Oh dear, me again with another question.
I'm trying to recover a 'tub' chair - now I've no true upholstery skills, but did do a loose cover on my soft furnishings course, and i'm using the skills I learnt there and trying to adapt them to a fixed cover.
Now, I've got so far (inside back and side, curving round) and I now want to permanently attach this to the chair. I've not taken the existing top cover off, as I don't know what I'm going to find underneath, and as I say, I've no true upholstery skills.
My problem is this (and I hope I can describe it accurately). I need to either staple or tack the bottom edges to the 'firm' seat (the bit under the loose box cushion), but tacks won't go into it, and i'm finding, even with an electric staple gun, the staples are not holding (i can pull them out by hand). now tapping the 'seat' sounds like it's hardboard, so I've no idea why staples aren't holding in it. Any ideas? Also, my staple gun won't let me get right into the 'crease' - where the back vertical meets the vertical seat - know where I mean? Again, is there another way perhaps I could deal with this?
I've put so much into this already, I really don't want to give up but at the moment, I can't think of a solution.
Any help available out there?? pretty please??
I'm trying to recover a 'tub' chair - now I've no true upholstery skills, but did do a loose cover on my soft furnishings course, and i'm using the skills I learnt there and trying to adapt them to a fixed cover.
Now, I've got so far (inside back and side, curving round) and I now want to permanently attach this to the chair. I've not taken the existing top cover off, as I don't know what I'm going to find underneath, and as I say, I've no true upholstery skills.
My problem is this (and I hope I can describe it accurately). I need to either staple or tack the bottom edges to the 'firm' seat (the bit under the loose box cushion), but tacks won't go into it, and i'm finding, even with an electric staple gun, the staples are not holding (i can pull them out by hand). now tapping the 'seat' sounds like it's hardboard, so I've no idea why staples aren't holding in it. Any ideas? Also, my staple gun won't let me get right into the 'crease' - where the back vertical meets the vertical seat - know where I mean? Again, is there another way perhaps I could deal with this?
I've put so much into this already, I really don't want to give up but at the moment, I can't think of a solution.
Any help available out there?? pretty please??
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