DIY furniture repair

Damage to home furniture occurs quite often for various reasons. For example, if it is located near heating or heating appliances, if the room has a lack of humidity or an elevated temperature, the furniture can simply stick out, and the veneer on it will peel off or bubble. What are the most popular options for the conclusion of furniture mz system are still observed?

• Transportation and rearrangement. For obvious reasons, scratches, cracks, tears, breaks in parts, broken hardware and other troubles are formed.
• Long term use. Old furniture may dry out, connections are broken, lacquer and sheathing are erased, accessories break.
• Various insects. Pests can significantly reduce the life of any furniture, and they do this quite often and with pleasure.

Damaged furniture needs to be repaired as soon as possible, otherwise it will be much more difficult, if not impossible, in the future. Let's take a closer look.

Exfoliated veneer: how to glue it?

Often furniture is covered with veneer made of precious wood. Veneer gives a beautiful appearance, furniture shrinks and warps less. What is the most common reason for veneer peeling? Of course, this is a high dampness of the room, because the tree does not like moisture. First, cracks and swelling form, then the material can peel off. How to fix it? To begin, the veneer should be ironed with a hot iron through a paper sheet. If the procedure does not give a result, then along the fibers with a reward it is necessary to make a small file, then slightly raise the edge of the veneer and coat the base on both sides with a file and grate it. If glue leaked at the incision points, it must be carefully removed. This can be done using a sharp cycle or a jamb knife. What's next? Now take a pointed wooden stick and bleach the seam with a solution of oxalic acid. After that, you can pick up the stain for the type of coating, process the seam several times and cover with colorless varnish.

If the veneer is removed at the end of the furniture, along the edge. In this case, the base of the damaged piece is lubricated with glue and the peeled veneer is rubbed. What is better to use for grinding? To do this, you can take a block of solid wood and cover it in several layers with a piece of flannel. This is to prevent damage to the varnish.

The veneer is deposited and the base is visible. To eliminate the defect, it is necessary to glue and grind the edges of the damaged area, then putty, tint with stain and pass the varnish several times.

Furniture with polished or varnished surfaces: how to eliminate mechanical damage?

Such defects most often occur at the ends and corners of furniture. How to fix a flaw? First, the damaged area must be puttied and primed. The grease is prepared from wood flour and mixed with glue (carpentry). But flour can be replaced with chalk powder, talcum powder or pumice. Sometimes they use rosin grease, which consists of a rosin mixture, zinc white and wood flour (proportion 6-3-1). In such a composition, it is necessary to add a pigment of a certain color. The grease is used preheated. And to seal the cracks, a sealing wax selected by color is used.

If a crack appears on the lacquer layer. If you determine exactly what varnish the furniture was coated with, the problem can be solved by treating the damaged surface with a solvent.

The surface coated with alcohol varnish or varnish can be polished with ethyl alcohol. The surface with nitro-varnish can be treated with solvents: No. 646, KR-36 and 647, or acetone.Small scratches on polyester and nitrocellulose varnish can be removed if wiped with abrasive sandpaper along the scratch and polished with polishing paste No. 290, after which it is necessary to treat with a VAZ-3 automotive tool.

How to fix potholes and chips on chipboard furniture? Such defects can be corrected with putty, which is prepared on the basis of chalk or talc, wood flour, mixed with PVA glue or Supercement. And of course, the mixture must be mixed with pigment to match the color of the furniture. The solution is applied to the defective surface, after which the material should dry (approximately 2-3 days). After the place must be sanded. If the furniture was varnished, then after filling it must be treated with colorless varnish. Potholes and chips can also be treated with liquid putty with a hardener and pigment to match the color of the furniture. The solution mixes well and is applied to the damaged area. Glossy paper or tracing paper can be placed on top of the putty and pressed down with an iron. After hardening the solution, it is not necessary to grind the surface, you can simply remove the tracing paper.

DIY furniture repair damaged by grinder bugs

If on the outer surface of the furniture you suddenly find round, small holes (about 2-3 mm), examine it from the inside, you most likely have grinder beetles. These are small insects that are very fond of wooden products. By the way, some of them emit a characteristic “ticking” sound, similar to the rhythm of a clock. Furniture that is "crafted" by such insects is destroyed and can turn into dust. In this case, the product cannot be repaired. But with minor damage, there are several ways to solve the problem. First, just buy a new part and replace it with the old one. Second, take a syringe, fill it with liquid paraffin, inject it into the hole and cover the surface with window putty, paraffin or wax. After a couple of weeks, the procedure must be repeated.

How to repair worn and broken furniture parts

First of all, you need to know: cracked and damaged furniture is repaired immediately after a flaw is discovered. Otherwise, the pins and spikes can be deformed at the joints and repair the furniture will be much harder. So do not debug later, especially since correcting deficiencies is not difficult. If you notice that some parts of the furniture are not tightly connected, then you can proceed with the repair. For this place of future gluing, it is necessary to clean from the old glue. You can do this with sandpaper. After they need to be greased with casein, carpentry or PVA glue, squeezed tightly with a clamp, bandaged with twine and pulled it with wooden wedges as tight as possible. It will also be nice to put some kind of load on the parts to be glued, so they will better clutch. If clearances appear at the junction points after cleaning the spikes, it is necessary to drive thin wooden wedges into them, having previously lubricated them with glue. Small gaps can be removed with a cloth soaked with glue or putty.

In a stool with a metal cast frame in the socket where the leg is screwed in, the thread breaks. We fix it as follows: we take a nut with an identical thread and grind the end face, leaving two protrusions. In the hole with a deformed thread, we make two cuts under the nut ledges with the help of a file, and in the seat it is necessary to choose a recess for it. Next, wet the nut and screw the leg.

Shattered chairs with struts in the structure connecting the frame are also repairable. For this, holes are drilled: in the legs of small depth, and in the struts - through. Then it is necessary to screw the screws until the pores are tightened until the legs and struts are pulled together.

Particleboard furniture sometimes pleases with falling doors. This is due to poor fastening of the screws on the walls. In this case, it is necessary to carefully drill holes for the screw (diameter 8 mm), drive the wooden cork into it (pre-coated with glue) and screw the screw into it already.

By the way, when drilling a polished plate, it is better to wrap the drill with a felt washer. This will protect the surface from damage, even if the drill passes through.

Let's consider the repair of old furniture with our own hands on the example of the restoration of the cabinet in the video