Posted: Fri Jan 02, 26 9:16 am Post subject: That Office Chair
it's a proper office chair on wheels with good back support, pump up pressure to alter the height, 10 years old and well used.
It needs a new seat to give it life for another 10 years. Right, plenty of ideas on YouTube. But 2 hitches. Finding a new seat - they seem to cost as much as the chair did new or nearly as much as a new chair. And secondly having the tools/skills to do the job.
Herein lies the hitches for modern DIY - parts. tools, skill of hand. But mostly parts. Oh and design. You are no longer meant to repair. Buy new is the cry.
You can buy foam bits, and recovering can be done with any hard wearing fabric. I haven't done that, but did make covers for our 1970s suite to prolong the life of the cushions. Careful measurements and even hand stitching will do the job, not to professional standards, but it can be done.
Unfortunately it needs the seat attaching to the frame for it to be safe and usable. This seat is on wheels so a cushion that's loose would be a safety hazard.
Yep there's a repair shop in the local big town. Thing is I don't drive so I'd have to take the chair on 2 buses there and 2 buses back (bit like going to the tip ). Of course it might not come under their list of skills either.
I think I put this chair in the same category as the washing machine replaced this week. The local respected electrician diagnosed a fault that would usually come under one of these plans that you pay so much per month to have a technician come out with a van of spares to deal with it. On a 7 year old machine you'd have paid to buy 2 new ones on plans like that.
As lady next door said when she realised that she'd been paying for a plan for her telly for 5 years, had no faults and it would have been cheaper to put money in the piggy bank as she could have bought 2 new tellies for what she'd paid.
Old school friend said she'd had a plan for her washing machine and for the hassle of claiming, she's said never again. She's no shrinking violet ain't Jane either.
Some of those plans aren't worth having, others are. White goods are reasonably reliable these days, so tend not to go wrong for quite a time. Most of ours are pretty old now, particularly the fridge, which I hope will carry on for many more years. Only worth having those plans on things that are likely to go wrong.
). Of course it might not come under their list of skills either.
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