Been quoted £380 each to recover these chairs! Does anyone have upholsterer recommendations in london or thereabouts?

[MrsGethinJones]

I really love these chairs but glad i checked how much it would be to have them recovered before buying them.

£350 each!! Im staggered! Does anyone have any upholsterer recommendations? Can travel outside of london

£350 per chair is cheap and I'd question their work standards for a price like that. If it includes fabric, I'd run like the wind in the opposite direction.

Those are antique chairs, OP. You would need to strip to the frame which would take at least an hour; check the webbing underneath, possibly rebuilding the complete structure of the chair. You would then rebuild (as the contents underneath are likely to have rotted/perished) using either natural materials or foam and then recover, and you'd need a few hours of sewing with the piping and buttons. I'd allow probably two days labour, if not more.

It's a very specialist job done by craftsman.

Thanks @spinningspaniels i think i had understood that the chairs only needed to be recovered however i should probably check baswd in your description. Price doesn’t include material

It's a craftsman's job, I doubt you'd get decent reupholstery for a penny less and if you did I'd question the quality of the work...

It is an outlay, but furniture like that will last a lifetime, it's an investment.

We had a chair in last week that the customer just wanted recovered. It was around 12/14 years old and from a fairly well known company.

Once the cover was stripped, the foam in the arms and sides literally exploded like popcorn all over the floor and we ended up with a 3 day job instead of a 1 day. We had to get the customer in to show them how badly the foam had perished.

It's also a lot safer to replace the foam as the newer stuff is far better lasting, and has the better fire retardancy chemicals in.

That’s cheap. I spent £600 having an armchair recovered 20 years ago; the chair is still going strong now.

Seems a bargain to me (possibly too much of one). What did you think it would cost

That’s cheap.

Sorry OP, reupholstery simply is one of those jobs that costs way more than you expect it to.

No advice but wanted to agree the chair shape is gorgeous!

Hi everyone - it sounds as if 350 is right or even cheap. It seems expensive to me as by the time i buy the chairs, have them delivered, and buy the material they will cost over £1k which seemed a lot for 2 secind hand chairs when i could buy some decent new ones for the same price.
Trying to be sustainable but will need to have a think

That's a fair price if you want them doing properly.