Everyone, everyone, hello!
I probably, like many of you, had a chair. An old, crumbling, shabby chair, but made of good wood. And I wanted to try my hand at restoring it.
I did it for the first time, but before work I consulted with an experienced furniture carpenter, who briefly told me what to do and how to do it.
There was such a chair, which was painted with floor paint, which in turn was partially peeled off.
The chair was falling apart and the seat was tattered.
The first thing I did was to completely take the chair apart and tore off the old upholstery.
Then, using a hair dryer, I cleaned off a thick layer of floor paint. I wanted to clean immediately with a grinder with emery wheels, but they are instantly clogged with paint.
After the hair dryer, I started working as a grinder with P80 emery wheels.
It turned out to clean the parts down to wood, which looks very cool and is of quite high quality.
Using wood putty, I smeared a few chips and cracks.
After drying, I cleaned the putty with fine sandpaper.
I also didn’t forget about the grooves and (I don’t know how they are called correctly) pins, they were also processed with sandpaper to remove the old glue.
I covered all the parts with wood varnish and left to dry for 24 hours. The gluing points were not varnished!
After a day, he again walked with fine sandpaper. It felt very smooth to the touch.
For gluing I used PVA 801 wood glue.
He liberally lubricated the gluing points and inserted the parts in their places.
He tightened everything with clamps and left for 3 hours.
After 3 hours, I completely assembled the chair, placing it on a flat surface and tightening it again with clamps.
I cut a new one from the old plywood and fitted it in place.
I covered the plywood and the entire chair with varnish again.
I cut in 3 cm thick foam rubber with an allowance of a couple of centimeters on each side and glued it to the plywood with "Titan" polymer glue.
I cut the foam rubber so that there was an allowance of about 7 mm on each side. I think that will be enough. He took some kind of furniture fabric, rather dense. But working with her is not difficult.
Using a furniture stapler, secured the fabric.
That's how it happened, for the first time it was not bad at all.
Since this chair will no longer be restored and pulled over, I decided to simply glue the seat with the same polymer glue.
Yes, yes, I know that it was possible and necessary to screw the seat with self-tapping screws.
Here's what I ended up with. For the first experience, it will do.
If you are interested in watching the whole process in video format, then here is the link: watch the video
Under the video, some comrades wrote that it was necessary to tint the wood with a stain, I answer, I like the natural color of the wood, so I did just that.
And there were also attacks on the fabric for upholstery, which I found at home, then I attached it.
This is not an educational article and I do not urge you to repeat it, just shared. Someone will definitely be interested in this and may even be useful.
Almost a year has passed since the restoration, we actively use the chair, it holds up perfectly, nothing has loosened.
And here's another option, how my mom restored the chair without problems