When To Restore?
10 key questions to help you decide if it's time to restore your treasured pieces.
Long considered one of Raleigh Durham’s most reliable furniture repair shops, Mumford Restoration has the experience and knowledge to repair old furniture or damaged furniture to its original splendor.
With more than 150 years of combined experience, Mumford Restoration tops the list of talented craftsmen for Raleigh furniture repair stores.
Don’t trust your precious pieces with just anyone. With more than 150 years of combined experience and third-generation craftsmen, Mumford Restoration is trusted by families, museums, and art societies in Raleigh-Durham, all of North Carolina, and across the U.S., to provide best-in-class restoration and repairs of sentimental & fine-furniture, antiques, and family heirlooms.
Mumford Restoration offers restoration expertise, professional damage assessment, and estimated retail value on items (not structures) that have been damaged from fire/water, moving, and other types of commercial/residential damage.
We make it easy to connect with us about your restoration or repair—let us know how we can be of service to you and your family!
You might guess, given the business we’re in, that antique radio, phonograph, and record player restoration is very important to us. Nothing quite takes us back to the simpler days before television, The Golden Age of Radio, like an antique radio; where families gathered ‘round to listen to live drama, comedy, music, and news. These listeners were our grandparents and great-grandparents.
10 key questions to help you decide if it's time to restore your treasured pieces.
Helpful advice for antique radio owners.
See incredible transformations of antique radios, phonographs, and record players.
Long gone are the days when we listened to the radio outside of our cars—and even now, many of us stream music instead. But antique radios, phonographs, and record players aren’t just relics of the past; they’re tangible pieces of history.
At Mumford Restoration, we believe they deserve more than a dusty shelf or the junk pile. These pieces connect us to a time before technology ruled our lives, and if we don’t preserve them, who will?
Our restoration process operates on a waitlist, with new units accepted once or twice a year. Pricing is provided upfront, tailored to either:
• Full restoration—including both the cabinet and internal components
• Technical restoration -- focused solely on functionality, based on the client's goals
Our technical restoration process involves a complete overhaul of internal components, ensuring the unit operates reliably for years to come.
**At this time, we do not offer technical restoration for transistor radios, shortwave radios, solid-state radios, 8-tracks, cassette players, or CD players.**
Average turnaround time is 12 months from the time we receive the radio.
Antique radio repair is a meticulous process and radio repair specialists are becoming increasingly rare, with only a few master technicians remaining in the U.S. It takes these experts a little time to work through projects that come from all over the country. The results are worth the wait, however. Our customers have been astonished at the beauty and sound clarity of their newly repaired radios.
For the average person, repairing a decades-old antique radio, phonograph, or record player can be a daunting challenge. Components were not well standardized in the past—each manufacturer had their own approach, and thousands of models were produced over the years. Many vintage and novelty pieces were only on the market for a short time, making proper restoration even more complex.
For over 40 years, Mumford Restoration has specialized in bringing these antique radios, phonographs, and record players back to life. From the earliest crystal radio sets to high-value tube-powered radios like the Zenith Stratosphere 1000Z, our team has the expertise to source rare parts, perform intricate repairs, and restore your piece to its former glory.
⚠ Be cautious when plugging in an old cord—it could shock you!
📻 If your radio isn’t playing well, old capacitors may be the culprit. Replacing aged paper/wax and electrolytic capacitors is often the first step in repairs.
⚡ Many vintage radios operate at high voltage—some even tie the hot end of the power line directly to the metal chassis.
🎵 A loose ground wire may cause a persistent hum when turned on.
If you own one of these incredible pieces of history, we hope you'll entrust it to us. Antique radio restoration is one of our specialties, and we take pride in preserving these treasured artifacts for future generations.
We repair and restore all brands of antique radios including:
We pick-up and deliver in many areas of North Carolina. Because we serve clients all over the U.S. it is very common for clients to ship their radio to us for restoration and of course, we ship it back.
Questions about having your heirloom or antique radio or Victrola restored? Contact one of our Restoration Consultants today to discuss your goals.