https://www.repaircafe.org/en/repairing-furniture/ Weggooien? Mooi niet! Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.repaircafe.org/en/repairing-furniture/#comment-5414 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:28:14 +0000 https://repaircafe.org/?p=41776#comment-5414 Hello David
Delighted to hear that you love repairing furniture. I don’t have a website – or a workshop – but I attend Upholstery classes and love to rescue chairs and give them a new lease of life. Very often the old chairs repaired are better than modern ones newly bought as they don’t seem to last 5 minutes!! They are frequently made from everything but good timber and are just as frequently dumped and replaced with the same short-lifespan articles!! I don’t approve!!!!! I once restored a lovely set of old chairs with drop-in seats – 10 chairs and 2 carvers. The one thing I remembered to do at the start was to assign a number to the chair and the same number to the seat frame, so that they could be matched up easily. Just to prove my theory about matching seat and frame, I deliberately tried to put, eg chair 1 and drop-in seat 7 together. Needless to say, it didn’t fit!! Just for the record, I live in Northern Ireland. Where are you, please?
All the best. Alison

]]> https://www.repaircafe.org/en/repairing-furniture/#comment-1308 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:28:05 +0000 https://repaircafe.org/?p=41776#comment-1308 I repaired many drop in seats. I enjoy working with hand tools. I had to buy a webbing stretcher and stapler. The stapler has many other uses. There are many adhesives. Best to learn how with a hands on expert. My driving improved when I taught my lad. Experts love to enable keen learners.

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