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Architects CT
Built-in banquettes, window seats and benches set into millwork, from detail drawing to finished cushion. When firms look for furniture repair for architects CT jobs call for, the real question is nearly always a dimension.
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Measure the seat as it is sat on
Built-in seating is a piece of joinery with upholstery laid over it, and the joinery is cut first. By the time anyone picks a foam, your drawing has already set the seat height, the nosing and the gap between cushion and carcass. So the figure to design around is how thick the seat is once it is compressed. A 100mm cushion stops being 100mm the moment someone sits down, and if that guess is out by 15mm the detail cannot be put right without cutting the millwork again. Asked for early, it takes one call.
Banquettes, window seats and built-in benches
Furniture repair for architects CT firms ask about seldom involves a loose chair. It is the seating drawn into the building itself, which nobody replaces later without a carpenter.
Two trades, two kinds of tolerance
A carpenter works to the millimeter, and foam squashes. Built-in seating fails in the gap between those two facts, and it is closed on paper or not at all.
Settle while detailing
What supports the seatWebbing, springs or a solid deck each finish at a different height.
How dense the foam isDensity sets how far it compresses, which moves your section.
Settle before boxing in
- A way back inIf the pad is fixed for good, the next recover needs a carpenter too.
How corners finishA crisp outside corner needs extra material, and the carcass has to leave room for it.
Section, figures, carcass, cushion
Send us the section
While you are detailing, not at handover. A sketch will do.
We send the figures
Seated height, gap and material allowance for the build you intend.
The carcass is built
To a dimension that already allows for the upholstery.
Upholstered to suit
With a pad that can come out for a recover in ten years.
At the drawing stage, and a decade on
While you are designing, this is a conversation about dimensions. Years later it turns into commercial reupholstery, and whether that job is simple or costly depends on whether the pad lifts out, which is covered on seating replacement. The compression figures we work from are on foam density.
Furniture Repair for Architects CT FAQ
Questions firms raise while they are still detailing.
What height should the carcass be drawn at?
Give us the finished seat height and the foam you plan, and we will work back to the carcass height. It is the most common furniture repair for architects CT firms bring us, and an early question costs you nothing.
Does the foam density really affect the section?
It does. Firmer foam squashes less, so a cushion of the same nominal size ends up higher. That is why density belongs in the specification and not in the fit-out.
Should the cushions lift out?
They should. A fixed pad means the next recover needs a carpenter as well as an upholsterer, and that doubles the bill ten years from now.
Can you work from our drawings?
Yes. An early sketch section is far more useful to us than a finished carcass that arrives late.
Do you take on historic or period interiors?
Yes, with a light hand. Why we hold back on older pieces is explained on the antique dealers page.
Send us a sketch section
The seat height, the carcass and the foam you have in mind. We reply with the compressed figures your detail needs.
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