Help with rollers on chairs
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Bernice H
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How to control casters on chairs?
We sit and fly...backwards.
23 answers
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While sitting on the chair with castors you should get hold of both the hands of the chair and then sit slowly.
Ashok Anant Khare
on Jun 20, 2016
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For a chair with rollers, you might need a vinyl protecter to keep safe.or a rug underneath. The slick floors are not helping.
Barbara C
on Jun 21, 2016
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Hi Bernice, a couple of things. Is the total chair flying backwards or is it actually pivoting so that the back goes back and the front edge gets higher? If the chair is pivoting it may be totally bad design and I'd need to see under the chair to give a good answer. if it is the castors fault then the starting point is to work out what sort of castors you actually have. In most countries castors come in different classes for the surface. In general they are designed for carpet and a softish floor covering, but your picture suggests "composite wood" floors, which, when matched to castors designed for high friction materials, will be very slippery and so shoot out in the opposite direction from the force of you sitting in the chair. You have 2 main options: replace the castors with castors designed for hard floors - and this should be a very cheap option, or change the floor covering - maybe a rug or similar. It is possible to modify some castors but most will be wrecked by modifying them. Hope this helps as it is the best I can do with the limited information and the specific picture provided! PS. I have been an ergonomist and human factors engineer for approximately 25 years.
Amir
on Jun 21, 2016
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If you have good casters that roll freely (which is what you actually want), then you need to put down a small, low pile rug to roll on. It not only protects your floor, but it stabilizes the chair!
Jeanette S
on Jun 21, 2016
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Hi Bernice I would concur with Amir and you can change the castor very cheaply to castors that have a little lever to the side, thus enables you to sit down safely and then release to allow movement when required. Ikea I know has many very cost effective options. Good luck.
Annie Doherty
on Jun 21, 2016
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I'd take the casters off. Perhaps put solid wooden drawer knobs on as feet?
Ranger
on Jun 21, 2016
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put a rug underneath it.
Pat
on Jun 21, 2016
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You may just want to change the way you sit down, not throw yourself into the chair, sit straight down a bit more gently?.
Johnchip
on Jun 21, 2016
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a four leg caster chair is unsafe. the office furniture industry has not sold them for a commercial space in years. however, you could have carpet casters on your hard surface floor. change the casters out to the "rubberized" hard surface version. safer yet, get a 5 star base chair!!
Cheesecake chick
on Jun 21, 2016
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try putting a rubber band on each. Just small enough to wrap 2 times around. It might help
Linda Fraser
on Jun 21, 2016
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Please be careful how you sit down....a friend sat down on his castered chair and it rolled out from under him and he ended up in the hospital with a concussion. I would put a rug under your chair, different casters or even try to rubber band Linda mentioned.
Pat
on Jun 21, 2016
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Bernice, Hi. there are clear mats you can get for under your chair. They are called office chair mats. They protect your floor and can help with keeping the chair from moving. There are different kinds. You can google them.
Leslie
on Jun 21, 2016
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It's true, if it's on linoleum, or another smooth surface, and you plop down in these things, you'll go flying across the room. Mine is on thick carpet, which makes it hard to roll so I bought some chair mats to make it roll easier. I WANT mine to roll, if you don't, put carpet under it, like a nice area rug, as the mats will work like a smooth floor. I think you'll like it better if you just be careful how you sit down in them.
Cindi
on Jun 21, 2016
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Putting a rug underneath will make it difficult to "roll".
Angel
on Jun 21, 2016
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Maybe find some casters w/double braking capability, swapping out all 4 casters. Double brake casters, halt, not only the wheel from rolling, butstopping it from swiveling. I wonder if switching to two fixed (or rigid) casters and two double locking brake casters, would yield the same or simlar results as shopping carts, which is how they're set up. There's two fixed casters in the rear (closer to the person pushing the cart), and two swiveling casters up in front. Thats even if you like the chair enough to keep around, obviously. But ultimately, changing the material of the area where your chair is rolling on, as well as PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY, & HOW YOU MOUNT AND DISMOUNT THE CHAIR, are ALWAYS gonna be key factors. Hope this at least got you another option under your belt, or something else to consider.
Hanu
on Jun 21, 2016
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I did not notice that it was next to your dining table and because it lacked a description other than what you wrote it looked like a very nice desk chair. If you have had accidents in the past with these chairs I would very definitely think of deciding which to do of the above suggestions. :) Those chairs are a bad accident waiting to happen.
Leslie
on Jun 21, 2016
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I set the rollers into empty tuna cans....works for me. You can paint them or whatever.
Vickie
on Jun 21, 2016
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Wow, empty tuna cans that would of saved me from landing on my rear a few years back, where I sew one of the gals thought having wood floors would be cool. Not so much... the floor got carpeted with an office type carpeting and the chairs are not so easy to roll but no one has lost their seat because of wood floors.
Kathy Bitzan
on Jun 21, 2016
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I'm thinking you could probably add a strip of foam type door/window weather stripping around the wheels so that they will still roll but not as easily. I would think it would have the same type of effect as putting a rug under it. It's worth a try as it's not expensive and if it doesn't work you could easily remove it.
Sarah Jackson
on Jun 21, 2016
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See what you can find in an office supply store or online in the way of a textured plastic carpet cover used under office desk chairs
JoAnn Dibeler
on Jun 21, 2016
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The office supply store is a good suggestion if you are not interested in adding an area rug. There are casters designed for hard flooring, that hopefully don't slip, and casters for carpeted areas. You may be able to change them. Try a home improvement/hardware store as well.
Margaret
on Jun 21, 2016
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I would recommend you attach door stoppers to the two back rollers. before sitting just position the chair at the right place you desire and just put down the stoppers and am sure they hold tight.
Radha
on Jun 22, 2016
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Ahhh, if you roll them around in my sewing room for about 6 months, you'd have so many little bits of threads caught in the wheels, you could hardly roll it... ;-D That being said, perhaps wrapping a bit of butcher's twine around the space between the casters might work (you could even try thin color-coordinated bias tape). You'd have to experiment with how much works for you.
Kcama
on Jun 22, 2016
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