Kitchen chairs typically take a beating what with a constant round of friends and family, including exuberant children and people whose weight is only exceeded by their love of your good cooking. This means that chairs in the kitchen may well start to suffer from broken or wobbly legs, or may start to gouge grooves into a floor that is not built out of some very hard material.
Repair or replacement are two options that are always available, and prevention, when you can do it in time, is a third one. If legs on kitchen chairs come loose or get cracked, then try the following before rushing out to buy a whole new chair. If the joint is loose, first break the joint apart before applying wood glue on the corresponding surfaces and putting the leg back in position. Reinforce the joint by then driving in a wood screw of a length of 1inch. By sinking the head of the screw into the wood you can then put wood putty over the head of the screw and color the putty to the appropriate shade corresponding to the chair.
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For a cracked or broken leg, remove the damaged leg from the chair in question and take it to your local D. I. Y. store to see if you can get a matching replacement. If this is the case, then use the appropriate wood stain or varnish to match the color of the new leg to the rest of the chair. Glue the leg in place against the wood joints of the chair itself, using wood screws to hold the different pieces together. Drive the screws into the wood far enough so that you can then apply a little wood putty to hide the head of the screw. Finish off by using some more of the same wood stain or varnish to make the wood putty blend in with the rest of the chair.
For the chairs that are making tracks in your floor, or driving your neighbors up the wall if you live in an apartment, then you can try either sticking self-adhesive felt pads to the bottom of each leg where it meets the floor, or other methods such as tennis balls. The goal is to soften the impact of the chair being moved over the floor and to muffle the noise and vibration that this can cause. You can also cover the bottom of the legs of kitchen chairs with pincushions.
When the time comes to buying new kitchen chairs, you'll be able to take the noise and vibration factor into account. Many kitchen chairs are sold with a rubber tipped feet for this very reason. It's almost a given that kitchen floors will be made out of some hard material, as it is a rare thing to have any form of carpeting in the kitchen for obvious reasons. Chairs with rubber tipped feet will therefore be that much more quiet, stable and non-slip, which are also important, factors in such an environment.
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