A MESSAGE FROM IOWA'S #1 CEDAR RAPIDS BOOTH UPHOLSTERY TEAM:
Cedar Rapids, IA building owner,
We recover restaurant booths, banquettes and bar seating without replacing the frames underneath. The frame is usually the expensive part and it is usually fine, so recovering costs far less than buying new seating and takes a fraction of the time. We work across Cedar Rapids and the towns around it.
The dining room has started to look older than it is. Vinyl splits at the seams, foam flattens where people actually sit, and a customer notices the worn booth before they notice anything else you have spent money on. You need it fixed around service, not instead of it. You want somebody who turns up, tells you straight what it needs, and does it properly the first time. The typical Cedar Rapids property dates to around 1973, so the building stock here is mostly seventies and eighties. With roughly 90 freeze-thaw days a year, anything that traps water moves and cracks.
We come and look at what you actually have, and measure it, rather than pricing it off a photograph you sent.
It says what is included and what is not, which is the only way to hold two quotes side by side and read them honestly.
If this can wait a season, we will say so. If it is worse than you thought, you will hear that from us first.
You might know this as restaurant booth repair. Same work, either name. Everything below is work we handle directly, not passed to a third party.
Old vinyl, staples, and compressed foam come off the plywood substrate so the shop can see rot, delamination, and broken springs before anything new goes on.
High-density polyurethane cut to the original profile and wrapped in dacron. Seat foam and back foam are usually different densities, and using one for both is a corner cut.
Contract vinyl rated for abrasion and tested for cleanability, not residential upholstery goods. Health inspectors care that the seating surface is non-porous and can be wiped down.
Channel stitching, buttoned tufting, and contrast welt cords all get rebuilt to match. Tufting adds labor hours and traps crumbs, which matters more in a diner than a steakhouse.
Loose corner blocks, cracked plywood decks, and broken sinuous springs get fixed while the panel is open. Skipping this puts new vinyl over a frame that will keep flexing.
Panels go back on the frames, bolts torqued, and the gap between booth and wall closed so crumbs and grease stop collecting where a mop cannot reach.
A cross-section of the jobs we handle around Cedar Rapids — different sizes, different conditions, same standard.
We work Cedar Rapids and the towns around it every week. We also cover Marion, Robins, Hiawatha, Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Springville, Lisbon and Shueyville. We know what the buildings here are like and how they age.
The crew on your job is licensed, insured, and on our books – we do not hand your work to a subcontractor and hope.
We do booth upholstery specifically. It is not an add-on to a general contracting business. Someone counts booths, measures seat and back panels, checks how the frames are anchored, and pulls a staple or two to see what the substrate underneath actually looks like.
You get the number before the work starts, and it does not move unless something is found that changes the job – which we show you first.
Anything to do with booth upholstery. To start with: strip to the deck, new foam and batting, commercial-grade vinyl, seams, welts, and tufting, frame and spring repair, refit and reinstall. If you need something that is not on that list, call and ask – we can usually quote it or tell you honestly who should.
We cover Cedar Rapids, IA and the surrounding towns – Marion, Robins, Hiawatha, Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Springville, Lisbon, Shueyville, Ely, Solon, Bertram, Palo, Atkins, Walford, Amana, Swisher, Shellsburg, Alburnett, Norway, East Amana, Newhall, Iowa City, Coralville, North Liberty, and more. If you do not see your town listed, call anyway and we will tell you straight whether we can get to you.
Strip to the deck – Old vinyl, staples, and compressed foam come off the plywood substrate so the shop can see rot, delamination, and broken springs before anything new goes on.; New foam and batting – High-density polyurethane cut to the original profile and wrapped in dacron. Seat foam and back foam are usually different densities, and using one for both is a corner cut.; Commercial-grade vinyl – Contract vinyl rated for abrasion and tested for cleanability, not residential upholstery goods. Health inspectors care that the seating surface is non-porous and can be wiped down.. Which one is right depends on what we find when we look at it, and we will walk you through the trade-offs rather than picking for you.
Strip to the deck is the one we are asked about most often in Cedar Rapids. Old vinyl, staples, and compressed foam come off the plywood substrate so the shop can see rot, delamination, and broken springs before anything new goes on.
Most jobs land between $55 and $900 per booth, depending on condition and scope. We come out, look at it, and give you a written estimate at no charge. We are not the cheapest outfit in Cedar Rapids and we will not pretend to be – but you will know exactly what you are paying for before anything starts.
Vinyl grade: Contract vinyl is rated in double rubs on a Wyzenbeek test. A 100,000 double-rub goods costs more per yard than a residential 15,000 rub material and lasts several times longer in a booth. That is usually the biggest single swing in a quote, which is why we look before we price.
Yes. We stand behind what we do and we put the terms in writing with the estimate, so the guarantee is not a handshake you have to remember later.
Call us at (319) 536-8708, or fill in the quote form on this page. We will get back to you, set a time that suits, and come look at the job.
Free estimate, in writing, from a Cedar Rapids team that does this every day.
Call us whenever suits. We handle every size of job, residential and commercial, across Cedar Rapids and the towns around it.
Your partner,
Cedar Rapids Booth Upholstery