What happens that leads to your office chair ending up on a dump site (that is, unless you know that The Office Chair Repairer can rescue it)

Follow this video, showing how things progress from a clogged and sluggish castor, to a broken base, damaged cylinder or broken mechanism.

Castor collects a lot of rubbish from the floor, that needs to be cleaned out to ensure free motion

A broken, or stuck castor makes it hard to move the chair. That puts undue stress on the star base because the castor will no longer move freely.

The shaft of the castor can break out of the base (sympton – castor dangling sideways). This in turn can lead to the base breaking. This creates a very unstable chair that, if not repaired immediately can lead to personal injury.

An immobile base puts stress on the tilt mechanism underneath the seat. In the high-end office chairs, this may be cast iron, but more commonly, it is mild-steel, spot-welded together. Motion on the seat, such as trying to move the chair around on its wheels, will now put stress on the mechanism, under the seat, eventually breaking it. Symptom – seat starts to wiggle from site to side, of flop sideways. Warning – personal injury is possible!

In the end the gas cylinders suffers damages as well and the mechanics of the whole chair collapses. BUT there is The Office Chair Repairers! Call/Whatsap Elmien on 0834145042

Don’t wait for the chair to collapse. When you sense the castors don’t move freely, either clean them of call us! We can also run through you chairs for a quick “service” – check that everything is in good order and all screws and bolts are still secure (you don’t want to lean on the arm and it come of now, do you? Ouch! That can be painful!)