Repair of furniture in the house with his own hands - the secrets of mastery

Home Furniture damaged for various reasons, so it is important to know how to repair the furniture at home with their own hands.

Of course, you can refer to specialists and repair old furniture, but this entails additional costs.

In general repair of furniture - a simple process, which can carry even a novice in this business.

Repair of furniture with his hands is different depending on the type of furniture: soft or kitchen.Detail all the steps shown in the video.

Repair of upholstered furniture

From long operation upholstered furniture comes into disrepair, and then you want to make a constriction, the repair of the old upholstery, frame repairs at home.

Choose the material should be suitable for upholstery, such as velvet, gabardine, artificial leather or imitation.

also need to choose the foam with a porous and elastic structure, pressing the foam should quickly dent crack, leaving no trace.

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When the materials are prepared, you can proceed to the analysis of upholstered furniture.

When repairing foam frame is replaced, because it is impossible to remove dents.

If the frame has leather or rubber belts, they should carefully examine, and if the material loses its elasticity, it cracks and tears, they definitely need to be replaced.

All joints frame disassembled, cleaned, covered with glue and fixed.Joints need to pull on the clamps while the glue set.

If the screws fixing the locations of the wood is badly damaged, you need to drill new holes at a distance of 2 cm from the old holes.

In the old holes have to be sure to put the caps and put them putty.Rough edges of the frame should be sanded.When the frame repaired, you can begin to reveal the new upholstery.

old upholstery can be used as a template for this it is necessary to put on new fabric and cut around the outlines given an allowance of 2-3 cm. Then you need to cut out the upholstery.

Post constriction is necessary to mount the foam, which is fixed with glue.Glue is applied to the corners and in the center of the element.Foam can be cut out as well as trim, but without allowance.

After drying glue new upholstery is fixed on a wooden or a plywood base in the center of one side, using the 2-3 bracket, as in the photo above.

Thereafter, the workpiece is turned and stretched fabric with multiple fixation fasteners.Then, padding is attached on the entire face, not reaching to the edges of 3-5 cm, the example in the photo.

on the other side padding mounted similarly.The angles are fixed at the end.

When hauling is completed, the construction should be collected in the reverse order of removal.Necking process is recommended to look at the video and photos.

Most leather furniture repair required.The first way is to paint compound.First upholstery cleaned and degreased: washed with soap and water and wiped with alcohol.

After drying the surface of the compound is sprayed and spread with a soft cloth dipped in warm water.

After drying the leather upholstery surface is polished a small cloth or cotton pad.Then primed desired color.This method is suitable for furniture made of imitation leather.

repair leather furniture and furnishings from imitation leather can be made of liquid skin.This method is used to break the skin or imitation leather.

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under the damaged area is enclosed foam, then place inside glued and left to dry.

Next is the cleansing and degreasing of leather upholstery, and apply liquid skin the desired color with a brush or spatula.Finally, the surface is leveled.

Repair of kitchen furniture Kitchen furniture

subjected to a variety of influences, so often have to do the repair of kitchen furniture with his own hands.

Frequent use of facade leads to defects in the door that can not open or open by themselves.

Randomly opening occurs due to distortion of the facades, you can fix this by placing a thin wooden plate under one leg.

If weakened loop, they must tighten or replace fixing screws on the hinges longer.

If badly damaged screw holes, then they need to fill a special putty for wood.

common problem of the old kitchen furniture is defective sliding cabinets that sooner or later bad nominated.

To resolve this problem, you need to rub rails boxes paraffin or wax.If the cause is swelling of parts of the moisture, it is necessary to erase the sandpaper rubbing areas.

worktop - the basis of kitchen furniture that is most exposed to various damages, so consider the common defects of the old countertop.

If lacquered table top, then the appearance on it of scratches or abrasions, as in the photo, you can remove them as follows: 1: mixed in a ratio of 1 fabric swab wetted with alcohol in the composition and flax oil.

swab, wipe the affected area, and then polish cloth.

If the scratches are very deep, for example, as in the photo, the selected paint color of the polished surface, which is applied to the defect area, and then polished section.

If left on the table top spot from hot dishes, you can remove it by wiping portion swab soaked in alcohol.

If this method does not help, it is recommended to polish the stain with a mixture of alcohol with linseed oil.Then again, the surface is treated with alcohol and polished.

When lacquer damage is very serious, then use a special remover, which is used as follows.

varnished surface scratches are applied in a grid in the form of squares with side of 1.5 cm. Thereafter

required smyvku evenly cover portion and waxed paper.Wait a while and remove the varnish with a spatula.

cleaned surface is washed with a solvent and dried.After drying is carried out sanding and applying varnish.

detailed repair varnished surface is presented on video.

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consider repair of kitchen furniture made of particleboard.If your furniture from DSP chips are formed, the first defect handled chisel to make the edges straight.

then selected the right color hard wax, which is melted and applied to the cleavage site.After drying, the excess wax removed, and the area is polished with felt cloth.

Now you need to restore the texture of the CPD.For this purpose, retouch pen, which applied line.

Lines is recommended to wipe cloth, creating a blurred boundary.Then the land is covered with varnish.

Repair scratches on the DSP can use soft wax that is applied to the defect with a spatula, then dorisovyvat texture chipboard marker.At the end portion is covered with varnish.

Remove from chipboard scuff easily.This will require a microfibre cloth, moistened marker suitable color.

This cloth colored with the defect, and then the land is covered with varnish.

Cracks with chipboard removed with a syringe filled with white glue, which is fully inserted into the fracture.Then you need to put on the clamp and leave the furniture for 48 hours, waiting for the complete drying.

Repair of furniture made of particle board is presented on video.

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on wood furniture can happen bloating veneer.Eliminate defects by space heating, and a small pressure on the defect.

If replacement of the damaged portion of the veneer on wood furniture, then you need to make a patch, which should match the color of the furniture.

On-site cut veneer damage a small area, and the patch is applied to the site and fixed with adhesive paper.

Then you need to smooth the joints.At the end of the tree surface is covered with wax or varnish.

Furniture repair their own hands can be, having even a minimal knowledge and skills in this area.The detailed process is presented in the video.

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