How to Repair a Broken Couch

When you receive a couch for free but it's broken, this is how you can still use it!

When the last kiddo moved out, we decided to make that room into a mancave/media room.  Anyway, its currently under construction. I'm talking bare walls because we ripped off the ugly 1980s paneling that was in there on the walls.  We're still trying to figure out what to do in there.

This room actually used to be a garage, we think, not confidently sure though.  Regardless, its a work in progress and its not pretty right now, but it will be!

We moved our old couch and recliner in here so we'd have a spot to sit down and watch movies or play games.  The couch was huge and took up so much space, plus the cats had used it for a scratching post so it was UGLY.

Our neighbor had a free couch, yes FREE!  We like free, so my honey called the boys over to help and they took out the giant old couch and brought in the "new" couch!  It needed a little TLC, but no big deal to a couple of experienced DIYers!

By the time I got in there, they already had the cushions off for me to wash and my honey had discovered that it had a broken board on one end.  Looks like they may have had an incident with the spilling of Koolaid on that cushion right there!  Oooopsie!

My honey looks to be over dressed for repairing a couch, but yall it was 32 degrees outside that morning and since he was running back and forth from the house to the shop, he bundled up.  Here he's already removing the black dust cover from the bottom of the couch to see what the exact problem was.

There's the problem!  That board was broken in two places.

First he tried pulling it back together, but with the springs attached to it, he knew he needed more tools.  Back to the shop he went to get them.  Before he went back out he measured the distance between one side and the other so he knew what size board he needed.

The first 2 x 4 board he tried was one he had just lying around, it didn't quite fit but it was worth the shot that it would!

He went back out and cut one piece of a 2 x 4 board to fit perfectly.  Now to fix the damage.

He used a metal C clamp and a piece of angle iron (metal bar) to pry the board back up into place.

After he got the C clamp positioned on there, he used the metal bar to push the broken board back up where it need to be.  While holding this position, he used a 1-1/2" wood screw with his drill and screwed the new board to the old board to hold it in place.

Next he added several more screws until he felt like it was sturdy.

After he was certain that the broken board was where he wanted it he used his staple gun to replace the black dust cover back to the bottom of the couch.

Lastly, he added the feet back on that he had to removed to take off the dust cover.  The feet were held on by long screws, so very easy to take off and put back on.

See that wall back there?  It goes from rough cedar to bricks to sheetrock.  That's going to be a mess to make all blend seamlessly, but I know my honey can do it, so I'm not worried!

I'm excited to get this room looking nice again!

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It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

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