Broken internal component meant the sofa needed repair yesterday. Previously we'd just cut a flap and stuck the weird plastic cloth back with sellotape. After getting the eldest to move and tip the sofa, I decided I'd just cut that whole thing off. Out came the knife.
Half way through and eldest goes "this feels really destructive"
Yes it does, kid, yes it does 😈
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Yeah, the arms would have been made separately to the seat and back, and then assembled later with a nail gun.
A properly jointed hardwood frame would make it many times more expensive to manufacture.
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Reminds me of the time a friend asked me to collect a sofa for them. They had bought it on Ebay really cheaply, new from a sofa manufacturer.
When I arrived to collect, the chaps said "You do know what it is, don't cha?"
"Ummm... A sofa, I'm just the delivery driver."
They told me the sofa was just a mock up for a new production run, and couldn't be sat on.
It turned out to have a lightweight stick frame, and only cosmetic upholstery.
The friend wanted me to 'reinforce it' enough to use.
I wedged a load of fire wood under the seating area and pushed it back against a wall. There was nothing else I could do.
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Ahhh, frustrating when you only had two adults when you bought it! 😄
The steel angle should add strength, additional timber, glued and screwed on edge, would too.
Sometimes you just have to add what you can.
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