Are Your Office Chair Casters Giving You The Run Around?
If you are using your office chair on a smooth or hard surface like lino, hardwood or ceramic tiles you may be finding that you can’t control your chair properly and it seems to want to roll too freely.
It’s likely that your chair has got casters that are intended for use on carpets and so is moving much too freely on your smooth, friction free floor.
What you need is to replace the existing wheels with a set of hard floor casters, they’re typically rubber faced and so grip on smooth floors better.
You should contact your chair’s supplier and see if they stock the right casters, alternatively, you’ll find that you can probably get suitable casters from this online specialist.
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Great tip! The wrong casters can make a good chair completely unusable, and it’s such an easy problem to fix.
I work in a clinic (with Lino floor) assessing patients for wheelchairs and seating. It used to be great scooting from patient to desk, taking measurements, making notes etc. Now we have been told that we cannot have castors on our office chairs on lino floors – “It is against the law”!.
So we have to keep getting up, crouching down, back to the chair by the desk…
Is it really ‘Law’ or is this some health & safety advisor with nothing better to do? Are the ‘hard floor casters’ little wheels or hard pads that don’t actually slide that well on our no slip grade of safety flooring?
I’m not aware of any law that says you can’t use castors on a lino floor, sounds like a case of H&S gone barmy to me. However, in this age of the nanny state I’m no longer surprised at some of the new rules we’re subjected to.
I’d be inclined to ask those enforcing this ‘law’ for documentary proof, I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t have to wait a long time for an answer. Of course what you’ll more likely get is that as the rules are written so broadly it becomes that individual’s interpretation of the law.