any one know of the cheapest way to repair a cut in a leather sofa ? the cut is about 1cm long in the arm i was thinking of super glue but not sure if this would melt the filling ?
any help would be great...
thanks in advance ady
Super glue sticks leather very effectively, but you get a hard, shiney patch which you can't do anything about.
a use rather evostik (or punture repair solution) on a bit of scrap leather inserted behind the cut.
Press it all down and clean off the residue with finger rubbing and/or a decent aggressive solvent. Beware though.If te surface is polished it may remove all the wax..
Copydex with a patch of material under it?
Does it go right through?
Did it suddenly appear without anyone doing it? If so, it may be covered under warranty. We got the man from the factory to try to fix ours, in the end we got a whole new suite!
Even if not in warranty, how about insurance?
How about if he puts something (another strip of leather perhaps) inside the cut, and glues the faces to the patch, rather than trying to glue edges.
I have found super glue to be crap at gluing anything but skin. Luckily leather is made from skin. It also does good work in hospitals.
Bob
You must glue patch from the back.
However with the minute cut you have, superglue,as mentioned may work fine but it will need very careful application with a small brush and could fail badly and look bad.
According to a recent R1 broadcast, this was what the US designed it for.
Regularly used in casualty, as Helen (HDV) will probably vouch.
Superglue needs certain thigs to set. - moisture and a slightly alkaline or salty enviromnet IIRC.
Its very good on balsa wood, and crap on ply withiut accelerator. Its a demon on carbon fibre, for some reason.
A bit of spit on one surface sends it off very fast.
That's probably the best way, but it's best to put some wax on the surface to stop evo-stik sticking. Coat the patch with evo-stik, push it through with a pencil, push a little more evo-stik in all around, and make sure the patch is flat, and hold the slit closed for 24 hours. Any (small - you should have applied it carefully!) residue will rub off.
If anyone around really is a medic, they ought to know that medical superglue is different stuff to DIY superglue. DIY superglue is toxic - not so that there's much real hazard to it, but enough that it's worth acquiring the right stuff if you're in the habit of using it to fix holes in fingers.
As to the sofa, then have it commercially repaired by a visiting leather repairer. It's possible to DIY it, but it's a fiddly process and you shouldn't practice your first repair on the best sofa! It's also _much_ easier to do it to a piece of leather on the workbench than it is to the middle of a squab with no rear access.
The trick to getting a good supple repair is to use an appropriate backer patch to match the grade of leather in the sofa, and to skive the rear edges of the torn area to avoid having a ridge around the tear. Evo-stik 528 is the adhesive of choice. If access is tricky you need to use this as a true contact adhesive, left to dry tacky and then lightly hammered to set the joint instantly.
If it's a major load bearing component with a transverse tear, then you might need to take the cover off and sew a jute (not hessian) tension web across the back of it all, possibly gluing that in place on the back.
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