WEBBING FOR ALUMINUM LAWN CHAIR PATCH

Polypro webbing will help reinforce these areas so they won't quickly become damaged again.

Remember, measure twice and cut once! Then replace the frayed or stretched pieces. At this point, you should not be able to see a difference between the broken strips and the strips that are in great shape.īe sure that you have measured your polypro webbing strips correctly one more time. Stretch out the old material and place it back on the chair the way it looked when it was new. Measure how long the new material needs to be. With a tool, remove the frayed or stretched pieces. Once the dust cover is removed, you can evaluate what pieces of the chair need to be replaced. A screwdriver or the back of the hammer will make quick work of prying this away. This can be easily done by simply turning the chair over and removing the cover.

To repair pieces of the chair, you may have to remove the dust cover on the back. Coordinate or contrast to match existing cushions or even showcase the colors of your favorite sports team! Polypro as a replacement choice gives you a lot more color options than traditional strapping replacements. Most chairs of this style are already made partially with this material. Polyprolene or 'polypro' webbing is a great material to use to repair your lawn chair. To keep your chairs looking new and in tip-top shape, why not repair broken or damaged pieces with stretch-resistant and waterproof polypropylene webbing? Over time, the material may begin to fray and break away. Most lawn chairs are created to hold a significant amount of weight. But, they can become worn rather quickly if they are exposed to summer rainstorms and hot summer sun. They are the best chairs for sitting outside on a summer evening and sipping on an icy lemonade as you watch the sunset. Here’s to lawn chair weather and fixing things.Lawn chairs are a great summer item. That’s it! The twill tape is thin enough that I didn’t need to use an awl to get through the webbing, and so far anyway, it’s holding up beautifully. I used 3-inch cotton twill from the Ribbon Factory and stretched it as taut as I could to make it comfy. (Up in Maine, Julie O’Rourke recently re-webbed her little guy’s chair this way.) If your chair uses screws and washers, the technique is very similar and the above video shows both methods. My chair was made with clips that had gone rusty, so I recycled them and bought a shiny new set from Lawn Chair USA. + Lawnchair Clips (or screws and washers!) Just keep in mind that if you plan to re-web as I have here, you’ll need a chair that has a bar across the front and top of the seat. Ideally, buy used! You can scout for one at thrift stores or tag sales or online at places like eBay or Etsy. Whatever you do, if you have an aluminum chair, hang on to it! Even if you don’t opt for a cotton monochrome look like I did, opportunities for repair (and lounging) are virtually endless. Here are the basic details in case you decide to go in for a lawn chair rescue as the weather warms up. A few months later, it’s still holding up. I followed the basic instructions from Lawnchair USA, pushing the metal clips through the cotton tape just like I would have the nylon. After weaving one seat and not loving it, I tucked the chair into the closet for a few months and busied myself with other projects, but in February I pulled it out and tried again, this time using cotton twill tape and a new set of lawn chair clips. My original plan was to recreate a basketweave seat out of cotton clothesline, but I found the weave to be too bulky to feel comfortable. I scoured sidewalks for a cast-off folding chair to spruce up all summer, and put out a call on our local Buy Nothing Group, but it wasn’t until we moved in September that I found what I’d been searching for: a lightweight aluminum folding chair with nylon webbing that had started to fray. We’d bring colored chalk and balls and send up small blessings for a nearby spot to get out late-day wiggles.

WEBBING FOR ALUMINUM LAWN CHAIR PATCH

We still lived in our old apartment, four flights up without a patch of outdoor space to call our own and so in the afternoons we’d walk the kids around the block to a stretch of wide sidewalk in front a shuttered school building. Last spring, when the weather warmed but the virus still raged out of control and playgrounds and parks were closed, I dreamed of a folding lawn chair.

Webbing for aluminum lawn chair