Re: Replacing a Sectional
One of the most frequent questions here is "What are the qualities of various brands and how do they compare?" And that's a question I cannot answer. There are hundreds of upholstery makers in the country. It would be a full-time job (like Consumers Reports) to know the details of the builds on all of them. There is no place on line that rates all the various brands - who could afford to offer that service? I know it would probably take me two years working full time every day on comparisons and data base it all, and who is going to pay for that kind of research? So anything you find on the internet is mostly going to be a particular dealer's experience with a product line, and word of mouth from consumers such as yourself. Now, if you want to track down a cutaway of a vendor / maker and post it here in a photo, that's a tool I can work with the see the build. Not that many suppliers do cutaways however, and I imagine there are quite a few that don't really want you to see how it's made.
Of the brands I carry in my store, in fabric, you can definitely get Hancock and Moore, Century, and Taylor King in the $ 3K to $ 4K price range, depending on complexity of the piece and cover used.
As to recliners, the key is to buy one that uses either a Leggett and Platt mechanism, or Ultramech. Those are the best mechanisms in the market. Every brand I carry in my store in motion will use one of those two as well.
Duane Collie
Straight answers from thirty-six years in the business.
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