Services
restoration of flood damadged coffee table. Proven ability to handle insurance jobs with professionalism and precision.
Kimata Repairs does all sorts of restoration work, big or small, including
- Repairs to damaged furniture due to flooding, water and fire damages.
- Repairs for insurance companies
- Repairs to match the wood type and the style and period of the item
- Repair of scratches, dents, holes, splits, spot stains and flaws
- Repair to split or broken wood
- Remove old or deteriorated varnish and re-varnish
- Polish wood, stone, metal, and other surfaces
- Stain to match the colour
- Finish surfaces to match earlier periods, for example using French polish
- Replace canework
- Restore veneer work
- Colour and pattern matching
- Inlay and other decorative work
- Spot repairs to stone surfaces, mother of pearl, plastic, and ceramics such as China
- Furniture re-modelling and alterations
- Correcting warps
- Enabling degraded folding sections to work properly, e.g. extendable tables, or tilted dressing mirrors
On-site work (Auckland only)
Some items may be built into your house or building, or difficult to transport. In those cases I can come to you and complete the work at your site. For example:
- Bench tops, counters
- Floors
- Doors
- Built in wall cabinets, cupboards and wardrobes
- Mantel pieces
- We have also worked on-site with very heavy items, such as stone-topped tables.
We repair and restore furniture and other built features, including:
- Chairs and stools, captains chairs, pews
- Tables
- Shelves
- Cabinets, sideboards, cupboards
- Dressers, wardrobes
- Chests of drawers
- Desks
- Couches, sofas, daybeds, settees
- Beds
- Counters
- Sculpture, carvings
- Frames for paintings or artwork
- Umbrella and other stands, trunks, easels
- Podiums, rostrums, pulpits, lecterns
- Trundlers, trolleys, lockers
- Racks
We support repair and restoration for:
- Your home furniture
- Business furniture for offices, display and showrooms, meeting and function rooms
- Restaurant furniture
- Hotel furniture
- Gallery presentation furniture
- Film set period pieces
- Items to be sold, or which you have bought
- Furniture damaged by water, smoke, heat, direct sun, including insurance repairs
- Yacht and ship outfitting
- Vintage panelling
- Building construction incidental damage
Techniques
Arising from my experience in the field, I use a full range of tools and equipment, including:
- Traditional Japanese woodworking tools
- Western or mainstream hand tools
- Modern powered machinery for much drilling, sanding, cutting etc
- Natural daylight, as well as daylight-matching artificial lighting support
- We use the right glue and clamps to make joints and repairs secure
Finishing
We can:
- Match the colour to suit the other parts of the piece
- Match colour with other pieces in a set
- Inlay replacement timber and laminate
- Match the pattern to recover from flaws or breaks in the piece.
I work with:
- Solid timber
- Laminated surfaces
- Stone and plastic
- Attachments and connection components of all types
- Ceramic, porcelain, China
We can provide a finish coating of:
- Hard wearing non-toxic varnish
- French polish
- Extreme hard-wearing protection, sometimes used for bench tops, floors, and marine environments
- Ultra-violet resistant polyurethane
- Pigmented paint
- Stain
- Oils and waxes
- Shellac
- Lacquer
- Water-based products
For varnish finishes, I can show you examples of different sheens. The main options are:
- Matt (zero gloss)
- Satin (30% gloss)
- Semi-gloss (50% gloss)
- 75% gloss
- Glossy (100% gloss)