Care home furniture from Turkey is built by the contract case-goods and upholstery factories that furnish hotels. Care homes and senior living buildings need hotel-quality rooms that are easy to clean, safe to lean on and simple to read for residents with failing sight or memory. Rovers prices the package from the operator’s drawings, approves a sample room before production, and leaves medical devices to the certified makers that supply them.
Scope: supplied and by others
| Area | Rovers supplies | By others (certified medical maker) |
|---|---|---|
| Resident room | Wardrobe, chest of drawers, bedside cabinet, armchair, side table, desk or dressing table, mirror, headboard panel | Profiling bed, pressure-care mattress, hoist |
| Lounges | Sofas, armchairs at several seat heights, coffee and side tables, display shelving | Powered riser-recliner chairs, where the operator classes them as care equipment |
| Dining | Dining tables at standard and wheelchair height, dining chairs with arms, servery joinery | |
| Corridors and reception | Reception desk, seating alcoves, display shelves, memory boxes by room doors | |
| Staff areas | Nurse-station joinery, staff room furniture, lockers, office furniture | Medicine trolleys and clinical carts |
Profiling beds are medical devices (in the EU under Regulation 2017/745). Rovers does not supply them. The schedule lists them as by others, with their sizes, so the bedside cabinet and wardrobe positions are drawn around them.
Drawn for older residents
Care operators and designers ask for features that make a room easier to use. They go on the shop drawings line by line:
| Need | How the furniture answers it |
|---|---|
| Standing up from a chair | Firm seats at set heights, arms that reach the front edge, chairs weighted so they don’t tip when leaned on |
| Failing sight | Strong colour contrast between seat and floor, table and wall; matt finishes that don’t glare |
| Memory loss | Wardrobes with a glazed or open section so contents are visible; plain handles in a contrasting colour |
| Falls and knocks | Rounded corners and edges on tables, bedside cabinets and wardrobe doors |
| Spills and incontinence | Wipe-clean, moisture-barrier upholstery; removable seat covers; clean-out gap between seat and back |
| Heavy daily use | High rub-count fabrics; hard-wearing edges; fixings that stay tight |
Secure dementia or mental-health units may need anti-ligature or tamper-proof furniture. Rovers prices those pieces only against the operator’s own written specification.
Fire standards
| Market | Upholstery | Mattresses and bed bases |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | BS 7176 medium hazard (BS 5852 Crib 5 plus EN 1021-1 and -2) | BS 7177 |
| European Union | EN 1021-1 and -2, plus national classes for care buildings (France M1/M2, Germany DIN 4102 B1) | EN 597-1 and -2 |
| United States | TB 117-2013; in assisted living (I-1) and nursing (I-2) occupancies without sprinklers, IFC 805 adds TB 133 heat-release tests | 16 CFR 1632 and 1633 |
| Gulf | Civil Defence approval | Civil Defence approval |
The test reports come from the factory that makes each item and are attached to the quote line they cover.
Sample room and handover
A sample resident room and a lounge corner are built from production materials, then tried by the operator’s care team: seat heights, arm positions, how a wardrobe opens from a wheelchair. Changes go back into the drawings before production. Packing follows floor and room. Outside the US, Rovers installs room by room and closes a snag list per floor. In the US, Rovers manufactures and delivers, and the operator’s installer fits the rooms.
What to send us
Send the room and lounge layouts, the number of resident rooms per type, the care type (residential, nursing, dementia, assisted living), the city and the opening date. The operator’s furniture specification, if there is one, saves a round of questions.
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