I need to re-upholseter 4 dining chairs with drop-in seats. The current drop in seat frames are very damaged and full of old tacks and holes so I want to replace them, I was thinking to replace with solid plywood but am tempted to try making a plywood frame with the centre cut out and using webbing to support the foam, to make the seats more comfortable.
Do we have a webbing stretcher? And if anyone has done anything similar I’d appreciate any advice. I feel a bit like a vandal for ditching the original seat frames but they’re very creaky and knackered and I’m guessing were never intended to last forever.
hi! my mum did an upholstery course recently, and my two aunts have both done quite a bit of upholstery. I can probably borrow the webber my mum has if you want to borrow it off me?
Advice is to check that plywood will be strong enough because the stretched webbing puts a lot of stress on the frame. My mum sent some info from a book she has. The pictures are not in order here and I can’t seem to get them in order, but it will hopefully make sense!
Hannah thank you so much! That’s really useful and the step by step instructions in your book are much clearer than anything I’ve found online. I’d love to borrow the stretcher please if that’s not awkward to arrange. I think I’ll use a solid piece of ply and cut out of the centre of it for the webbing so it should be nice and strong.
