“If you’ve just ordered a new sofa cover, don’t read this… it will break your heart!”
A special report by John Nesbitt
There are many companies large and small you can buy replacement sofa covers from. But how do you distinguish between those that use really good quality fabric and are highly skilled, specialist sofa cover makers (who also don’t charge a fortune) – and those that use a poorer quality, don’t have quite the same skill, or are over-expensive?
The 7 Things You Should Expect From Your Sofa Cover Company
1, You should expect to receive a great fitting cover – a cover that looks as good and snug as the original. It should be properly fitted and tight around all the corners and edges, not loose-fitting. Your sofa should look and feel brand new again!
2, You should be offered a very wide choice of fabric, style and colour – almost anything you want, from traditional to modern. There are scores of great fabrics available today – make sure you are offered them.
3, The quality of he fabric should be superb – a quality that will last for years and years.
4, The company and its craftsmen and women who make your cover should be accredited members of the Association of Master Upholsterers (AMU). Why? Because a sofa cover made by an AMU member is the best there is. Non-members may not have the same training and skill.
But you’ll be surprised: some companies are AMU members but the people they employ to make their covers are not. Now, in my book, that’s just not right!
My advice: check that the company you order your cover from is an AMU member themselves and either employ their own AMU accredited tailors, or are subcontracting only to AMU accredited members.
5, Your cover should have matching colour threads and zips. You’d be surprised how many companies deliver covers with non-matching standard beige or black zips, and nylon thread. They look awful!
6, You should be offered optional replacement cushions that are professionally crafted to recreate the look and feel of the original (not be square-cut, poor replacements like so many I see).
7, Finally, your sofa cover should come with an unconditional one to three month replacement or money back guarantee of complete satisfaction.
A Company You Can Trust
The UK’s most established sofa cover company. Lynplan Ltd, was started after the second world war, in 1947 by an ex-bomb disposal engineer.
Current MD of Lynplan and oldest son of the family, Andrew Vipond, says, “Being a bomb disposal man and a skilled mechanical engineer, my dad Richard, built the company with fine attention to detail, plus good old fashioned care for the product and the customer.”
“We live by that same standard today. He’d be proud that the same quality, detail and care is just as much our backbone today as it was in his day”
“In fact, 60 years of experience and the modern, high-tech equipment we have now, enables us to make better covers now than at any time in our history. Thousands of customers come to us from all over the UK and virtually every one of them can’t believe how good these covers are – they love the fabrics and the detail and care we put into each cover! I am very proud of that.”
What About Price
I was surprised how competitively priced these high quality tailored Lynplan sofa covers are.
When you see the beautiful fabrics, and the attention to detail of every cut and stitch, and the accuracy of the fitting – even around the trickiest of corners and edges – you think these covers will be pricey. But they’re not!
In fact, they are no more expensive than ‘stretch’ covers offered by some companies, that don’t look anywhere near as good as these.
These Lynplan covers are the real thing at a price that makes you realise you’ve found a good old-fashioned company you can trust.
And If your Sofa is...
If you have a Parker Knoll, Cintique, G-Plan, Multiyork, Collins & Hayes, Minty, Tetrad, Laura Ashley, M&S or Ercol you can simply order your cover by post. Lynplan have been the main replacement manufacturer in the UK for these makes for many years (they have been making for Parker Knoll and Cintique since 1947) so you know you are getting a genuine, high quality and perfect-fitting cover.
If you have a different make (Lynplan make covers for literally hundreds of different manufacturers) simply let them know the make and model and they will let you know what is available.
In Conclusion
Lynplan stood for quality and perfect-fitting ever since Andrew’s father, Richard, started the company way back in 1947. In my mind, how much you can trust a company is revealed by the number of letters of thanks they receive. When I asked Andrew about this, he showed me a small mountain of letters, cards and emails saying how delighted customers are with their Lynplan covers.
This quality and insistence on your complete satisfaction is exemplified in Lynplan’s 100% money back guarantee. I think ultimately, this tells you all you need to know:
No other company in the whole of the UK offers every customer a no-quibble 90-day money back guarantee for Covers made in the company’s fabrics, plus an unconditional three year quality of materials and fit guarantee.
I guess that is why Lynplan is the most trusted sofa cover manufacturer with thousands of householders buying Lynplan covers each year.
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