repair/restore bistro egg seats

[dick27]

I have these in white. The string bit is broken. I read a blog a while ago suggesting repair with paracord. The cost of the paracord seems prohibitively expensive. Has anyone successfully restrung these kinds of chairs? What with?

Where are you looking at paracord? It's pretty cheap on eBay. 100ft for £7.29 here https://ebay.us/m/5VxBZY
100 ft/30 m per chair sounds about right? I'd take it all off and measure before ordering.

Thank you. Last year I measured them and looked up paracord and the cost on Amazon was going to be more than I paid for the chairs! I had a brainwave earlier and found a v niche v local shop that stocks it so I'm going to have a look and probably have a go with that.

Ah, yes fixing things is often more expensive! But also more satisfying than binning perfectly good things. Plus an opportunity to change the colour if you wish.

I think it'll definitely look nicer in the original plastic covered wire. I wonder whether it's not just washing line?

The stuff on the original chairs is like coated plastic something or other - quite washing liney. I suspect there are many variations on a theme...with some hardier than others. I am high up in the North and didnt take mine in over winter. I am changing up the white for something brighter. And it will be much cheaper than replacing, which, cost aside is also chuffing dreadful for the environment

Suspect it's PVC so unless you can find a UV resistant version (not sure that exists), it's always going to break and discolour outside, like most flexible plastics do. I wonder whether waxed 5-10mm braided cotton cord would work?