Welded New Legs onto a Set of Family Heirloom Chairs

These chairs had been passed down through the family - good bones, solid upholstery, but the legs had given out at the joints. Instead of letting them collect dust in a corner or hauling them to the curb, the owner brought them to us for a proper fix.

Here's what we were working with: a set of upholstered chairs with failed leg connections at the base. The fix wasn't just a basic weld and send-it situation. We custom fabricated a full set of new steel legs - round tube stock welded to flat mounting plates with pre-drilled bolt holes - so everything could bolt cleanly and securely back onto the chair frames.

Each leg was welded to its own plate right out of the back of our mobile rig. You can see the fresh weld beads at the base of each leg where the tube meets the plate - clean, consistent, and strong. Once the welds cooled, the legs went straight onto the chairs with hardware through those mounting plates. Four bolts per chair. No wobble. No slop.

That's really what this kind of job is about. It's not complicated, but it has to be done right. A bad weld or a sloppy fit means the chair fails again in six months - and with a set of heirloom pieces, that's not good enough. Good custom fabrication means the fix outlasts the original hardware.

If you've got metal furniture that's been sitting broken because you don't know who to call, this is exactly the kind of work we do. Small jobs, heirloom pieces, one-off repairs - all of it.