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Decent office chairs?
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Zarathustra
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If you are close to the Pretoria/Centurion area, I can recommend OfficeForum (http://www.officeforum.co.za) - Good products @ a decent price. The stuff we bought had a 5 year warranty. Don't buy the crap from Makro - Made in China & will not last!?!
HavocXphere
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Also make sure the back rest is fairly flat & not shaped to fit the body....because invariably its shaped according to the needs of a short guy.
Necuno
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Thanks, will do.
One thing I'm not sure about is which ones is good to support your back properly vs just having a chair with a long back.
McGuywer
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Now I am also starting to wonder if I need a new office chair...
HavocXphere
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If you can actually go & sit in it beforehand then you can aim for one that supports the back. If not just take a flat-ish one.
I'm looking for some decent office chairs at reasonable pricing. Anyone please suggest a place or two
If it’s for you this is of major importance. Many spend a major portion of their day (many hours) in front of a computer monitor. Consider how you work and tailor the chair to your style. If you program, you tend to lean forward so the chair back is not critical (although flattish is better). If you relax with hands behind the head and order people around, you want a tilting chair (or if you watch a lot of movies). How do you play games (body posture)? Do you skate around from monitor to monitor and between desks (execuglide)? Wheels are important. I have noticed that the armrest supports of many office chairs are pathetically thin and break. They often support the back as well. Go for beefy, strong and thickish armchair supports – or metal (not plastic). Cloth upholstery is better than that zooty leather or vinyl IMO. It’s not freezing cold (in cold weather) and you don’t sweat excessively and stick to it in hot weather. Avoid those kneely type ‘ergonomically approved’ chairs. They are crap. You want to be comfortable for 8 hours (or more). Stick with traditional.
Kornhub
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If you look at post 60( here http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/352518-iPad-16GB-3G-Wi-Fi-winner/page5 ) You can see that D3x! took a lovely pic of his wife posing with a great stool.
Eish...what has been seen cannot be unseen.
But onna more seriaaas note...
I echo the sentiments about makro, game, etc - avoid these places crap.
Don't know where you are situated, but I spotted some decent ones at Tafelberg Furnishers, and plan on getting one of them for myself.
I bought a chair from Makro several years back and it lasted really well - still going. Bought one for my missus recently and it's *really* crap - it's too low, and the backrest keeps slipping out of position.
OTOH, I bought a couple of really expensive chairs from an office furniture supplier (who shall remain nameless) and the backrests on both broke within a couple of years - a really crappy plastic design. These are things you can't see when you purchase.
You're really in a catch-22 situation trying to find something worthwhile, but what I *do* recommend is do your homework well, as nothing can bugger up your back/coccyx more than a crappy chair, if you have to spend a lot of time in it.
What makes it worse is that chairs are often a status indicator in a corporate environment. If you are a high ranking executive you have an expensive, ergonomically decent chair which you only sit-in between golf games. If you are a low ranking poor sod sitting and staring at a monitor all day, you have a cheapo chair which indicates your lowly status in the corporate hierarchy. They need a good chair more than the golf-playing twat does.
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Picard
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My office/classroom chair is a stool.
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I looked for one for a long time, the ones at the office shops are rediculously priced though 
Like R5000 for some. Game has a absolute crap but I found that Makro have a much larger selection and you can pick up one for about R1000. I did and had it for a year so far and its going strong.
Like R5000 for some. Game has a absolute crap but I found that Makro have a much larger selection and you can pick up one for about R1000. I did and had it for a year so far and its going strong.If I am going to spend R5000+ plus I'd just go with something from Herman Miller or Human Scale. They're expensive, but I've never sat in more comfortable, supportive chairs. The Embody for instance is absolutely amazing.
