One of the legs of my sofa broke. Thinking about repairing but not sure the best way to do that. I have a very limited amount of tools
I’m thinking of unscrewing the other legs, then resting the frame on something. What should I rest it on? I’m thinking of just getting some wood form Lowes or something like that. Is that totally stupid?
Is there a way to check the strength of the frame? Am I just delaying the inevitable?
Appreciate any advice you can offer!
What do you already have on hand? What tools and materials?
If you had a cinderblock, log, car-jack, or other heavy / sturdy item, you could use that to rest the sofa on temporarily while you work on it. Since it’s a sofa, you could even just tip the sofa on one of its sides (if there is room). Even a stack of books could work, assuming nobody sits on the sofa or uses it (which is a good idea while it’s being repaired). Either way, you probably don’t need to buy something to rest the sofa on.
In terms of re-attaching the leg to the sofa, it depends on what you are working with, whether there is a way to screw something into the leg. Imagining a wooden leg, I could imagine drilling a hole into the leg and into the sofa, then driving a wooden dowel into the leg and putting wood glue into the hole and around the dowel and then softly tapping the leg into the hole you made into the sofa - the dowel going in the hole, I mean. Sometimes screws can be driven in at angles, or you can make or use brackets that screw into both.