Help! How to renovate my dining room chair,

[Wacky Racer]

Hi all,

We have six dining room chairs about fifteen years old, which are like new except:-

On a couple of them the "vinyl" has cracked, maybe due to age or sun exposure on the bases,

I daresay we can get them covered at great expense, but if all the "bits" are removed, does anyone know of any DIY specialist spray or brush on covering which will make good.

Does not have to be a 100% perfect job as we only use them about three times a year.

Cheers.

WR.

[anonymous-user]

I would imagine you can probably buy an almost identical vinyl by the metre for not much money.

Just get a staple gun and reupholster the base would be my advice.

[Wacky Racer]

LR90 said:

I would imagine you can probably buy an almost identical vinyl by the metre for not much money.

Just get a staple gun and reupholster the base would be my advice.

Thanks,

After ten minutes scraping with my fingernails.

[trixical]

For the frequency you use them I'd have said duct tape WR but scratching it all off works, I get tonnes of enquiries with the exact same issue.

[Ezra]

I'd be going the full Blue Peter with sticky backed plastic!

[CoolHands]

Jumping in, does anyone know (link?) what a suitably powerful stapler is for recovering dining room chairs? Similar situation to op. For DIY. I’m assuming you can buy electric ones or something?

[trixical]

CoolHands said:

Jumping in, does anyone know (link?) what a suitably powerful stapler is for recovering dining room chairs? Similar situation to op. For DIY. I’m assuming you can buy electric ones or something?

Electric ones are for the most part awful, use too thicker gauge staples & don't fire home fully in my experience, if you've got a compressor in your arsenal already then grab a pneumatic one which will do it properly

[CoolHands]

Ok, (I have no compressor). Can the manual ones manage? you know the proper ones that are fun to fire like a gun? For notice boards etc

[OldPal]

I think I have the same chairs OP which we had recovered a few years ago. Cost us around £600 for 6 chairs iirc more padding and a nicer leather it was well worth it.

For the stapler advice try the spot nails maestri. Used by carpet fitters to fit gripper and carpet to bull nose steps. Good bit of kit but it’s about £180

[LooneyTunes]

trixical said:

CoolHands said:

Jumping in, does anyone know (link?) what a suitably powerful stapler is for recovering dining room chairs? Similar situation to op. For DIY. I’m assuming you can buy electric ones or something?

Electric ones are for the most part awful, use too thicker gauge staples & don't fire home fully in my experience, if you've got a compressor in your arsenal already then grab a pneumatic one which will do it properly

We bought a Makita cordless electric one for stapling heavyweight geotex to reclaimed oak sleepers, a task it managed without difficulty. Has also been used for various other builing-related stapling jobs. Haven’t tried for upholstery, but reckon it’d probably cope with it.

[Byker28i]

I bought a cheap bosche cordless one for an armchair project during covid. Worked well for the task, but check what size staples it can take. Mine doesn't take really long ones.

All done using staples, apart from the cushion cover.

[Byker28i]

For the dining room Chair, you can buy matching vinyl/leather cheaply and just recover if you remove the base
I used some of this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0855NPWLN/ref...

[Zero Fuchs]

I can highly recommend Furniture Clinic products for repairing leather but your seat looks too far gone unfortunately. Might be worth contacting them though as they're really helpful.

I've repaired leather (gear knob) and also completely recoloured some chairs to good effect but it does look like you need to re cover that base.

Not entirely relevant but the knob in my MR2 had been worn down badly due to the previous owner. You can tell where the damage is but not at a glance.