Frame on love seat broke
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Marlene
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I have this love seat that just decided to follow suit with everything else in the house and break. It's the least sat on piece of furniture too, go figure! The wooden frame broke apart at the corner. Should I nail it? Use metal corner clamps? Or is there some type of glue? Any help would be appreciated. As it sits there in the living room upside down, I swear it laughs at me as I walk around it. Thank you for any suggestions.
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Much of the modern upholstered furniture made today has no dowels or mortises at the corners, just held together with the staples across the joint. Just remove enough of the covering to expose the area and figure out if you can get a 3/8 or 7/16 dowel or two across the joint. Then go inside the frame and put the largest corner block you can fit in the corner, make it fir tight and hold it in place with two screws at each end. You ought to do the other corners too. Cover it up and enjoy! There is a saying about the industry, "Flash over trash" Nice cover over a garbage frame. You are about to get your first hand education into that fact.
Reed
on Dec 03, 2014
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Marlene, are you able to post a picture of the damaged corner of the frame? It might help us to see it to give you feedback on how that might be repaired. My thought is maybe a metal L bracket might help if it's right on the corner but depends on the type of break it is and where its located.
No longer available
on Dec 03, 2014
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I'd say glue first, then screw in an L bracket as suggested or glue one of those triangular pieces of wood they use on good furniture to support the corners.
Marion Nesbitt
on Dec 04, 2014
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Sometimes the staples miss and come apart. I like to use Gorilla glue for strong repairs, and some method of reattaching the pieces. Without pictures it's hard to know. Gorilla glue is expanding, and should be clamped. It also doesn't come out of fabric, and about need to wear it off of your fingers!
Adrianne C
on Dec 04, 2014
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I use it all the time with furniture repairs, sometimes fill in the gaps with wooden match sticks. I always let it set for 24 hours though. Even used it on marble and it held very well. After it dries, I clean off the excess usually with a razor. Works for me!
Adrianne C
on Dec 04, 2014
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I use Elmer's wood glue for all my gluing. I'd take a piece of wood and cut the outside edge into a roundish corner . Cut it in half and add a small wedge of wood in exact corner for strength. Glue all 3 pieces to loveseat and add long enough wood screws to get a good bite. The 3 pieces wedge together to strengthen.
Myrna Engle
on Dec 04, 2014
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