Six Tips About Recovering Elm Furniture

Because of the hard feature, elm is always used at the material for furniture and in daily life elm furniture are also so popular. However, one important problem is that after a long time using, there would be damaged parts on elm furniture surface, which is not only ugly, but also effect furnitures working life. At this time, I am sure you should know some tips about how to recover damaged elm furniture.

Firstly, cleaning.
After a long time using, there would be lots of dust and dirty mark on furniture, whats more, sometimes there is cement paste, pitch or chemical painting on furniture. Therefore you should at first use water to clean and if such dirty marks are easy to be cleaned, you can use brush to get rid of it, along with water containing soda to clean. After cleaning, such old furniture should be drying, otherwise it will be expanded when being affected with damp, whats worse, it is not easy to recover again.

Secondly, removing the old painting
As usual, you can use thin sand paper to rub slightly for several times, however, if the old painting is too hard, youd better use knife to scrape the hard part. When taking such work, you should be more careful but with enough courage, otherwise the exquisite parts on furniture would be damaged.

Thirdly, recover the wooden parts
If there is defective parts such as large scale gap, you have to find the same material to recover it perfectly. As usual, it is easy to repair one whole furniture leg, and the most complex parts need to repair is the relief. Every parts of relief would made with different workmanship and you have to always make some changes.

Fourthly, match the copper accessories
If the copper accessories on some furniture are damaged, you should find the same one as original copper parts. In traditional Chinese furniture culture, these accessories such as loose-leaf and so on are the indispensable parts.

Fifthly, polish it with wax carefully
A usual, you can polish furniture with wax or painting. According to the main principle in furniture collection field, good furniture should be recovered to its original shape.

Finally, make the paintwork
If you think it just paints furniture with painting, you would be wrong, you should keep its original paintwork as much as possible, and in most cases, you just have to paint some limited parts on furniture.