
Natural latex is hygienic and ensures a healthy microclimate. As well as having anti- bacterial, anti- fungal and anti-dust mite characteristics it has optimal ventilation and excellent durability.