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A do-it-yourself guide from Edinburgh Woodturning - suppliers of high quality legs and bun feet for Sofas, chairs, beds, footstools and most furniture. www.edinburghwoodturning.com

This page shows you how to fit T-Nuts to the majority of upholstered Sofas, Chairs, Footstools and some Beds. The assumption is that your furniture does not have legs fitted at present. If there are different size T-Nuts already in position then they can be easily removed by levering with a screwdriver.

You will need access to the inside of the furniture which may mean removing
(un-stapling ) the fabric (or hessian) covering often found on the underside of such furniture. The covering can normally be re-stapled in position using a standard domestic stapler.

If you remove the hessian and then realise that you cannot get access to the top of the wooden rail, you will need a different type of fixing. Refer to the section titled “Select a Fixing”

T-NUTS

5) Correctly fitted legs will look like this one in the

cutaway section in photo 5.

The T-Nut must be at the TOP of the wooden rail and the leg is screwed in from below.

If the T-Nut is able to move in the oversized hole, then the leg will always align with the wooden rail and it will be vertical.

To achieve maximum strength, an 8 mm dowel screw only needs to enter the T-Nut by about 10 mm.

The dowel does not need to protrude out from the top of the T-Nut.