Household Repairs Seat of side chair torn, shabby. Turn chair upside down and remove the four screws that hold seat in place. Remove old cover and use it as a pattern for new cover. (If using a strongly patterned print, be sure that feature of design is centered.) Wrap new cover tightly around seat and secure four sides with tacks. Miter corners. Then tack all the way around the seat with 5/16" tacks spaced about 1 1/2" apart.

Seat of overstuffed chair sagging. Turn chair upside down, remove dust cover and webbing. Tie bottom coils of springs together and to the frame. Be sure springs are evenly spaced in straight lines. Replace old webbing with new. The strips should be spaced so that each spring rests squarely on a crossing of the strips. Double the ends of the webbing to increase holding strength and fasten to bottom of chair frame with 3/4" tacks. Webbing should be interwoven and pulled flat and tight across bottom of frame. To pull it tight, use a webbing stretcher, or fold end of webbing around a board, brace board against chair frame and bend it down. Tack webbing strip once to hold. Then cut it off about 2" beyond the chair frame, double back the end and put in three or four more tacks. To assure against movement of springs, sew them to webbing with coarse thread or light string. Replace dust cover.




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November 21, 2008