Need upholstery supplies in Johannesburg? Reupholstery.co.za puts homeowners, upholsterers, designers and DIYers in Johannesburg in touch with upholstery supply shops serving Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng. Send one request and you receive quotes directly, free and with no obligation.
Upholstery Supplies in Johannesburg
Need upholstery supplies in Johannesburg? List what you need with quantities: webbing type and metres, springs, hessian, wadding, piping cord, zips, buttons, staples or legs. Say if you are a DIYer or a trade buyer and whether you need delivery, so supply shops in Gauteng can quote.
Want to know more first? Our upholstery supplies guide covers the materials, the work involved and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
The fabric shops around the CBD sell upholstery fabric off the roll, along with piping cord, zips by the metre, webbing and staples, and are a stop for DIYers recovering seat pads. Foam is cut to size by suppliers in the southern industrial areas, often while you wait. Upholstery cleaning is booked most before December and after winter, when couches in busy family homes need extraction cleaning, and machine hire suits flats with a single couch.
Johannesburg: the homes, the climate and the workshops
Upholstery in Johannesburg runs on two old trades that never left the inner city. Fabric and trimming shops still line the streets around the CBD, and motor trimmers work out of the older industrial pockets of Booysens, Selby and City Deep, close to the taxi ranks and the bakkie traffic heading south. Around them sit a century of suburbs: Parktown and Houghton houses with wingbacks and Chesterfields worth keeping, art deco flats in Killarney and Yeoville with compact lounge suites, and family homes in Soweto where home workshops recover couches in the yard. Distances and traffic matter here, so ask an upholsterer near you whether collection by bakkie is included. Dry Highveld winters crack neglected leather, so condition it before it splits.
Who asks for upholstery supplies around Johannesburg, most often first:
- Homeowners and tenants: webbing, wadding and staples for a DIY dining chair or footstool project at home
- Car, bakkie and taxi owners: foam, glue, staples and thread for motor trimmers rebuilding seats and door cards
- Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and lodges: springs, webbing and stud nails for maintaining restaurant chairs and bar stools in house
Local tips for Johannesburg
Upholsterers serving Johannesburg mostly work from here: cBD fabric and trimming shops, Booysens and Selby trimmers, Soweto home workshops. The jobs that come up most: lounge suites and wingbacks in older homes, taxi and bakkie seats, leather repairs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote includes collection, delivery and the fabric deposit.
Jobs range widely: a few metres to trade orders. Here, homeowners and tenants lead the requests, typically for webbing, wadding and staples for a DIY dining chair or footstool project at home. One local point to raise: workshops collect by bakkie; fabric and foam are bought in the CBD or the south.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Upholsterers and suppliers on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb and say whether the pieces must be collected, so the collection fee can be quoted honestly.