r/furniturerepair

I have an old wooden chair with cracks on both sides of the joints on the back. What is the best way to glue it back together without clamps ? Appreciate any suggestion.

I dropped this stool and the back part of the seat broke off. It is a pretty clean break, along the line where it was screwed into the legs. How should I repair this and cover the break line after?

Any suggestions for salvaging? I’m a complete novice, but it’s a gorgeous antique game table I’d love to repair.

Hi all I’ve stupidly left a hot pan on my wooden table and it’s now left this burnt mark!! I’m moving out of this property in 20 days and I need this mark gone! Help what do I do!!

I bought these gorgeous chairs second-hand, but am noticing three distinct issues:

1. Long depressions in the seat (photo 2)
2. Small chips on the edges (photo 3)
3. Large chips on the edges (photo 4)

How do I fix these? For 1, I saw something about putting a wet cloth on and steaming, but I’m worried that would go poorly because the surface is varnished? I'm also not sure how sanding would go, given it's plywood (see photo 5 for photo of layers).

Also totally okay if the answer is: this is not fixable! Figured I would ask.

My boss let me take this “broken” desk chair home from the warehouse. Wanted some advice on what parts I could acquire to make it function again.

The entire chair is good as new. Only this part is coming apart due to my bad posture. I don't want to spend on changing the cover of the entire chair because it's really big and really fine everywhere else.

The seating part is important and most used so I'm concerned and want to fix it before it expands.

Have this old school desk that's been sitting in an un air-conditioned shed. Where should I start to try ro fix it, never done something like this before. Or is this more for a professional? Any help is appreciated!

Seat back broke off of seat. The wood on the seat broke and the bolts pulled through. The seat back is intact. What is the best way to repair the wood on the seat? Once the wood is repaired how do I drill bolt holes to line up perfectly?

Are there any other options?

Thank you

Is this repairable? Doesn’t need to be perfect.

Old absolute beast of a couch. I actually grew up with this couch, so a bit of nostalgia too. This End Up is the brand (they still exist too).

Metal piping supporting sleeper sofa broke. The couch is 30+ years old.

I want to repair as the wood parts are still solid and it has newer cushions that also still look good.

Do I

a) find someone to weld the broken tubing back together.

b) buy some steel tubing and attempt to fabricate a replacement part. It will need rivets to put back in place.

c) chuck the sleeper sofa mechanism and build a wood platform for the cushions.

Replacing the entire sleeper mechanism costs $1000+ at that price I could almost just buy the new version of this exact couch..

Any suggestions of how best to patch up the cracks on the door after sanding down and painting? What are the best products to use? Based in the UK.

I accidentally spilled acetone nail polish remover yesterday onto this chest. I bought restore a finish and rubbed the product on the spots using a paper towel but I don’t see any improvement.

any tips on what else I can do to remove these stains?

I'm not sure, despite trying to find the terminology on several sites, exactly what the term is for the part I'm having a problem with. So I attached a photo of the leg assembly (from the top as the chair is upside-down for repair, first photo) and a detail of the bolt holders on the leg (second photo). Looking for the correct name (and method of immobilizing) what the inner bolt screws into. Closest term I've seen is "threaded insert."

The chair I have has a non-tapered bolt that screws into a bolt holder (threaded insert?) on the chair leg, and one of them keeps backing out despite having tried using wood glue before.

It's a wider threaded bolt itself, screws in with a 6mm allen wrench, then, when it's seated, I can screw in the bolt that keeps the leg attached.

It's driving me crazy because it needs fussing every 2-4 days and I worry I'm going to miss one of the times it needs repair and damage the chair.

Should I be using epoxy for this? Or?

How would you go about fixing this? Movers damaged the corner and I don’t have the piece that was chipped out. About 1” x 1”. I was thinking wood filler or bondo then iron on veneer over the top or trying to cut out more to fit solid wood back in.

I help out in a community repair cafe, this item was brought in with a broken tenon. I was going to make a loose tenon but then realised the wood is only 12mm wide, requiring just 4mm tenon which seems too weak. I'm thinking I need something bolted through or attached underneath, what do you reckon?