5 useful upholstery repair pieces of advice which is a most for you
When it comes to upholstery, we normally think about professional guys who can do upholstery for us, and it is a logical way of thinking. However, in some emergency cases, it is a good idea to know a couple of important things about upholstery and even upholstery repair. In this article, we will provide all the necessary information about upholstery repair and 5 upholstery repair-related pieces of advice.
Upholstery repair for sofas
When you look at a sofa, the first thing that attracts you is its upholstery. Therefore, it should be as beautiful as possible. This is just the perspective aspect and when it comes to fabric, you should be aware of the useful fabric you choose. The fabric should last for a long time without any damages or other problems.
As for examples of most used fabrics in sofas, we can mention microfiber imitation suede and leatherette. Before you start to do upholstery repair, it is an essential phase to think about your décor too. Because your new sofa should match all the other elements of your place.
Using flexible filler for sofas made from leatherette
Leatherette sofas are popular these days and it makes us think more about the most useful methods of their upholstery repair. In this respect, we think about a great method to do upholstery repair for leatherette sofas. This method is using flexible filler for these sofas.
For the leatherette sofas, it is common to face damages such as holes or even bigger problematic areas on sofas. For upholstery repair of these situations, flexible fillers can be a great help. These fillers can be added to the sofas using heat. Otherwise, it cannot look so interesting.
Nowadays, we focus on using non-toxic materials and nature-friendly ones. To make this happen, we use FC-1 soft filler, which is non-toxic, water-based, and even easy to apply. Furthermore, to apply it, we will need less heat.
Using flexible filler in upholstery repair can also be applied to synthetic sofa upholstery.
Using sandpaper-super-glue method
One more method, which can be used for upholstery repair of leatherette sofas is using sandpaper-super-glue. However, this method is only useful for smaller problems such as small cuts.
If you have a cat as a pet of yours, you can do sandpaper-super-glue upholstery repair for your leatherette sofa. Usually, cats scratch sofas and they can be assumed as minor cuts and can be completely solved with the mentioned method.
You would better think about the flexible fillers if your cat damaged your leatherette sofas severely.
Additionally, this method cannot be used for the upholstery repair of synthetic sofa upholstery.
How to avoid flaking or peeling leather
In some cases, the leatherette quality is not that high, and this makes it flaking or even peeling. This can be even more severe when the leatherette sofa is a cheap one. Generally thinking, flaking, or peeling leatherette can have 2 main reasons: using some other fabrics except leatherette and solvent-based coating or elastomeric.
Using some things other than leatherette: in a set of sofas, you can see some fabrics which are really like leatherette. However, they are not! They are some cheap fabrics and textiles with the name of polyurethane PU or bonded leather. If your sofa is made up of this fabric, it is not suggested to do an upholstery repair. Because the same problem will appear one more time, even after upholstery repair.
solvent-based coating or elastomeric: if your sofa is basically from solvent-based coating or elastomeric, you would see it peeling or flaking. Therefore, you must not expect these kinds of sofas to hast for a long time.
To make it clear, solvent-based coating or elastomeric are kinds of coating, which apply to the sofa’s surface after it is built. However, these coatings can easily be removed. To understand whether your sofa has these coatings, you can drop some water on its surface. When the sofa absorbs the water, it has a coating. Otherwise, it hasn’t.
To avoid flaking, we use a set of useful methods, which are helpful and whenever you faced this problem you can count on our help. These methods are using slow sand, using multipurpose cleaner, and an old scotch Brite pad.
After using these methods, you may feel that there are many differences between the coated sections and uncoated parts. To prevent this feeling, we use rub and restore methods, which can bring back the great feeling of the sofa when you touch the repaired parts.
How to repair sagging sofa
Sagging sofas are always a big problem of ours. However, you can meet us. We solve this problem as well as possible. This problem can be solved using plywood.
Before we start doing upholstery repair, we remove cushions and damaged textiles. Then we do all the measurements to avoid any possible problems.
In conclusion, we need to say that upholstery repair is a professional task that needs much effort. Therefore, an expert team should work on it to get the best possible results ever. Here we are for you, and you can count on us whenever you needed any advice or any upholstery repair task. We would be happy to be in contact with you.