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Question Title: Fire Retardent Sprays
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| We have been contacted by a company offering to treat beds, sofas and other soft furnishings in order to render them safe in a fire. Do these treatment allow the landlord or agent to retain the furniture in a rented property under the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations ?
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| Whilst the companies may rightly claim that these treatments do add to the fire retardent properties of the furniture, it is unlikely that the furniture so treated will pass the regulations for fire safety; and so it is likely that the furniture would have to be replaced in order to comply fully. We recently called a trading standards official for an opinion in this matter. His reply was that generally, these treatments are surface treatments only (they are normally applied with a spraying device) and will not penetrate adequately into the foam of the furniture or beds concerned. Since the regulations make particular requirements of the treatment and type of foams to be used in compliant furniture, it is unlikely that the treatment will be adequate. The DTI recently expressed similar reservations and we know of no treatment which has yet been approved.
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Letting Update Journal |
Oct 1998 page 11 |
letting-update-journal.html
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Letting Handbook |
Chapter 8 |
letting-handbook-and-factsheets.html
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Letting Factsheet No 3 |
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factsheet-3
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