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cimoreneWax and I started trying to take apart this 30-year-old sofa that we need to get rid of, yesterday, because at its full size, it's too big for the two of us to carry, well, anywhere. But that turned out to be even more of a bitch than we realised because this grody old sofa was BUILT TO LAST.
Even the board that supports the seat cushions is framed in solid wood 1x4s with carpenter's joints and bracing pieces and an entire framework of metal with springs woven between it, and the metal actually threaded into the wood. The only way to take it apart would have involved an axe or a saw!
The whole frame is the kind of solid stuff that would last another couple of hundred years provided the upholstery was replaced... but that's not possible! The arm you're looking at in this picture has the disgusting ratty old foam glued over its entire surface to the wood of the frame, and the even-digustinger nubbly polyester fabric is wrapped around in between the arm and back pieces of the frame and glued in. To reupholster this bitch would have required cutting the fabric off, then scraping the foam off and shaving the raw ends of the fabric down to the frame.
The joint in question
Once Wax unscrewed the fiberboard square that served as the couch's feet (there was no way to vacuum under this baby!), the basic arms/back/front frame of the couch was destabilised. It still had corner braces in all four corners which were attached with wood pins, though.
About five minutes of squishing it back and forth, ramming it into the cement wall and jumping on it broke the fiberboard long sides off of the arms, though, and enabled us to rip them off once we sawed through the upholstery.
We even managed to break the long fiberboard pieces that made up the front and back face of the frame by propping one end up and jumping on them.
The sofa in its constituent pieces
But now the hall is full of this shit until we find the time to drag it all down to the dumpsters.
Even the board that supports the seat cushions is framed in solid wood 1x4s with carpenter's joints and bracing pieces and an entire framework of metal with springs woven between it, and the metal actually threaded into the wood. The only way to take it apart would have involved an axe or a saw!
The whole frame is the kind of solid stuff that would last another couple of hundred years provided the upholstery was replaced... but that's not possible! The arm you're looking at in this picture has the disgusting ratty old foam glued over its entire surface to the wood of the frame, and the even-digustinger nubbly polyester fabric is wrapped around in between the arm and back pieces of the frame and glued in. To reupholster this bitch would have required cutting the fabric off, then scraping the foam off and shaving the raw ends of the fabric down to the frame.
The joint in question
Once Wax unscrewed the fiberboard square that served as the couch's feet (there was no way to vacuum under this baby!), the basic arms/back/front frame of the couch was destabilised. It still had corner braces in all four corners which were attached with wood pins, though.
About five minutes of squishing it back and forth, ramming it into the cement wall and jumping on it broke the fiberboard long sides off of the arms, though, and enabled us to rip them off once we sawed through the upholstery.
We even managed to break the long fiberboard pieces that made up the front and back face of the frame by propping one end up and jumping on them.
The sofa in its constituent pieces
But now the hall is full of this shit until we find the time to drag it all down to the dumpsters.
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Date: 25 Jun 2008 04:48 pm (UTC)Just kidding. It came from a secondhand furniture shop. Those places are notoriously filled with old furniture. It's horrifying to think that most of it might be constructed like THIS.
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