Pubs and bars
Pub seating upholstery and bar reupholstery
Pub seating upholstery and bar reupholstery across Greater Manchester. Banquettes, booths and bar stools in Crib 5 fabric from £45 a stool. Free quotes from photos; phased so you keep trading.
Fire paperwork done
Crib 5 fabric and combustion-modified foam, with the certificates and care instructions in your handover pack.
Keep trading
Sections rotate through the workshop, and a single banquette can turn around overnight.
We come and look
Free site visit within about 15 miles, before the final figure.
On the floor
Venue seating we work on.
"Representative" images show the type of seating, not a customer's venue. Finished work is on our projects and gallery pages.
Working with us
How it works.
Strip to the frame 
Check the springs 
New webbing 
Chalk and cut 
Hand-finish 
Finished
- 01
Measure and photograph
Send photos, rough lengths and how the seating is fixed. For larger venues across Greater Manchester we arrange a site visit.
- 02
Confirm the spec
We agree fabric, foam, Crib 5 requirements, access, collection and any closure windows before the quote is final.
- 03
Strip and rebuild
Sections come back to the Stalybridge workshop to be stripped, re-foamed where needed, and recovered in your chosen contract fabric.
- 04
Recover in phases
Where possible we rotate sections through so the venue does not lose more seating than needed and keeps trading.
- 05
Return and refit
Finished seating is returned, refitted and checked in the room so it is ready for trade.
In scope
What we cover.
- Bar reupholstery: fixed bar seating, bar stools and counter-front padding
- Pub seating upholstery: fixed bench seating, booths and loose pub chairs
- Restaurant booth and banquette seating, recovered by section or linear metre
- Restaurant booth seat repair: single split or sagging seats colour-matched to the run
- Crib 5 contract fabric, faux leather, vinyl, wool and wipe-clean options
- Foam replacement where existing seating has collapsed or gone uneven
- Bar furniture upholstery repairs: frame tightening, seam and burst-seat fixes
- Phased collection and refit around quiet days, closure windows or opening hours
The detail
Questions people ask about pub seating upholstery and bar reupholstery.
Pub seating upholstery
Pub seating upholstery covers fixed bench runs, corner booths, loose pub chairs and the banquette seating along a bar wall. We quote from photos and rough lengths, visit larger venues to measure, and phase work so you keep trading. This is the exact service most licensees search for when seating looks tired but the frames are still sound. See also our hospitality hub for hotels and full-venue refits.
Bar reupholstery service
Our bar reupholstery service covers everything a venue sits its customers on: fixed bar seating, bar stools, padded counter fronts and the loose chairs around the room. Bar furniture takes a harder life than anything in a home. It gets leaned on, dragged, spilled on and cleaned every single day. We strip tired seats back, replace failed foam and recover in contract-grade fabric built for the wear. We run a full bar furniture reupholstery service for pubs and bars across Greater Manchester and the North-West from our Stalybridge workshop, quoting each piece honestly so you only pay to fix what has actually failed.
Pub seating upholstery and banquette recovers
Pub seating upholstery is our core hospitality work: fixed bench seating, booths, banquette runs and loose pub chairs. We quote pub seating reupholstery from photos, rough lengths and quantities, then visit larger venues to measure and check how the seating is fixed. Banquettes are priced by section or linear metre, recovered in Crib 5 fabric or wipe-clean vinyl, with brass-headed nail trim or piping to match your existing fittings where you want it. Across Tameside and Greater Manchester we have recovered everything from a single bench to a full pub’s worth of seating.
Bar and restaurant seating upholstery
For bar and restaurant seating upholstery we cover booths and banquettes as a complete run or a single seat. If one booth has split, sagged or burst at a seam, our restaurant booth seat repair and restaurant booth upholstery repair service recovers just that seat and colour-matches the fabric to the rest, no need to redo the whole row. For booth reupholstering across a dining room we strip back, re-foam and rebuild each section. We will always tell you when a single-seat repair will sit right against the others and when a fuller recover is the better call. Running a restaurant or cafe rather than a pub? See restaurant and cafe seating.
Crib 5 contract fabric for pubs, bars and restaurants
Most hospitality work uses Crib 5 contract fabric, faux leather or vinyl. Every commercial cover we put up is certified to BS 5852 Crib 5, with combustion-modified foam underneath. This is not something we compromise on for licensed premises. Where the fabric you have specified is not natively Crib 5 we treat it and certificate the lot, so your fire-safety paperwork is complete before doors open. If the existing foam is uneven or tired we say so before quoting the recover, because new fabric over collapsed foam is a poor result, and bar furniture upholstery repairs to loose frames are flagged as a separate line rather than hidden in the price.
For tenants, licensees and area managers
If you run a tied or tenanted pub, who pays for the seating usually depends on your agreement, so we write the quote in a form you can put straight to your area manager: itemised by seat type, with fabric, foam and Crib 5 certification as separate lines. If you run more than one venue, we can quote them together as a schedule. Social and members’ clubs, where a committee signs off the spend, have their own page: club seating reupholstery.
Free quotes and turnaround for venues
We give free quotes on every job and, for venue refits across Greater Manchester, a free site visit for venue jobs within about 15 miles of the workshop (further afield by arrangement). The best route is usually the same: keep what is sound, replace what has failed, and phase the work so the venue is not carrying avoidable downtime. Single banquettes can turn around overnight; a full pub or restaurant refit runs over a week or two, rotated section by section so you keep trading. Tell us your opening hours from the start and we plan the schedule backwards from them.
Where we work
Pub work starts at our Stalybridge workshop and reaches pubs in Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Dukinfield, Mossley, Denton, Glossop, Oldham, Stockport, Manchester and Salford. A single banquette can be turned round overnight, and the site visit is free for venue jobs within about 15 miles of the workshop (further afield by arrangement).
Related pages
- Hospitality upholstery: the full pub, bar, restaurant and hotel hub
- Bar stool reupholstery: round, studded and high-back stools in batches
- Townhouse Hotel, Manchester: 70 chairs and a curved booth for a hotel brasserie
- Commercial upholstery: how contract jobs run from brief to handover
- Foam replacement and cut to size: new foam for collapsed bench and booth seating
- Repairs and restoration: frame tightening and bar furniture upholstery repairs
- The Black Bull pub refit: full banquette, booth and bar-stool recover in Stalybridge, Crib 5 wool
- Upholstery in Stalybridge and Manchester: our North-West catchment
- Get a pub seating quote
What customers say
From customers who have used this service.
“The team at Valley upholstery are perfect! We had a load of our chairs for my hotel lounge re-upholstered and they are now back and completed and look like brand new! Would recommend to anyone. Will definitely be back in touch if we need anything else done.”
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Other hospitality venues we work in.
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Frequently asked
Common questions about this service.
- How long does reupholstery take?
- Most domestic projects take two to four weeks from collection to delivery. Caravans usually run two to three weeks. Single dining chairs are often back within a week. We agree the timeline up front and stick to it.
- Can I choose any fabric or leather?
- You can choose from hundreds of fabrics and leathers in our Stalybridge showroom: Cristina Marrone, Rosemount Fabrics, Ross Fabrics, Sunbury Designs, Warwick, Wemyss, Agua, Futura Leathers, Crest Leather, Nene Valley Leathers and more. Prices run from about £15 per metre to around £120 per metre.
- What guarantee do you offer?
- Workmanship is guaranteed, with a two-year craftsmanship guarantee on production and contract work. Fabric durability is governed by the supplier's own rub-test rating; we'll explain that when you choose.
- Can you repair a single damaged restaurant booth seat rather than recovering the whole run?
- Yes. If one booth or banquette section has split, sagged or burst at a seam we can repair or recover just that seat and colour-match the fabric to the rest of the run. We will tell you honestly when a single-seat repair will look right against the others and when a fuller recover is the better call.
- Can you reupholster our bar and pub seating without closing the venue?
- In most cases, yes. We rotate fixed bench, booth and banquette sections through our Stalybridge workshop a part at a time, and recover loose bar stools and chairs in batches, so you never lose more than a small share of seating at once. For larger refits across Greater Manchester we phase the work around quiet days, closure windows or overnight slots agreed before we start.
- Do you supply Crib 5 fire-rated foam and fabric for pubs, restaurants and venues?
- Yes. All hospitality, commercial and public-sector work uses combustion-modified foam and fabrics tested to BS 5852 Crib 5 (and Crib 7 where the spec requires it). We provide the test certificates with every quote and again when the job is signed off.
- Do you do commercial and hospitality jobs?
- Yes. Pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, offices, healthcare, retail, schools, colleges and universities. We work to fire safety regulations (Crib 5 where required) and around your trading hours.
- Are you fire-safety compliant?
- Yes, At Valley Upholstery, all our domestic upholstery meets British Standards BS 5852/BS 7176 for fire safety, and we also supply combustion-modified foam where the use case requires it. The cigarette and match tests required for home upholstery (often BS 5852) are critical safety assessments for upholstery fabrics, designed to prevent fires by simulating common ignition sources. A smouldering cigarette must not cause ignition or smouldering, while a lit match (or equivalent flame) held for 20 seconds must not cause sustained flaming. These tests are essential for UK home safety compliance. Commercial upholstery fire safety - fabrics in the UK must adhere to strict regulations, primarily requiring BS 5852 Crib 5 testing for high-risk areas like offices, hotels, and restaurants. Common materials include treated polyester, wool blends, and vinyl, which are designed to withstand smouldering cigarettes and butane flames.
- Do you offer free quotes?
- Yes. Free, no-obligation quotes by phone, email, WhatsApp, in shop or, for larger jobs, on site. Unsure how it will look? Send photos of the piece, rough sizes, and the style or fabric you have in mind. We will send a written quote with example looks so you can decide with confidence. Looks are a guide (not a guarantee of exact fabric match); final finish is confirmed in the quote.
Send us the seating and your opening hours.
Photos and rough quantities are enough to start. We price it itemised, then plan the work around when you trade.