Balt’s ErgoEx ergonomic office chair is packed with features normally only found on chairs costing double the price.

It includes as standard

• Tilt and height adjustable seat with contoured foam padding
• A good sized mesh back with tilt adjustment
• Tension adjustment for user comfort
• Seat depth adjustment for user leg comfort
• Arms that adjust up and down, back and forth and side to side
• Adjustable lumbar support for healthy posture
• Tilt and height adjustable headrest
• 5 star spider chromed base with twin wheel casters

Really the one disappointing thing about the chair is the limited warranty, here’s where you can find the Balt ErgoEx review and rating.

I’ve just added a new review of the Steelcase Think® chair.

Steelcase has been quietly adding some great ergonomic office chairs to its seating range over the last few years and the Think® is a worthy addition.

Hopefully your office chair allows you to adjust the chair’s tension to match with your body weight.

When you’ve got things correctly you should be able to lean back in to your chair comfortably without applying excessive pressure or conversely feeling as though you’re suddenly sinking right back with little or no resistance.

So what’s involved in setting it up? With most office chairs you’ll find a knurled knob midway under the seat pad. Normally, you turn it clockwise to increase the tension and stiffen resistance or anti-clockwise to reduce the resistance.

Just experiment until you get it set to your liking.

Some more sophisticated ergonomic office chairs have a crank control on the side of the chair that actually makes it easier to adjust.

Tilt tension is just 1 of the 5 essential features that an office chair needs, to discover the other 4 see this article on what you need an ergonomic office chair to include.

It remains a fact of life that more often than not in life you get what you pay for and office chairs are no exception.

When you go into your local office supplies warehouse, chances are that you’ll be bombarded with cheap chairs, usually leather, full of sleek promises and features. It almost seems too good to be true and more often than not - it is.

Here’s a at rule of thumb to apply to any office chair you’re tempted to buy.

Ask the question. How long is it guaranteed for?

If it’s 2 years or less, walk on by. Most reputable suppliers offer 5 years at least, the top suppliers frequently will give you 12 years warranty. There’s a reason for this they’re confident that the product will last that long, imagine what it would cost them in returns if the product doesn’t perform.

Good quality office chairs are priced in hundreds of dollars, rather than tens of dollars because quality components aren’t cheap.

Here are a couple of good articles on what makes a quality office chair and how to buy an ergonomic office chair before you jump in and part with your hard earned cash.

The star of the show for Allsteel at NEOCON next week, will be its new ergonomic office chair model - Acuity™

The chair is aimed at the quality end of the office seating market and is intended to compete with established products like Miller’s Aeron, Steelcase’s Leap and the Humanscale Freedom.

The Acuity™ looks a class act and I plan to add a review of it shortly.