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Originally Posted by Texas Steve
... I might try what John is going to do over the winter, and try my hand at recovering them myself. We checked with a couple of upholsterers and they range between 3200 and 4500 plus material!
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I'm certainly no upholsterer and definitely not an accomplished seamstress, but I bought my own Singer heavy duty sewing machine several years ago and have used it quite often over the years.
When I was in the military, one of the guys that worked for me had a "long, steamy past" and spent a few years in prison. While there, they taught him upholstery as a profession when he got out of the "big house"...
He taught me a few of the basic techniques. What I plan to do is to "disassemble the chair cover at the seams" and use those pieces as a pattern to cut and sew a new cover, then staple it in place on the chair.
Through the years, I've learned that vinyl material is extremely difficult to sew properly (it puckers and doesn't lay flat like woven cloth). So, I plan to use a "DW approved" cloth upholstery material with no pattern either from the clearance rack or from the "budget fabric rack" at Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's Fabrics. The cheaper the better, as I don't expect this to look like a "$3500 job"... Rather, I'm hoping for a "presentable to go back in the trailer if/when we sell it".... Yep, those RecPro glide recliners are "that comfortable".... It's the most comfortable chair I can remember using in any travel trailer we've owned. Should have bought them in 2014 when the trailer was new, but "live and learn"....