Hi all! I have a bit of a dilemma with my living room couches. I need them to last a year or two longer. However, they are terrible. I managed to re-stuff the back cushions just fine using old pillows I cannibalized, but my problem is the seats. Here's the current situation:
* The base is seat belt webbing type material in a grid. I think this part is mostly fine.
* Cushions are springs (half of which are popping out), wrapped in several disjoint pieces of (now torn) foam, covered by a very thin layer of (now ripped) batting. The adhesive keeping it all together has worn out and the result is a lumpy, spring-poking, uncomfortable mess.
What sort of filler can I use to get another year or two out of these couches? The cost of new foam puts it right out - I don't like these couches enough to spend $100+ on fixing them. The foam currently in the couches is pretty unusable - each cushion was originally made of several pieces of foam glued together, and even those pieces are now getting town. I've tried some band-aid solutions on the springs which only sort of helped. I don't know that simple poly-fill fluff is good enough. Any recommendations? Cheap places to get foam? Any resources on fixing springs? Any other cheap fillers I could use?