Oodle

If you want to be sure your getting the very best value and not getting scammed then be very sure to read the Bedroom Furniture  tips and tricks below. They can almost save you tons of headaches and thousands of dollars.

Let’s say as an example that you would like to add a new Bedroom Furniture Dressers to one of your Bedroom furniture Collections and this is the day you’re going out shopping. Use and go with these simple little techniques to avoid thinking you’re getting a zealous deal, but when in reality the furniture store is unloading a faulty furniture piece on you.

1. Take a Metal or Plastic yard measure with you. Be sure it’s not the wooden variety as they are not always 100 percent true (strait) they do sometimes tend to warp. The purpose of the yardstick will be to test to see if the piece you want to add into one of your bedroom furniture collections will warp badly on you over time.

placet the yardstick along most of the lower beam edges and look for high spots wherever it rocks like a teeter totter or low areas where you can see daylight between the yardstick and the sellected piece. Some of the prime spots to check will be also behind the piece on the major surfaces and believe it or not if it’s a dresser on top as well. When checking the top surface gently lay the yardstick on the top at various positions looking for the thing earlier described.

If you see excessive high or low spots that could very well be an indicator that the wood was not completely kiln dried BEFORE they cut out the patterns and assembled the piece. When you see this move on to the next piece because if it continues drying and shrinking it will usually only get a lot worse.    

2. On bedroom furniture dressers, high boys, hutches and everything with a back to it also look for back slat separation. Here you look at the back support beams, slats, members ect… and look for any of them with high points that cause the yardstick to rock or any see through gaps. This is also a big indication that the furniture is beneath stress and twisting and turning as it dries and shrinks.

Also then at the ends of the slat, support areas look for any fasteners (screws, staples or nails ect..) that have little areas where you can tell that the hole the staple (example) made is bigger than it should be. This shows that the piece was falling apart at the seams and they pushed or hammered it back together.

IF you see any of the above discrepancies you may wish to consider moving on to the next piece. I am not saying that the vendor was attempting to get over on you but these are common things that are 100% buyer beware and you’re the buyer so beware.  

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.