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Buying a new lounge suite - check it fits through the door! |
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by MumKim  (September 2006) (rank 16th) |
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After years of hand me down or op shop furniture we recently bought our first ever new lounge suite and I learnt some important lessons.
1. Just because a company is a well known Australian company (and the item is quite pricey) don't assume that is where the product
is made. The leather lounge suite made by Jason Australia was delayed and I was told it was on a ship from China.
2. Just because you know the lounge suite will fit in the room don't assume it will fit through the doorways it needs to to get there. - Imaginge my disappointment when after 11 weeks the new suite arrives and they can't get it through the front door (or any other door in the house!). Now add pregnancy hormones!
3. The furniture shop does not have to take it back.
We were very lucky, the company we bought from agreed to take it back and give us a full refund (I am actually still waiting for my deposit). The delivery guys told me that if we had bought it at some well known shops they would just have had to leave it in the carport! (expensive leather lounge suite, wet rainy day, no waterproof garage just a carport!!!!).
So now we are looking again for a comfortable lounge suite and the questions I am asking are:-
1. Where is it made?
2. Does it fit through a standard doorway?
3. If by some chance the delivery men can't get it through the door will you take it back and give me a full refund?
4. What is the warranty on the fabric, reclining machanism and foam?
I have recently learnt also that three seater lounges with built in recliners are made as come apart units (otherwise the are too heavy for delivery) so they are more likely to be fitted through a doorway than plain 3 seater lounges.
