How To Repair Leather Sofa: Methods To Repair Tear In Leather Sofa

Methods To Repair Tear In Leather Sofa

The Methods to repair the tear in leather sofa are mentioned below:

Clean: Begin with cleaning the area with the rubbing alcohol and a soft rag.
Glue: Then apply the glue to the innerside of the nick or flap.
Reattach: Reattach the flap carefully while glue is wet, press the flap, align the flap in a way that none of the beneath material is visible to naked eye.
Sand: Once it is dried than sand the affected area slightly.
Dye The Leather: Once the sanding is completed, than apply a leather with a damp sponge, and allow to dry, at last apply the leather finish at the top.

Sub Patch: For the deep scrathces cut the piece of subpatch, that should be strong. The Subpatch can be cut from the flexible mending fabric or another piece of leather or vinyl, but cut the patch larger than the area to be repaired.
Insert: After that insert the patch beneath the hole with the help of tweezers, then flatten any wrinkle of the patch.
Glue: Now glue the sub-patch to the leather with the help of large needle or toothpick. Wipe away any excess glue with a paper towel.
Weigh Down: Weigh down the tear while it dries simply place a heavy book or block of wood to the entire affected area and apply the firm pressure and wait for the glue to dry.
Clean: Before going to next step it is important to clean the area, lightly damp a clean rag with leather cleaner, then gently clean the affected area.
Trim: After that trim away any loosen fiber around the spot.
Leather Filler: Now apply the leather filler, the area on which the leather is to be used should be flat and level with the rest of the surface. Then use a palette knife to spread the leather filler into the gap. For the excess filler use a paper towel to wipe, wait for the filler to dry, apply the second coat if the surface still feels
uneven.
Dye: Then Dye the repaired area, with the same color, simply dab a small amount of dye over the spot with a damp sponge.
Leather Finish: Apply the leather finish at the top and wait until it dries.