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I noticed the other twenty-four hour period that the inner seat portion of our total-size leather couch was sagging down–too much throwing ourselves down on the couch I guess. I had already repaired our love seat so I knew what was happening and knew I could set up it. Finally I'm documenting the procedure so you can set up your couch besides. Follow along to learn how to repair a cleaved couch frame. If nothing else, this article will give you the confidence to go ahead in tear into your couch and take a shot at repairing it instead of replacing it.

Diagram of sagging couch — My sagging couch explained

Hardware:

Any upholstered woods-frame couch, love seat, or chair.

Tools Needed:

How to Repair a Broken Couch Frame

Pace 1: Plough your couch over.

For this repair I simply laid our couch on its back. The chief goal is to give yourself access to the material that covers the bottom of the burrow, so you can pull the necessary staples to requite yourself access to the frame within.

Couch laying on back — Burrow laying on back

Step 2: Remove the legs from the areas you will be working.

Because I will exist working on the top two corners as seen in the picture show above, I unscrewed the ii front legs.

Couch Leg Unscrewed — Burrow Leg Unscrewed

Step 3: Pry out the staples from the edge of the lesser covering material.

I used a thin flat screwdriver to get under the staples (pardon the slightly blurry movie but you get the point).

Prying staples up from the bottom material of the couch — Prying staples upward from the bottom material of the couch

Be careful not to jab into the leather (or whatever material your burrow is covered with). If I was very conscientious I could completely pull the staple out but frequently I was just able to lift 1 side of the staple out. In that instance, simply pull the staple out with a pliers:

Pulling Couch Staples With Pliers — Pull out the staples with a pliers

Once you get enough staples out you tin can lay back the material and get a look inside. Below I prove how the couch was shifting inside–the middle portion of the couch was essentially held in place by one bolt on each side along with some staples, not enough:

The shifting frame of my couch — The shifting frame of my burrow

I would be generous near pulling staples so you can have piece of cake admission to the insides of the couch. I ended upward removing more, to give more admission, multiple times and you can always go back and remove more later and yous tin can easily remove them all if you lot had a serious repair to do.

Step 4: Do what yous need to exercise to re-align the couch frame.

I used a quick grip to diagonally pull from the outside lath to the commodities on the within to re-align the 2 parts, every bit seen in the 2 pictures below:

Re-aligning the couch frame — Re-aligning the burrow frame

Step v: Drill pilot holes for your screws.

Nosotros are working with particle board hither and then you really should drill pilot holes for your screws. This is especially of import for screws that are nearly the edge, because you lot could blow out the border of the board because particle board is fragile. I used a iii/32″ drill flake to drill the pilot holes.Important annotation: Brand sure the frame is correctly lined up Before you drill the holes.

I put three screws into the edge of the bottom plate as shown here — I put three screws into the edge of the bottom plate equally shown here

It was very hard to run across the holes in the particle lath in the pictures so I started all the screws then you lot could see where I placed the rest of them beneath:

Layout of the screws I added to repair the frame

I chose 1 1/4″ drywall screws for connecting two parallel sheets together and ii″ drywall screws for screwing through a canvass into the edge of another board as diagramed in a higher place.

Pace 6: Drive your screws.

I used my love 20-year-sometime Makita 9.half dozen V cordless drill to drive the screws.

Drive the screws into the frame to secure it together — Bulldoze the screws into the frame to secure it together

The seams lined up and the gaps tightened up nicely for me:

Step vii: Repeat as necessary.

I would be liberal with your screws 🙂 You don't want to have to do this once again so now is the fourth dimension to ready your burrow now and forever. If your couch is damaged worst than mine you place 2×2'due south along the seams and spiral them in place to add force. My burrow was in good plenty shape that what I did above was sufficient. I fixed both sides of my couch.

Stride 8: Reattach the upholstery onto the bottom of the couch.

Fold the edge of the material over, like it was originally:

Re-Fold the Material — Follow the previous folding pattern to go the material set up to exist stapled (never mind the stains)

Ready to Staple Lower Material Back on Couch — Staple the material back in identify

Then start in the corner and tack into place.

Start by stapling the corner and then work down each edge — Start by stapling the corner and then work downwards each edge

Now you can see the difference of aligning the internal frame of the couch:

Repaired Couch Frame Results — The bottom border of the couch lines up now that the frame has been repaired

Footstep 9: Reinstall the burrow's feet.

Screw the feet back on.

Now you lot accept given more life to your comfy couch!

One well-loved repair couch — One well-loved repaired burrow

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