When you are buying your teak garden furniture how do you determine the quality of the wood you are purchasing?

The most important factor is the grade of the teak wood used to make garden furniture and it should always be Grade A. Below is a short guide on how you can determine the quality of the wood you are buying.

GRADE A:

This is the highest quality wood available and is made using the centre

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In today's modern, open-plan office environment noise can be one of the biggest problems, leading to frustration and lack of efficiency on the part of the employees. This is particularly true in offices - for example call centres - where people spend a lot of time on the phone. The biggest cause of excessive noise in offices results from noise reflections from hard surfaces. There are many hard

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Companies and organisations often lease cars and other capital equipment, but they don't realise that they can lease office furniture as well. You may want to consider leasing office furniture for tax reasons, or simply to conserve cash flow. Leasing office furniture will allow you to spread the cost to match your income, with periods ranging from two to five years. One of the benefits of leasing

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The first decision to make when choosing executive office furniture is what material and finish you want. The choices are real wood veneer or melamine or similar artificial finish. Real wood veneer is obviously the most prestigious, but is also the most expensive and requires considerable care and maintenance. Modern melamine finishes look virtually as good as veneer and are considerably cheaper

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Tambour cupboards are a recent addition to office furniture ranges. Their key feature is that they have roller-shutter type doors that roll into the side of the cupboard. This makes them much more reliable and user-friendly than the type that roll upwards into the top of the cupboard. Because the doors roll into the side of the cupboard they take up much less space that traditional filing

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Height adjustable desks can be specified for a number of purposes:

• For people with reduced mobility or other special need, for example to enable a wheelchair to be pushed under the desk. In some cases it can be a requirement of the Disability Discrimination Act to provide such facilities.
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• For people such as architects, graphic designers etc who often work either standing up or sitting

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This question is very difficult to answer as it depends on so many factors. The range of pricing in the office desking market varies from less than £100 for a rectangular 18mm thick melamine desktop supported on the most basic of square steel tube frames to over £4,000 for a hand built wood veneer desk built in the traditional way by experienced craftsmen.

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Most general purpose office furniture is made from a man made product called melamine faced chipboard or MFC. This comprises a substrate, usually chipboard, but sometime medium density fibreboard, over which, on both sides is pressed a decorative paper finish impregnated with melamine resin. This process is carried out at high temperature and pressure and is called polymerisation. The result is a cost effective, hardwearing board, which is stable and resistant to scratching and abrasion. This board is then machine cut and edged and used to make the various shapes and sizes of office desks and furniture. The decorative paper finish can either imitate wood grains of popular timber, such as oak, beech, cherry or maple, or single colour effects such as grey, beige or white.

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Trying to make a noisy office more peaceful is a very difficult job for an office manager or even an office furniture dealer. There are many factors to take into account, and it is not as simple as just ordering a few desk top and floor standing screens. Whilst these may help, in some cases the difference will be almost negligible. The whole structure of the office and how it is used has to first be analysed.

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There are two main types of screen available in the office furniture market, floor standing and desk mounted screens. The desk mounted screens is, rather obviously, fixed to the desk top by means or a metal clamping bracket. These are available in many different shapes and sizes to suit most desk styles and desk top thicknesses. The actual screen is usually around 43 cm high but can be taller or shorter to suit individual needs.

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