Being in the carpet game, I have certainly lifted some office furniture in my time and am especially placed to know some interesting facts about this subject. Moving it gives you a unique perspective on its suitability to some of the rigours it will have to face in the course of its lifetime.
Joints are always the first thing to go on office furniture and lifting it to fit carpets is a sure way to test this! Next, the plastic blocks fail that are designed to hold it together. And then the storage office furniture like cupboards and cabinets lose their clean alignment.
Carpet fitters are notorious for wanting to move furniture ASAP and arguably could take more care, especially of office furniture that often contains computers wired into it. Advice here would be to to move anything precious and back up any info not secure on servers in a seperate room.
Good quality office furniture is found from good dealers such as Office Interiors Ltd in Ilkley (Penthouse Carpets territory). It's always best to buy quality office furniture because the companies who make it have taken the time to find out what's good, and to develop it.
Just promise me one thing, you won't go round placing scraps of carpet under the desk legs. It won't stop the office furniture from marking the pile, but it wiil look absolutely awful and you can get a guarantee on that one.
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