6 Useful Tricks To Repair Wood Furniture

Friday, January 13, 2012, 18:07

To repair wood furniture at home is no rocket science. If you want to do it then you can do it and with the increasing rates of wood craftsmen you should try to do yourself first. Most of us have wooden furniture at home and they need repairs often. If you have the right kind of tools at home then you can easily restore your furniture to proper shape.

You need not have the tools of specialist; the job can be done with the most basic home repair tools that almost every tool box has. Here are some tricks to to repair wood furniture yourself.

Tricks To Repair Wood Furniture At Home:

1. Hanging Hinges: Wooden door are the best and most elegant looking doors for your home but the only problem with them is that they keep coming off the hinge. You don't have to get unhinged because the doors or the lids of your wooden chest have got unhinged. You just need a pair of good pliers in your home tool box to tighten the hinges. You also need someone to hold the door for you lest it collapses on you.

2. Loose Screws: If your tables and chairs made of wood are bolted or screwed then it will come off with age. As the wear and tear of your furniture happens you will have to repair your wood furniture for loose screws. Actually it is simple enough, just get a screw driver of appropriate size and tighten it.

3. Unglued Pieces: Most wooden furniture is glued instead of screwed. It a more reliable method that the screws and bolts but if the glue is not good quality or if the furniture comes in contact with water, it comes off. You have by the best quality glue for wood from a hardware store, mix it up and stick your furniture together.

4. Wood Chipping Off: Chipping of wood happens after you move to a new place. It the packers have not packed it with enough cushion, the wood starts chipping due to rough handling. In that case take a leveler from your home tool box and rub it on the wood surface. The leveler is usually a block or a can be a sheet too. It evens out the chipped surface to stop further chipping.

5. Anti Termite Treatment: To restore furniture that has become termite infested you need to apply a coat of anti termite paint or disinfectants. If you fail to do that, soon your furniture would be beyond repair.

6. Prop It Up Fresh Support: Sometimes you have to replaces parts of your furniture to restore it. Suppose the base holding your dining table has worn off then the table is not going to stand on that eroded piece of wood forever. You have no choice but to replace it with a similar shaped piece of carved wood.