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Terms of Use

These are the terms of use of dumos-us.com. They are short because the site does one thing: it lays out the DUMOS range room by room with the figures we hold on each piece, and it sends you to our retail partner to buy one.

What this site is

A catalogue and a set of guides. Every piece page prints its width, its drawer or tier count, its weight capacity where we state one, its colours and sizes, and the price from our own product data. Payment, delivery and returns are handled at checkout with our retail partner, not on this site. Nothing is sold, stocked or shipped from here.

Prices and figures

Prices come from our own product data and are refreshed on a schedule; the figure at checkout is the one that counts, and where the two disagree the till wins. Measurements are in inches as we publish them, and the size on a card is the assembled piece unless the card says carton. Where a figure is missing from a card it is missing because we do not hold it.

Furniture that can tip

A dresser, a bookshelf, a TV stand or a cabinet is the furniture that tips, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission runs a whole campaign, Anchor It!, on that one point: anchor all furniture with drawers, doors and shelves, and every TV, to the wall. The commission's five steps take a few minutes with the kit, a drill and a stud finder: fix a bracket to the wall, push the piece back against it, fix a bracket to the piece, run the strap between them, and tighten until a tug moves nothing. Under the STURDY Act, a dresser 27 inches or taller made after 1 September 2023 must pass federal stability tests and ship with an anti-tip device, and our fabric dressers of that height do ship with one; the strap only works once it is on the wall. A drawer left open for a climbing child is how most of these accidents start, and the commission's words are that they happen in the blink of an eye. The sources behind that paragraph, with the date we read them, are listed on our updates page.

Bunk beds

Bunk beds have a federal standard of their own, and the numbers in it are worth knowing before the ladder goes up. The upper bunk needs a guardrail on both sides, the rail on the wall side running the full length of the bed, and the tops of the rails must stand at least 5 inches above the top of the mattress: a thicker mattress than the frame was cut for eats that margin. No opening at the end of the upper bunk above the mattress may be wide enough for the commission's wedge block, which is a stand-in for a child's body. The commission classes children's bunk beds as beds for children 12 and under, and its long-standing advice is that a child under six sleeps on the bottom bunk. Our twin-over-twin frames carry both rails and the ladder; the mattress thickness, the age of the child and the wall the bed stands against are yours to check.

Space heaters

A portable heater is the one piece in this catalogue that starts fires, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission counts about 1,600 of them a year, with about 70 deaths and 150 injuries, in its most recent three-year figures. Its rules are short. Keep the heater at least three feet from drapes, furniture, bedding and anything else that burns, on all sides. Plug it directly into a wall outlet, never into an extension cord or a power strip. Turn it off before you sleep and before you leave the room. Our heater carries a tip-over switch; a switch is not a substitute for the three feet.

Chairs, desks and the word ergonomic

The word ergonomic on a chair is a promise about your body, so here is what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration means by it in its computer workstation guidance. A backrest that follows the natural curve of your spine and supports the lower back; a seat that lets your feet rest flat on the floor or a footrest; armrests, if the chair has them, that let your shoulders relax with your elbows close to your body; and a base with five legs on casters. The desk puts the monitor straight in front of you at least 20 inches away, with nothing stored under it where your legs go. OSHA adds the sentence that matters most: sitting still for a long time is not healthy however good the posture, and the cure is to change position, stand and walk during the day. A chair with lumbar support and a desk that rises are tools for that; neither is a treatment for a back that already hurts, which is a question for a doctor.

None of this is medical or safety advice for your house

The notes above repeat what public bodies publish. They do not know your wall, your child or your back. Anchoring is done by you, on your wall, with the kit; a bunk bed is set up by you against the standard; a heater is placed by you; a chair is adjusted by you. Where a question is about your health rather than about a piece of furniture, the answer is a doctor, and the guides here say so where it comes up.

Links to other sites

Where a page here cites an outside authority, the link goes to that authority's own page. We do not control those pages and they can change after we read them; the date we read each one is printed beside it.

Changes

These terms change when the site does. The date at the top of the updates page is the date of the current version. Questions: plan@dumos-us.com.