Buying Guides

A Buyers Guide to Pledge Bench Seating

Bench seating is most often used in reception areas and waiting rooms, for example in doctors’ surgeries, police stations etc. Pledge Office Furniture offer a full range of bench seating, from metallic systems that can be bolted to the floor through to fully upholstered bench seating systems.

All four bench seat systems from Pledge are based on a flexible beam system. The beam has legs at each end which can be fixed to the floor with appropriate fittings or can be free standing. Each beam can be the equivalent of two, three or four seats long. The beam is supplied in silver of black finish, but for large orders they can be sprayed to any colour you wish. Various combinations of seats and tables can then be fitted to the beam.

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A Buyers Guide to Operator Chairs

Primo Operator Chair

If you look in any office furniture catalogue you will find a wide range of operator chairs with a very wide range of prices. As with most things, you get what you pay for. If you buy a cheap operator chair you may well find that it is uncomfortable and will not last very long if you use them for long periods of time. These chairs are really designed for occasional rather than full time use. Continue reading »

A Buyers Guide to Executive Office Chairs

What is an executive office chair? The mechanisms and adjustments available in a executive office chair should be much the same as those available in an ordinary operator chair. These adjustments should include, as a minimum, height adjustment, backrest and seat adjustment and a tension control. They should also be made to the same quality and safety standards. You may well find some very cheap executive office chairs, but be aware that the quality of the mechanisms will not be as good as the more expensive models and the ergonomics will not be to the same level. Continue reading »

K.West Executive Office Furniture

A Buyers Guide to Budget Executive Office Furniture

CH Workspace has a number of budget executive furniture ranges which are held in stock and can be delivered and installed in as little as five working days. Our budget executive furniture ranges are all top quality, designer furniture pieces which are built to last but which are also amazing value for money. The reason why they are such good value is that they are made from melamine-faced board rather than real wood veneer. MFC is used in most business furniture these days and is barely distinguishable from the real thing. In fact, in some situations MFC is actually better than veneer, since it is much more resistant to scratching, hot coffee cups etc and is maintenance free. Continue reading »

4Most Glass Desk

A Buyers Guide to Glass Desks and Glass Tables

One of the most surprising things about glass furniture is the very wide variation in price between the various options. This is almost always directly related to the quality of the materials used and whether or not they are mass produced. Many of the cheap glass desks and tables are made from low grade materials and are imported in bulk from the far east. Continue reading »

Office Lockers

Now that call centres are a standard part of the office furniture catalogue, we need to consider all the other furniture and equipment that is required to supplement the call centre desks. In call centres it is common that office workers are not allowed to take personal equipment such as mobile phones, laptop computers etc to their desks. They also need storage space for raincoats, umbrellas etc.
Many call centres use standard office lockers as suitable, secure storage for these personal items. The standard metal lockers used to be common in factory and workshop environments, but they needed a designer touch to be suitable for the normal office environment. CH Workspace now have this type of office locker in their main office furniture catalogue. Continue reading »

A significant consideration when buying call centre furniture is density, ie the number of people you can

Call Centre Furniture

comfortably fit in a particular space. The smallest practical workspace, considering the need for a computer and telephone is 80cm wide by 60-80cm deep.

There are three basic styles of call centre desks to consider:

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Tula Reception Desk

By combining traditional hand crafting skills with technology based manufacturing, including CNC machining centres and computer controlled lasers for cutting our veneers, Tula produce business office furniture of exceptional quality and market leading value.

The office furniture is specifically designed for commercial use and manufactured to BS EN 527 and BS 4875 standards. Each piece is hand finished and installed by experienced fitters with a 5 year guarantee. Continue reading »

A Buyers Guide to GDB Office Furniture

GDB Design is a European wholesaler of business  furniture, with offices in most European countries, including the UK. They negotiate with some of the best furniture manufacturers in Europe and beyond to provide one of best ranges of furniture on the European market.

One of the most interesting features of the GDB system is that they have huge quantities of furniture stored in a European warehouse, which is shipped out, on demand, to local warehouses. The logistics system is so well adapted to the market that all GDB’s desks and chairs can be delivered and installed anywhere in Europe within a week or so. Most business  furniture manufacturers make their furniture  to order, so you might have to wait for up to six weeks for other  furniture for your office . Continue reading »

Systems Office Furniture

Systems furniture is a term often used to describe modular  furniture which includes stand-alone desks, clustered desks, filing systems, storage cupboards and all their ancillaries such as desktop screens and cable management systems. Continue reading »