How to cover the sofa

Good changes like, if not all, then most accurately. I caught an end old, but such a familiar and favorite sofa, but there is no money for a new money or just you have cried it so much that you feel sorry to throw out? Update it, put on it a beautiful, harmony with the interior of the room, the overtake and it will be transformed, and you do not have to be upset, looking every time on the old rhochable. How to cover the sofa with your own hands and at the same time to repair, it will be lower.

Perhaps you need to start out of what is not possible without anything.

Tool

In order to do not be distracted during such an exciting process during such a fascinating process, collect a tool in advance that is in the house, and if not all, then take the missing. Stocking need here:

• screwdriver set;
• hammer;
• scissors;
• stapler with a margin of brackets. The most suitable 8 or 10th mm;
• passports;
• wrenches wrench different;
• self-made;
• screwdriver;
• glue - best of all PVA.

Sofa tight material

Decorative material

The intake fabric must comply with the basic requirements:

• be durable
• maintain your initial view when contacting the external environment;
• easily clean.

Most often use:

• tapestry is dense, noble, has a dust-repellent property. Suitable for retro style design;
• jacquard is very aesthetic, with a bilateral pattern of artificial silk. Looks solid, it is well cleaned;
• flock - the basis of natural and whether artificial: cotton, polyester, respectively. Velvety, volumetric, pleasant when touching. The main dignity - the cat can scratch how much, traces will not be seen. Cleaning tolerates good, both dry and wet;

• velur - Durable Material, Low Night, does not mind;

• shinyl - reminds velor, but better. Material is semi-synthetic or natural, durable, durable, breathable;

• nonwoven and woven artificial suede - the material is environmentally friendly, strong. At first glance it is difficult to distinguish from suede natural. It is well cleaned, you can even wash with warm water;
• the skin is genuine or artificial. Material is practical and durable.

What else?

In addition to decorative, another consumable material will also be required. So take care and get a job:

• furniture ribbon;
• foam
• braid;
• check on Cant.

How to cover the old sofa?

To determine how much it costs to cover the sofa, first disassemble it and determine which items need to be changed. For clarity, consider a specific sofa with a telescopic mechanism.

Components of the sofa

The sofa consists of the following parts:

• backs;
• seats;
• armrests;
• lower part - Tsargi;
• locks to secure the back.

Disassembly

• Unscrew the bolts that hold the armrests on the basis;
• we remove the seats;
• disconnect the king;
• the sofa decreases and turn over the facial part to the floor;
• we remove the back;
• remove the locks;
• dismantle the seats;
• we remove old fasteners: nails, brackets;
• we remove the old workout;
• take out everything that the sofa filled;
• if the springs are integers, then we leave as it is, and if you are faulty, we take out the block.

Note: discontinued disk do not throw away. When you sew new covers, older will serve you as a pattern for pattern.

We repair internal parts

First we repair the spring blocks located in armrests and the back:

• faulty springs unscrew with pliers;
• install in the block, if necessary, new springs;
• fix blocks with nails on the frame.

Since the springs that we did not replace, still have wear, especially on the seat, make them more elastic:

• reproduce on small pieces of foam rubber;
• the spring block is tightly soldered by pieces of foam rubber;
• well, if there is an old blanket - they can cover the spring block from above, if not, we select some other similar material. It is possible to use burlap for these purposes;
• you feed the material layer with nails to the frame;
• springs to the observer material are sewn using a thick needle and twine;
• between springs can be formed. We add a package to them: whether the foam rubber is or cotton;
• we cover all the binding material with a knee or bump, tightly pulling it and fixing with nails;
• foam rubber sheets with glue on one side;
• the smeared side laid them over the material. It will stick and lie smoothly.

On a note: If they come across the springs, they should not be thrown away, instead this, stretch them. They will serve on. To the sofa look more voluminous, the Sindepon can be seized over the foam rubber.

All the works that needed to fulfill before covering the old sofa behind. Now the most interesting thing:

We sew covers

• we lay out on the big table or on the floor fabric, which was chosen for an intestine, waste. Old covers left - remember?
• we supply in chalk samples;
• retention, leaving the allowance;
• compress on the typewriter.

Dress up sofa

• We wear covers on armrests, back, seat;
• places where new clothes will be mounted, should remain in the same place where old covers were fixed;
• fix the covers in the stapler, while taking the fabric every time you rob next fasteners.

It will help you: so that the crush lay smoothly, start doing the work on the long side and move to short.

Assembly

The assembly is performed in the reversal sequence:

• strictly follow the coincidence of labels;
• krepim castle to the back, then to the seat and to the king;
• mount the sidewalls;
• krepim to sidewalls armrests;
• fix the wooden panels, after checking them, if required.

As you can see to cover the sofa, everyone who wants this very much, because there is nothing impossible for a fond of person.

How to cover the sofa book

In many houses there are still a book sofas or, as they are also called, sofas beds. This sofa-old design is simple:

• seat;
• back;
• bals.

The main thing is that it differs from the rest of the sofas, this is that the back and seat are covered with one common case, which when folding and laying is simply driving. Just bend and is a weak point in its design: there the case is most often torn. If you have in your apartment this legacy of Soviet times and have already decided to get rid of it, do not hurry: replace, cover with budgetary material and carry to the cottage, it will be like a find.

We disassemble and repair

The work will consist of the following operations:

• remove the side walls;
• disconnect the mechanism by which the sofa is folded and folded;
• sleeping is removed from the pallet and turn over;
• the back and seat are discharged;
• we study the state of the removed mechanisms. If they are spoiled, you will have to change;
• remove the case;
• we take out the springs, most likely they have been worn out. What to do with them, you know, since we talked about it above;
• with all the rest, we do the same as in the case of a sofa equipped with a telescopic mechanism.

And is it important: since the sofa has two mechanisms, try not to confuse them: right install on the right side, and the left - with the left, otherwise you will not be able to fold the finished sofa.

How to cover the sofa leather

The sofa with the upholstery of the skin looks respectable. If this natural material is tightened to the sofa without having at least a little experience, then it is possible to fail. First learn the question thoroughly. As the skin cover the sofa, the photo available on the Internet will certainly help, somehow focusing in terms of the material selection, but better if you see the whole process. On the topic, covering the sofa video will allow you to familiarize yourself with all problems arising in the way, small nuances.

A little dotted experience theoretically? Then proceed. The process will consist of several stages.

Sequence of work

1. We disassemble:

• first dismantle the armrests;
• disconnect the back and seat;
• very carefully remove the old covers;
• check what is being done inside;
• we change what has become unusable.

2. The old oven as a pattern will not use. Here you need great accuracy, because in order for such a material to cover the sofa the price will have to pay decent, so we make patterns. At the same time with the details of the exterior decoration, cut out and lining, and for this you need a special adhesive material.

3. Once again, I check everything, Crow.

4. You can sew, while:

• undercoming operation Excellation - the needle will leave holes;
• elements of upholstery with inside fix sticking ribbon;
• foot of the sewing machine, moving the material may cause it to warp. To avoid this, lubricate the skin with petroleum jelly, it will slide easily, without stopping under the foot.

5. allowances, which we left for joints with shearing, after parts sewn together and will form the front side will stick out tubercle. The surface is smooth, sever allowances and ironed them lightly with warm iron over soaked in water and wrung gauze.

6. Glue oversizes from the wrong side;

7. superimpose a self-adhesive backing;

8. Seams better enhance using tape.

Feathering

• Very carefully, dress covers, smoothing them along the way;
• fasten covers to detail sofa staple gun;
• we collect the sofa structure.

A bit of skin like material stitched

If the skin itself obtyanut sofa cost him, of course, will be lower than if you bought a new one. However, the skin should really be quality, then it is completely justified paid for her price. The skin has obvious advantages:

• just clean it;
• it is hygienic;
• resistant to abrasion;
• elastic;
• hardy;
• soft and pleasant.

Excellent skin group Pelle Nobile for furniture produced in Italy. Here there are samples and are very expensive and the average price. Skin Feature Pelle Nobile - naturalness. When processing is applied at least chemicals stored natural upper layer with an inherent pattern.

In Russia, too, produce quality furniture skin - it Dizzaro. Manufacturer - tannery in Ryazan. quality leather provides:

• tested starting material;
• application only qualitative chemistry;
• the latest equipment;
• control at all stages;
• international certificate.

Naturally, the skin from the Russian manufacturer is cheaper than from the Italian.

Choosing a foam

Buying a filler for a sofa as foam rubber, polyurethane foam and accurately described, it is necessary to pay attention to such characteristics:

• density. For parts with different load selected with unequal foam density: sidushki for more and for armrests and backrests slightly less:

1. Most loaded seat, so you need to take the foam density of 30 kg per 1 cubic m - Brand EL3040, and even higher - EL4050, only its super soft polyurethane foam Cover the brand HS;
2. On the armrests and backrest suitable density 25 kg / m3.

• Softness;
• elasticity.

High-quality, safe PPU, which meets all standards, produces the Russian company Murovograph. It applies to his advantages:

• environmental friendliness;
• hypoallergenicity;
• democratic value.