Dresser Repair - Replacement Guides

Over time, any furniture becomes unusable, but if you have an old chest of drawers, you are unlikely to want to part with it. And do not rush to throw away this old furniture, because you can give a second life to any piece of furniture. Modern tools provide an opportunity to repair the chest of drawers - replacing the rails with the right approach will not take you much time. If you have the necessary skills, you can well do it yourself.

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Types of repairs and tools

Furniture repair can be done in a variety of ways. Everything will depend on her damage. The main methods are a full and partial repair:

• During a partial repair, only the surface of the chest of drawers is repaired with paint, varnish and the like.

Important! This is the most common type of furniture repair, although not every good owner knows how to do it right. Briefly about the most important stages and common mistakes read in our articles:

• Restoration of a chest of drawers.
• Removing scratches on furniture.

• With a complete repair, a complete restoration is made of all the elements that connect the chest of drawers, as well as all the side walls and drawers with guides.

Before you start repairing the chest of drawers, inspect the chest of drawers. And more specifically - examine it completely to determine which elements have suffered the most during operation. This will help in choosing the tool that you need in order to assemble the chest of drawers with your own hands.

Typically, the assembly of the dresser is done using the following tools:

• Screwdriver with drills and bits. It helps quick parsing of the chest of drawers.
• Slotted and Phillips screwdrivers. It will be needed when the screwdriver is unrealistic to use.
• Hammer and rubber mallet. Allow to pound and pound a variety of furniture details.
• Roulette or joiner's ruler with a pencil. You will need them in order to apply the markup.
• A set of furniture nails and screws - will be needed during the replacement of old ones.
• PVA glue in order to glue wooden dowels.
• Emery paper to remove the old chest of drawers.
• Furniture varnish for application to previously damaged varnish surface.

Important! And you should also arm yourself with fantasy, because if the chest of drawers has a lot of external damage, then you should not easily tint, but generally change its appearance. It is not so difficult to do this after reading our materials.

• Paint for furniture, odorless wood.
• How to make a craquelure on furniture.

• Metal spatula or knife to remove old coating.
• Hexagon in order to tighten furniture structures.

If you use this tool, then difficulties in order to assemble a chest of drawers will not arise.

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Hand-made dresser repair process

After the inspection, you can proceed directly to the repair of the chest of drawers.

Rail replacement

In order to completely repair the chest of drawers, first decide on the details that require repairs or a complete replacement. Quite often, the rails on which the boxes themselves move need to be replaced directly. Often break off due to excessive load, from a huge number of things that are inside the boxes.

To repair the chest of drawers with a replacement guide, pull out all the inner drawers. After that, disconnect the guide rails and change them.With internal replacement, you have to tinker a bit:

• On the inside, you must first mark with a pencil the places where the guides must be fixed.

Important! Twisting the screws is not recommended in the same place where they were, because this will weaken the entire structure. For a strong connection, they must be installed in new places.

• Next, you need to check the fastening of the facades directly on the drawers. In the event that they are held insecurely, you can pull them off with the corners inside. This will add strength to your drawers.
• With the help of nails and a hammer, it is necessary to hammer a fiberboard sheet on the bottom.
• At the end, check the mounting of the handles. In the event that they swing, be sure to tighten them.

Repair of the frame itself

The most important part of the dresser is the frame itself, which is the supporting structure. All the main load falls on him. Therefore, it should be strengthened as much as possible after replacing the guides and improve the appearance:

1. It is best to completely disassemble it and glue all the joints of wooden dowels. This can be done using PVA glue.
2. Next, make a screed with furniture bolts. After that, wait for the glue to dry.
3. After the glue has dried, you can proceed with further repairs.
4. You can completely replace the furniture cover. To completely remove it from the surface, you will need any product that contains methylene chloride. With it, the old coating will dissolve within 15-30 minutes.
5. Using a metal spatula or a knife, you must remove the old varnish.
6. After that, wipe the surface of the frame with water to eliminate the chemical composition.
7. After this, the frame must be degreased. Kerosene or gasoline is perfect for this.
8. This process must be completed by applying a new layer of varnish on the surface of the chest of drawers.
9. After drying, you can insert drawers and collect a chest of drawers.

Important! You can also greatly simplify the process of restoration of the surface. Using sandpaper, remove the top layers of varnish. This is done until the entire surface is smooth. Then remove the dust and paste over the chest of drawers with a self-adhesive decorative film. The colors of the film at a given time are quite large. There are simply multi-colored, and there are also those that repeat the structure of the tree. And after this stage, the time will come to think about that put on the restored chest of drawers?

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In this article, we have offered you the easiest, fastest, but effective way to repair a chest of drawers - with replacing the rails and restoring the surface of the cabinet. Now you can continue to use familiar furniture, saving an additional family budget.