here we are back at upholstery on Broadway today I'm going to be showing you how to repair or restyle dining-room chairs comes to me from a designer and what she's requesting that I do these are braids your dining room chairs and they're beautifully done what she's requesting is that we change the outside back which is little trickier than that it sounds so we're going to be removing the inside back to get to the outside back and we're going to going to do this in a different fabric now we're going to not going to be doing that today but we're just going to show demonstrate how to take this apart today which can be tricky because we need to save the fabric on the front so here we are we have to take the double piping off first and it's always a mystery how manufacturers put this on I mean it may be stapled on believe it or not through the through the two welding's or glued I hope because gluing sometimes is the easier way unless it's an industrial glue of some sort and then that can be a problem that we won't know until we start to attempt to do this so here's where it's pieced over here so I'm going to use a chisel just gently to try to bring one of these ends up and so far okay I came up happy about that but huh I feel a staple in there and I also feel a little glue so we have both I believe let's just see no we just have glue and that's good so you ideally would like to pull this off very gently with your fingers and not use any of the harsh tools and again you have to reuse this I have to reglue this on after I pull so this right so here we go let's hope that I can take this whole double piping off without ripping it and like I said if I rip it I'm in trouble because this is a matching set of eight so if one get I have to do all eight if one of these gets ripped is no fabric so I guess we have to be careful so I'm just gently I don't know if you can see this but I have my thumb I'm only I'm preserving me at the inside back fabric also to preserve the double piping and the fabric so I have to be aware of both of these ripping so I'm just gently one index finger could come over here just to hold the inside back fabric down so this is also fraying on me so you have to be careful so far it's okay I have about a half of an inch on my inside back to work with all the way around so I can afford to fret you have this fray a little bit but not extend the fray okay if I'm extended a half of an inch I'm in trouble so you'll find two fabric will tear one way easier than the otherwise you have to be aware of that just take it slow this so now coming up this this length here it's probably going to come off easy I suspect because it's a different cut on the fabric watch this yeah I see that let's just come up which still it to be careful you really need to concentrate on this really focus take your time some pots are hotter than others because there's glue guess slow and steady is the best but not have a real stubborn piece here I probably need my chisel just to try to get underneath that to that village so some people take glue guns and they hate it I hit heat the glue I would recommend against that unless you absolutely have to do that I don't like that because a lot of times you get glue on fabric where you don't want it so well that sometimes the glue gun is dirty at the head and and you in you slip and you get your nice fabric that's also a problem I have a problem area here - I have a lot of resistance here so I'm wondering if it's not stapled so I'm going to take my chisel again and very gently kind of coax that up yeah I'm going to I'm going to do is leave that I'm going to come this way to see hopefully I can take this off all the way to here and then maybe it'll peel better this way so that's also another strategy you don't have to keep on going you can come back okay something I don't like what they did here is that they cut they cut their double piping they didn't fold it so that just makes my job harder so normally on a double piping you want to extend extend the double piping cutter here take the material the innards out and then fold it under to get a cleaner cut than this but they didn't do that so I'm first would be an extra careful on the end here now they they didn't do it on this end either so be careful they're not making it easy the manufacturers not making it easy for me so what I will do I'll take this double piping and I'll stretch it just to I may be able to put that desired you know fold under and glued under if I stretch down the pipe this is really not coming out so to focus be a little careful here and come this way with my chisel we'll see if I can yeah posts that there we go it's should come out as easy as the other side so when I when I could pull it could be another reason why I can pull this is it the fact that the glue gun may not have been hot open this area I could tell that the glue really didn't set it's helping me right now but when you glue that's you know foot tip you need to make sure that your glue gun is hot you have two settings on your glue gun a low and a high on a really good glue gun we'll have two settings that's an industrial glue gun always high setting some of these glue guns that you'll buy out on the market are no good because they don't get the glue hot enough and when a glue isn't hot enough it won't it will not adhere to the back of the fabric so make sure you get an industrial gun on high of course the flip side to having it really glue well on the chair is that if you get to send your finger it's going to burn so always have a piece of muslin cloth ready or you know you wear any work pants make sure that if you do get glue and your fingers take it off don't look at it and scream oh my god I have glue on my finger would you be surprised people do that they panic a little bit just take it right off because it will burn okay now I've come back up to the top here okay good I came right around there now in the king it's coming off on okay so all this to get back to here what was really giving me a hard time and it still doesn't work oh wow so I'll take my chisel and just work a little bit little leverage and there we go just undid that double piping seems like a lot of work with the designer wants a different fabric on the outside back in order to tie the entire house or into it with color I could see why she's doing it because when you have these set around the table and and it really can add some unity to the to the to the floorplan when you can take a color let's say on the self up but we pull this off in a blue velvet let's say and she slaps it on the back of these chairs it ties it could tie in the entire downstairs so now our next stop next step is to take the inside back off so we're not going to get had any breaks on this one this is going to be challenging too because I can see already where you know see how the fabric is fraying and it's really pull tight which is another thing so there's a couple of things I could do I think instead of digging out these staples I think I'm actually going to try to get my all underneath here as careful as I can because it's already fraying look at that I mean I'm not highly any pressure on this at all and it's coming it's good in one way it's coming out but I'm going to be challenged putting it back so it's a staple down there that these staples are in pretty good too so if I can peel it away at a corner so that's my strategy and then get my fingers underneath carefully and whole look at that I mean folks this this is like I said it's easy in one way it's all frayed the staples are let and the fabric is pulling away from the staples that are embedded in the wood my other choice would have been to take every single one of these staples out with the awl which would have taken a long time so I mixed feelings about this though because I know that when I go to put this fabric on I'm going to be challenged so here we go it's see if the whole thing comes off this way yeah that'd be my first choice on the fabric now with the Freys this much you know folks I probably would have a flower upholstering this and not to pick out a manufacturer too much I would have taken and folded this under if I had a fabric afraid like this I would have folded it just to close it up and once you do that you close it up and staple bazan but look at this this is just fraying Challenge over that : I start to come back to that see may have to take this staple out take that first staple on I bet the rest of the traveler comes stand up and get my side kind of taken out that statement the rest of the way what I did was I they all took it up so now that glow that was put on it's coming the whole glue is coming off with the fabric that anything get the top for the cattle position is everything right position it's this way yeah this is tough great easy okay there it is now I would say very few fabrics come off this easy like I said it another thing okay so I just want to make sure that they have their fabric mock before I take up off the chair because I could put this in the upside down and I don't know how they they knew enough to put all the inside backs one way but I don't see this mop so I'm going to take piece of tape before leave the chair I'm going to mark this inside back top see that that way there I know when I go to a pulse of these I know at the top is so there we go is the inside back okay now to grab that foam foam should come out easy but you don't want to rip it because I have to reuse it now this is a surprise they have a piece of wood in here a little surprised to see wood rather than burlap and webbing it's not I haven't decided I may have to use it again because that's what the designer probably wants it does give the outside back a flat look I suppose I don't like it only because of the knee goes into it and breaks it it's broken but if a knee goes into webbing and burlap it just bounces back that's the big difference so we're learning a lot with this so the outside deck we don't have to save the fabric I mean so I can be a little rougher with this as long as I'm not in the wood so I'm going to do is try to get this up in one piece it's like I said I'm a reluctant you have to use this piece this this is tough maybe I won't use it because I can't get it off without ripping it but that's okay I'll just upgrade its it would be something I'm making a decision right now to tear this off instead of trying to save it because it will take too much time to get all these staples out that's one reason the other reason is this this deserves an upgrade I suppose with the with the webbing and the burlap okay so here I go careful it's tough to shop oh there we was put it over there for now so here's here's what we're getting into we're going to take this off now and this is what's going to be replaced so I don't care about this but she does want me to save this fabric the designer has planned on using this for something so I'm going to save this but I'm going to write on it outside back outside back okay I'll put that over there so all our components over there and the only thing left now is to clean up my staples so I'll stop this and then we'll talk a little bit more about two on this video so my side cut is a fantastic take out staples at a halfway halfway coming out anyhow that is not nice good pair of side cutters that fit your hand is really advisable and the ones that don't come out that grade you can take you all if you're careful and just lift and then use your side cutters so cleaning up this hole with that too unhappy about the way these staples are coming out of it sometimes you left here for always trying to dig these out these are coming right out for us it's the way we took our pots just want to show you focus in on this edge right here so we I won't bore you with the whole taking on all this up I will show you what I just did then I run my finger along to make sure that there are no staple stubs in there and then I'm going to clean the rest of this up but let's bring this up so it makes these chairs special is that this outside back is put on first and then the inside back and the double piping in the front and the webbing in the burlap of course in between but what this recessed look is is desirable it's more desirable than having the fabric just come here for instance well there we have it we took the entire inside back the fall the piece of wood that was in there more foam and the outside back double piping took it all off and we're down to the frame and when awaiting the fabric from the designer and when that comes in close to this and then put all the other pieces back on the front thanks again looking forward to pop too you