Help….Fix for a Cigarette burn hole in fabric of seat?..
Question:
Sure — check for a fabric mend kit at QVC.com and if the fabric is patterned, it will be just about invisible. At worst, you can punch two holes, one that ocntains entire burned area and one from matching fabric under the seat. Gluing that perfectly matched fabric on with Tear Mender type glue works fine. New adhesives are space age miracles, really hold up well.
Excellent advise..I’ll mark this down,thanks
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An old trick from the used car lot: cut off some carpet nap from under the front seat. chop it up real fine with a razor blade on a hard surface. put a drop of super glue in the burn hole. drop the chopped carpet threads on and hold down for 10 seconds. You will be surprised how well it looks. Of course, if you have red seats and green Romeo Raabe – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Ben, I had the same thing happen in a pickup bucket seat once – prompted me to quit smoking!! What I did was find some excess of the original cover that was tucked up in the back-underside of the seat and cut off enough to cover the hole PLUS have about an eighth inch all around. Since the foam had suffered too, I first filled that hole with standard foam AFTER putting in a bit of white Elmer’s glue to hold the patch in. Then I used a small, flat screwdriver to position the material under/inside/beneath (get the idea?) the hole and matched the pattern. I squirted a bit of the Elmer’s around the perimeter of the hole on the patch material and pushed all together taking care to glue down any loose threads around the hole and let dry overnight. No one (including my cuter half) ever noticed. It lasted for 10 years and was still good when I traded the truck for a new one. Hope this helped. David This is slightly off topic and for that I apologize but since this happened in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats? No-one I’ve talked to has a solution other then a cover for the seat. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix other then replacing the cab seat or a cover for the seat? Is it expensive to have a cab seat re-covered professionally? This RV only has 2K miles on it and already a burn hole in the seat! OUCH!! I would like to make it as good as new if possible.. I won’t mentioned who burned the hole in the seat <BG. I feel awful about it! TIA, Ben
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Here is what I can suggest you do… Drive to the nearest car dealer and ask them who does it for them when it occurs,,I have been in the car biz for 35 years and I we use to have a upholstery doctor call on us every week with there van and they would fix our holes right on our premises…good luck… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is slightly off topic and for that I apologize but since this happened in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats? No-one I’ve talked to has a solution other then a cover for the seat. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix other then replacing the cab seat or a cover for the seat? Is it expensive to have a cab seat re-covered professionally? This RV only has 2K miles on it and already a burn hole in the seat! OUCH!! I would like to make it as good as new if possible.. I won’t mentioned who burned the hole in the seat <BG. I feel awful about it! TIA, Ben
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Ben, I had the same thing happen in a pickup bucket seat once – prompted me to quit smoking!!
My Dad told a story of when he was a young man he finally got a job that paid enough money so he could finally afford a new suit with 2 pair of pants..he said he burnt a hole in the jacket! He quit smoking! :=)
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This is slightly off topic and for that I apologize but since this happened in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats? No-one I’ve talked to has a solution other then a cover for the seat. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix other then replacing the cab seat or a cover for the seat? Is it expensive to have a cab seat re-covered professionally? This RV only has 2K miles on it and already a burn hole in the seat! OUCH!! I would like to make it as good as new if possible.. I won’t mentioned who burned the hole in the seat <BG. I feel awful about it! TIA, Ben
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in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats?
In the same fix- I did find the name and adress of the origional ulpolstrey shop that made my covers for a 94 Flair. As soon as I get home again I intend to call him and send a picture of the fabric. The only other solution that I see would be checking with RV Salvage yards and getting a new cushion that way. Anne
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Ben, I had the same thing happen in a pickup bucket seat once – prompted me to quit smoking!! What I did was find some excess of the original cover that was tucked up in the back-underside of the seat and cut off enough to cover the hole PLUS have about an eighth inch all around. Since the foam had suffered too, I first filled that hole with standard foam AFTER putting in a bit of white Elmer’s glue to hold the patch in. Then I used a small, flat screwdriver to position the material under/inside/beneath (get the idea?) the hole and matched the pattern. I squirted a bit of the Elmer’s around the perimeter of the hole on the patch material and pushed all together taking care to glue down any loose threads around the hole and let dry overnight. No one (including my cuter half) ever noticed. It lasted for 10 years and was still good when I traded the truck for a new one. Hope this helped. David – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is slightly off topic and for that I apologize but since this happened in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats? No-one I’ve talked to has a solution other then a cover for the seat. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix other then replacing the cab seat or a cover for the seat? Is it expensive to have a cab seat re-covered professionally? This RV only has 2K miles on it and already a burn hole in the seat! OUCH!! I would like to make it as good as new if possible.. I won’t mentioned who burned the hole in the seat <BG. I feel awful about it! TIA, Ben
Response:
Sure — check for a fabric mend kit at QVC.com and if the fabric is patterned, it will be just about invisible. At worst, you can punch two holes, one that ocntains entire burned area and one from matching fabric under the seat. Gluing that perfectly matched fabric on with Tear Mender type glue works fine. New adhesives are space age miracles, really hold up well.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is slightly off topic and for that I apologize but since this happened in my RV then it’s kinda related. Have any of you found a fix for a cigarette burn hole in the cloth fabric cab seats? No-one I’ve talked to has a solution other then a cover for the seat. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix other then replacing the cab seat or a cover for the seat? Is it expensive to have a cab seat re-covered professionally? This RV only has 2K miles on it and already a burn hole in the seat! OUCH!! I would like to make it as good as new if possible.. I won’t mentioned who burned the hole in the seat <BG. I feel awful about it! TIA, Ben
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