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| Thread ID: 38141 | 2003-09-28 11:50:00 | computer chairs, seating etc | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 178687 | 2003-10-14 03:40:00 | PJ just letting you know i went and found the said shop, but have not actually bought anything yet.... it was amazing it had heaps of assorted (crap) of tables, chairs desks etc and definetly when get money in my hand will be looking there as well as the warehouse..... the lady was quite astonished i did not the shop was there..... she had quite a chuckle.... has it been there a while then? thanxs PJ beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 178688 | 2003-10-14 08:23:00 | The secret to a comfortable seat(apparently) is to have all your joints ie. knees, hips, elbows at right angles. The prime measurement to me seems to be the desk height which governs the chair height(to get the elbows right). In my case the desk is about 100 cms too high, so I use a lump of 4"*4" as a footrest . Its suprising how much I use it, if its not in the right place I almost always find it to get "right". My chair has levers for backrest, height and seat tilt, and is the most comfortable seat in the house. Now all I need is some new specs! | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 178689 | 2003-10-15 04:55:00 | I agree with Rod ger about the right angle rule - that is what I was taught by an Occupational Therapist who surveys workplaces on contract to ACC - I got them to check out my set up as part of my rehab from a nasty motor bike accident. And the height of your monitor is critical too. I have had four computer chairs in my time, each one an upgrade on the earlier model. I need a good chair because I am on the computer most of the day, and because of the need to deal with periodic back problems. My current chair was bought from Boise (formerly known as Whitcoulls). It is a Boston Apex Executive chair. It has a fabric surface (NOT VINYL!!!), a high back, arms, and three levers like Rod ger's chair - height, back rest, and seat tilt. The seat tilt is really useful - this is the first chair I have had with it and tilting the seat forward is really useful to take the pressure off your thighs. I also use a footrest bought years ago from Whitcoulls. I could not do without it. You can set the height and angle of the footrest to take the pressure off the back of your thighs. I noticed when I bought my current chair that they now grade chairs by how many hours you can sit in them! Some were 6 hour chairs and some were 8 hour models! I also have a kneeling chair - I bought it years ago, and whilst I do not use it for long, I have kept it because sometimes I get back aches from constantly using a sitting chair and then I swap to the kneeling chair for a week or so. It seems to ease the back (maybe it strengthens the muscles again that have been under-utilised in the sitting position. However, after a week or so, I find the pressure on my knees and shins intolerable and go back to the sitting chair again. Thinks - I haven't used the kneeling chair once since I bought my current computer chair - maybe that tells you something about the value of spending as much as you can for a good quality chair. The price of my current chair was just under $400, but they were having a promotion at the time so I think the normal retail price was quite a bit higher. |
John H (8) | ||
| 178690 | 2003-10-15 06:49:00 | John H raises some very good points here. Chairs are indeed rated at hours per day. Make sure you get one rated for your expected use, its both a matter of comfort for you and the life of the chair. I changed to a more expensive chair this year, high back, fabric, adjustable support etc. It made me realise how bad the old plain "office gaslift chair" was. I spend at least 8 hours a day in it. One point John, you say "My current chair was bought from ...", does that imply its an electric chair? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 178691 | 2003-10-15 07:30:00 | so basically youre saying get a lazy beetle chair :D and never leave the puter if i do that..... and yes i seen a few expensive comfy ones and always thought i should spend my money on other things not a flash chair.... ?:| maybe i ask for christmas instead of office prog ? may get this instead.... but then again he may not want me to have a comfy chair...i may spend longer in front of puter then... :D nothing can be as bad as this vinyl one nearly as old as the motel.... thanxs beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 178692 | 2003-10-15 08:37:00 | >One point John, you say "My current chair was bought from ...", does that imply its an electric chair? Arrrggggghhhhhh! |
John H (8) | ||
| 178693 | 2003-10-15 08:43:00 | >nothing can be as bad as this vinyl one nearly as old as the motel.... Vinyl chairs - yech! My idea of torture is to sit in a vinyl chair in the summer during a Canterbury norwester, especially if you are wearing shorts (or, I imagine, wearing a short skirt, but I wouldn't know about that...). That is even worse than driving a car that has vinyl seats during the summer. |
John H (8) | ||
| 178694 | 2003-10-15 08:53:00 | hmmmm...I got both my chairs from demolition sites :D And i had to give up my prior job last year due to ongoing back problems.15 years of experience wasted :-( |
metla (154) | ||
| 178695 | 2003-10-16 11:17:00 | The Formway Life Chair was designed in NZ by Formway furniture incidently. Over 4 years of research and development was undertaken at a relitavely cheap (by international standards) of about 4 million dollars This resulted in a chair that performs like no other. It comes in a range of options (fabrics/leather/plastic. arms/noarms etc Range is about $700or$800 to $1000 dollars To take on the international market a deal was struck with Knoll furniture in the United States. Knoll manufactures most of the chairs for a small commision. Before the chairs went on sale there were already 40,000 orders. It truly is a great chair. Formway has a show room in Blair or Allen st in Wellington (i forget which) The chair was at the Sweden 101 exhbition at the Dowse in Lower Hutt And no I don't work for formway. Im an Industrial Design Student(product design) at Massey University |
superOman (745) | ||
| 178696 | 2003-10-16 13:13:00 | what about the chairs that give u neck massages as u sit there...would be nice ;) | csinclair83 (200) | ||
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