How To Repair My Vinyl Straps On Lawn Chairs

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Many types of outdoor furniture use vinyl strapping stretched over a frame to provide comfortable support for the seat and dorsum. These straps get brittle and discolored over time, and may need to be replaced. This is an easy functioning and will make your furniture expect like new.

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Remove the old straps. Using a pair of scissors, cutting off all the sometime straps and fasteners.
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Clean the chair frame at this time.

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Measure the frame. With a textile measuring tape, take the hole-to-hole measurement. Wrap the measuring tape around the frame every bit if it were a strap.
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Summate the strap length. Take the hole-to-hole measurement and multiply it past .85 (85%). Then add one inch. This number will exist your cutting length.
- For example: Hole to hole measurement = 22" Pigsty-to-pigsty measurement x .8" = 17.half-dozen" Add one inch. Cut length: eighteen.6".
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Cut the vinyl straps. Using scissors and a measuring tape, cutting the desired number of straps at the cut length.
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Drill or dial holes for rivets. Using a leather punch or and electric drill with a 3/16" fleck, carefully drill a hole in the heart of the strap, 1/two" from the finish of the strap. Make sure to drill a hole on both ends.
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Trim the corners. Once all straps are cut and drilled, trim off the corners of both sides of every strap.

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Heat the vinyl strap. This is done to soften it. There are at least ii possible ways to achieve this satisfactorily:
- Apply boiling water to heat information technology. Using a hot plate or other heat source, boil a large pot of water. In one case the water has come to a boil, insert several straps. Reduce the rut so the water remains hot but not boiling. Allow the straps to stay in the water at least two minutes, although leaving them in longer will non hurt them.
- Use a rut gun. Motion the rut gun around frequently; do not allow it to residuum at 1 place. Thirty seconds of moving it around the strap and it should be heated enough to use.
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Insert the fastener. From here on, gloves are recommended to be worn as the straps can exist very hot coming out of the water or after heating under the heat gun. Remove one strap with a pair of tongs and dry out it with a towel, or simply lift up the hot heated strap with the tongs. Insert rivets into both ends of the strap.

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Attach the fastener to the frame. While the strap is withal hot, arroyo the frame from underneath. Button the rivet into the pigsty in the frame and bring the strap around the exterior of the frame.
- If the rivet is difficult to insert, use a rubber mallet or hammer to tap it in.
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Pull the strap. Using one hand to detain the chair, catch the end of the strap with the other. Stretch the strap evenly and steadily over top the reverse side of the chair.
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Wrap the strap. Using heavy pollex pressure, agree the vinyl in identify and attach the rivet to the frame with the other hand. Release thumb pressure and the strap volition contract every bit information technology cools.^[1]
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Echo for each strap requiring fixing. When it's all done, the chair is ready to sit on once more.

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How practice I replace the plastic webbing that is woven on outdoor furniture?

You can buy replacement rolls of webbing to re-weave.
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Where do I notice the straps?

You lot can find them in some hardware stores, or bank check on online shopping sites such every bit Amazon.com.
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Where can I purchase rolls of vinyl straps?

Search the Internet for "replacement vinyl webbing". There are sources which are less expensive than Amazon if yous demand more than, say 20 feet.
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Where can I find rivets?

When you gild the strapping curl online, information technology comes with rivets. If you lot scroll downwards a footling, you volition likewise come across a section of, 'What people who ordered this, also bought this' blazon of deal.

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Leaving vinyl straps in boiling water volition non hurt them.
Reheating vinyl straps in boiling water volition not injure them.
When pulling vinyl in identify, stretch it well across the runway to requite plenty slack to attach the rivet. It volition tighten as it cools.
Use baby powder on straps if y'all take a trouble with straps sticking.

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Practice not cut all of your straps at once, you may want to adjust your strap length after you see how the first few straps fit around the frame.
If using a heat gun, do not let information technology sit too long in any one part of the strap or the heat will start to melt the vinyl.

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Chair which has vinyl straps in demand of replacing
Scissors
3/16" drill and drill motor, or a leather punch
Rubberized gloves
Baby powder
Hammer or rubber mallet
Pot of boiling water, towel; or a heat gun
Tongs

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If the vinyl straps on your outdoor furniture accept go worn, yous can supercede them with a few elementary tools. Y'all'll demand new vinyl straps and rivets to attach them to the frame. To remove the quondam straps, simply cut them with pair of scissors or a sharp bract. To summate the length of your new straps, measure the length between each side of the frame, multiply it by 0.85 and add 1 inch. In one case you've bought your new straps, y'all'll need to cut them to length, punch a pigsty half an inch from each stop with a drill or leather punch, and trim the corners from each side of the straps. Then, heat your straps in a large pot of boiling water for 2 minutes to soften them. After that, wrap each strap effectually the frame and hammer the rivets into the holes. For more tips, including how to soften your vinyl straps with a heat gun, read on!

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