The nuances of bed repair at home, step-by-step recommendations

New furniture is comfort, coziness and aesthetic pleasure. But some 7-10 years will pass and your favorite bed or sofa will begin to age: the wooden frame in some places cracks, the upholstery breaks, the foam base sags. Many owners begin to look differently at the bed and are thinking about replacing it. Of course, you can buy new furniture, but you can try to repair it. Repairing beds and sofas helps to extend the life of your once favorite furniture, as well as save money in the family budget. With a desire and a little knowledge, you can easily restore your furniture. First you need to understand what the cause of the breakdown is.

What to do when a creak appears

On a creaky bed, it’s inconvenient to fall asleep yourself, besides it makes people uncomfortable. It is not possible to pinpoint the origin of this unpleasant sound. It can come from the base or partitions, metal connections of the product.

The main measures to eliminate squeaking:

1. First of all, they are determined in the material from which the bed frame is made;
2. Check all connection points. It is necessary to tighten the connecting elements: screws, screws, screws, bolts with nuts. For reliability, they can be treated with a special furniture composition. Replacement of this composition will also serve as wax and soap;
3. Carefully inspect the mattress, especially the spring. The cause of an unpleasant sound can be springs;
4. If lamellas are used instead of springs, then broken elements can easily be replaced with new ones;
5. Particular attention should be paid to the legs at the base of the bed. Now the choice of legs is huge and the selection of suitable ones will not be difficult;
6. If the creak is made by boards lying too close to each other, there are several options for elimination - the boards are interchanged, the base is turned over or the places of contact are treated with grease.

The most successful and one hundred percent way to get rid of squeak in the connecting elements is to replace old fasteners and nodes with new ones. And it is not necessary for these purposes to call a specialized company for help, you can carry out independent bed repairs at home.

The acquisition of furniture and its choice is truly difficult and responsible. To avoid creaking, buy reliable metal products and forged models of bed bases.

Check connecting fastenersThen - mattress springsShould check for creaking lamellasThen legs

Restoration of children's upholstered furniture

If a child’s bed is broken, it should be immediately eliminated, because deformation of the surface of the berth will eventually affect the child’s health, his posture and well-being.

Some of the most common cribs in cots include:

• The lifting mechanism in a sliding or built-in bed;
• Wooden partitions of the base and the frame itself due to normal wear of the material or any extraneous mechanical impact;
• Installed fragile decorative legs on furniture with a strong impact (intense play of children, jumping on the bed);
• Poor mattresses and deformation of the product, which negatively affects the health of the child;
• Additional elements: armrests, drawers and sections.

Before buying new furniture, you need to try to fix the old bed. Broken parts can be replaced, and some elements can be fixed by yourself. There are several types of lifting devices in furniture design and each has its own characteristics. In order to repair the lifting mechanism of the bed, you need to have some knowledge and skill, so this process is best left to a specialist.

The main reasons for the breakdown of children's furniture:

1. Children, unfortunately, often take care of furniture. They perceive it as an element of the game, jumping on it, using it in the form of a trampoline;
2. The tree from which the construction of the bed or sofa is made has the property of exfoliating, cracking. Natural wear of the material leads to various breakdowns of the product;
3. Sometimes, design flaws lead to premature failure of a furniture sample. This is the incorrect location of the lifting devices or legs at the base of the frame. As a result, the furniture body is affected by significant mechanical stresses breaking furniture;
4. Poor assembly of the structure, when the lifting mechanism is installed in places not provided for by the furniture assembly scheme, due to the incompetence of the worker who performs the operations.

Due to the variety of building materials and tools, you can try to repair the bed at home. The result should be good furniture. A renovated bed is a new object in the interior of the apartment for small funds.

It is worth noting that the repair of beds with built-in lifting mechanisms of complex design is quite difficult. It is recommended to change the side drawers, lamellas or the base itself under an orthopedic mattress. The walls where the lifting devices are installed, it is better to purchase factory-made. The procedure for repairing a baby bed is no different from the step-by-step recovery of large adult bedroom sets.

See if any broken partsThe mattress must be wholeCheck the lifting gear

Restoration

Bed repair at home includes several stages:

1. The surface where it is planned to carry out work is covered with a film so that dust and dirt do not fall on the floor;
2. Furniture is disassembled according to structural elements: side panels, backs, armrests. They are numbered and stacked;
3. Fixing parts set aside separately;
4. Upholstery material is removed and taken apart;
5. Inspect the bed frame for cracks and other damage. If any are found, parts of the furniture are replaced;
6. They make new upholstery and assemble furniture;
7. You can include any decorated elements in the furniture design, for example, installing mirrors at the head on the sides in a frame similar to the decoration of the bed.

We disassemble the furnitureFolding fastenersRemove the old upholsteryInspect the frameMaking a new upholsteryWe collect furniture

Mattress recovery

The main condition for restoring upholstered furniture is a solid frame. The mattress is also one of the structural elements of the soft bed, which needs proper care. One mattress is enough for a child for about five years, after which it is better to replace the product with a new one. This is because the baby is growing and gaining weight and height. As a result, the mattress deforms and loses its orthopedic properties over time.

Spring mattresses are very popular, which still remain on the list in first place in terms of sales. This product has an excellent orthopedic effect, a long service life, which often reaches up to 12-15 years. The service life depends on the use and storage of the product and may slightly differ from the figures indicated. When a failure occurs, it is not necessary to purchase a new mattress in the store, you can try to restore it.

It is possible to repair the mattress of the bed at home. To do this, stock up on the following tools: a hammer and nails, a furniture stapler and slats, a foam roller and fabric for upholstering furniture.

First you need to make sure the type of mattress. The first option is for use on sleeping beds, the second - on sofas. Their difference lies in the shape of the corners: mattresses with right angles in the beds, and rounded on the sofas. Performing operations to restore the product is accompanied by the presence of debris and dust. Therefore, work is recommended to be done outdoors. If this is not possible and the mattress needs to be repaired within the apartment, then a vacuum cleaner is prepared in advance to get rid of excess dust and dirt.

The main stages of how to repair a spring mattress for a bed with your own hands at home:

1. The workplace must be prepared in such a way that access to the mattress is accessible from all sides. An excellent solution would be to install four stools at the corners of the mattress. The product is laid on stools with the soft side. Paper clips and fasteners are removed from the base, the thread is removed;
2. Change the flooring and clean from dust the fabric insulating base of the springs. Cut the harness and release each spring;
3. Eliminate defects and tidy up the base of the mattress: attach torn slats and pieces of fabric in place;
4. Each spring is mounted vertically so that it rises above the frame by 10 centimeters;
5. The fastening of the old springs to the rails is performed by belts;
6. At the end of the installation of the springs, they begin to bind. To do this, nails are stuffed along the edge of the frame. The upper part is tied with a rope of small diameter. Work in rows - first transverse rows, then longitudinal. The rope is not pulled too much to avoid tight fit of the springs to each other;
7. Run the rows diagonally and bend the nails;
8. The resulting network with springs is closed with lining material. Usually they are the fabric, which is clamped with slats on the frame.

Put the mattress on the floorWe get the fillerFind the broken partsInstalling new springsFasten the padding and fillerDone

Video

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