Most owners do not arrive at this job by choice. They arrive because the driver’s seat has gone soft at the front, the foam feels like it is sitting on nothing, and an hour on a long drive leaves them adjusting the wheel back up. Then they lift the seat base and find a rubber … Read more
Yes, you can add lumbar support to an old car seat, and most worn seats need it badly. The five routes are a strap-on cushion or pillow, an integrated one-piece seat cushion with a built-in lumbar pad, a headrest-strap backrest, an internal foam or bladder insert fitted under the cover, and a full professional rebuild. … Read more
Finding out that a cushion set is slightly too big for the frame is one of the most common problems in a motorhome interior, and most owners assume the only fix is to order a whole new set. It is not. Learning how to trim a motorhome cushion set takes an afternoon, costs only the … Read more
Learning how to reupholster a bench seat is mostly a matter of stripping the old cover, deciding what to do with the foam underneath, and stretching new fabric over the cushion in a steady center-outward sequence. If you can pull a staple with a remover and fire one with a stapler, you have every skill … Read more
Trimming a bucket seat for a kit car is an upholstery job, not a chrome or body-trim job. You strip the seat back to its frame, reshape or rebuild the foam, make a paper pattern from the old cover, cut and sew a new one, then staple and hog-ring it back on under tension. The … Read more
Seat covers wrinkle for four reasons and only four: tension, foam, material memory, and mis-centring. Once you know which one you are fighting, the fix takes minutes instead of a whole weekend. This guide is what auto upholstery forums have been telling each other for twenty years, written down in order. I have pulled apart … Read more
Caravan seat cushions take a beating that furniture at home never sees. They sit in a metal box absorbing summer sun through the roof window, winter condensation, spilled coffee, sand off a beach towel and a decade of British drizzle. After a few seasons the fabric fades, the piping splits and the foam underneath turns … Read more
Learning how to reupholster boat seats step by step is one of those jobs that looks far harder than it is once you know the order of operations. A tired cushion with cracked, faded vinyl is not a structural problem. In most cases it is a two-day project with a staple lifter, a fresh piece … Read more
If you have ever had two shops quote wildly different prices to re-cover the same seat, the difference was almost never the labour. It was the vinyl. One quote is normally built around a marine grade upholstery fabric and the other around an automotive vinyl, and the two materials are engineered for completely different jobs. … Read more
A cockpit cushion is a marine-grade foam core wrapped in an UV- and salt-resistant fabric cover, finished with welt piping and a zipper, then fastened to the bench or helm seat so it does not slide when the boat heels. Building your own takes four things: a template, reticulated or closed-cell foam, a solution-dyed cover, … Read more