FURNITURE REPAIR

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If it’s made of wood, there’s a good chance Wood As New can fix it for you. Broken pieces, scratches, dents, heavy wear, peeling veneer, warped, loose or rotten—no furniture repair is too small or too difficult. Call, text or email pictures or a descriptions for a free quote.

What furniture can I repair?

Broken legs or spindles on chairs, tables or other furniture
Loose joints on chairs, tables, bed frames and cabinets
Broken or splintered pieces, axe handles, hand tools and wheelbarrow staves
Damage from moving
Peeling or bubbled veneer, particularly on tops and pieces that contact the floor
Damage or poor adjustment to wood instruments like guitars
Missing components like cabinet kick plates, valances and trim
Malfunctioning cabinet hardware like drawer slides and hinges
Much more! Not sure? Call, text or email today!

Why should I repair?

Usually saves money
Keeps garbage out of landfill
Restores a cherished memento to usable condition
New pieces are often shipped from around the world
Many older pieces are higher quality and will last longer and work better
Retain a piece that matches decor or taste
New-to-you items can be given a second life
Maintain the heritage of beautiful handcrafted pieces
Good for the environment and ecosystem health

RECENT REPAIRS

Sewing Machine Table Repair

The hinge section of this built-in sewing machine table tore apart the wood, leaving the heirloom table non-functional. I routed a section out, replaced the wood, patched the veneer on top and stain-matched the repairs. The table is functional again, and looks almost as good as new!

Routed section with custom milled replacement

Broken Gunstock

This gunstock had a huge crack running down the length and a section missing where the butt connected to the rifle. I carefully prepared the surfaces, made a custom walnut insert and glued it in after getting lots of glue in the split as well. When the customer came to pick it up, I fine-tuned my addition to mate perfectly.

Wobbly, Broken Dining Chair Repair

This chair came into my care practically dissassembled. I finished taking it apart, carefully cleaned the joints and glued it back together, better than ever.

Oak Windsor Chair Spindle Repair

A well placed dowel and some clever spindle insertion, and this oak windsor chair looks good as new!

Drawerfront Repair

The handles on these drawers were stepped on by a hungry dog on it’s way to a forbidden dinner on the counter. When they were torn out, the thin plywood centres became splintered and puckered. I had to glue together what was left, patch the veneer, strip the face and restain/finish the fronts to what they formerly looked like. I also added extra support pieces behind the handle screws to prevent the same thing from happening again.

Piano Bench Repair

This piano bench came to me with two legs completely broken off. I reglued the front apron and cleaned up/glued a new section onto a broken side apron. Filled loose screw holes and reassembled everything. Touched up the finish and it was ready to go back to the customer same day! Only $84 for this repair.

Oak dining table

In this refinish job the goal was to match the table to the chair provided. Found a colour-matching stain and did some tests and then stripped the old finish off (mostly with scrapers, but also with some eco stripping gel). Stained with Sansin Special Walnut waterborne stain and then finished with Osmo Smart Oil LED UV curing hardwax oil. I was very pleased with the results, and it matches as well as one could hope considering the chair is a different species (2 actually) of wood. $760.00 for refinish + pickup and delivery.

Painted oak dining chair

This piece was rattled in shipping and the decorated semi-circle top broke off. I drilled and cut dowels after preparing glue surfaces, and then made a cedar clamping caul to apply pressure at the correct angle. Glue, clamps, joint colour touch-up, stress test and it was back out the door the next day. Repair cost $30.

The back of the chair is broken, this is the condition it came into my shop in

Small oval mahogany coffee table

This piece with pedestal base had a broken leg. One of the dowels had snapped and someone else attempted a repair that had failed. I removed all legs, repaired wood, created custom dowel and reglued legs. Touched up finish in a few bare spots, and stress tested the base before returning to customer. Repair cost $50.