Chair Repair

Today's post falls under the category of: if you don't take care of what you have, you won't have anything.

We have some nice wooden chairs that take a ton of abuse from our teenagers. Occasionally, they pull apart.

If a chair in this condition isn't immediately repaired, the chair could break and be ruined. Chair repairs are very simple and anyone can do it. You can repair the chair the easy way or the hard way.

The hard way? Pull the chair completely apart at all the joints. Clean the joints. And Re-glue the chair.

I am going to do the repair the easy way; I am only going to reglue the joints that have come undone.

There is a lot of different kinds of glue out there and everyone has their favorite. This one is my favorite for a very simple reason: it has a screw on cap that prevents the tip from hardening. There is nothing worse than grabbing your glue bottle and having to chip away at harden glue, or try to pull out a nail or pin that has been glued solidly to the nozzle. With this glue, I simply unscrew the cap and I am ready to go.

I clean any loose glue from the joint and then apply ample new glue to the hole and the peg.

I then put the peg back into the hole and apply pressure until the glue sets. I make sure to wipe up any extra glue that has squeezed out of the joint.

The glue I use takes 24 hours to fully set, so, the chair gets set aside for a day.

That is all there is to it!