Two chairs built for harder wear than a standard office seat: the Austin heavy duty task operator chair in black PU, and the Texas high back executive chair in black leather. Both are aimed at longer hours, shift patterns and larger users, the sort of use that loosens off a light chair from task and operator chairs inside a year. Check the stated user weight rating on each product page before you commit.
Choosing a heavy duty chair
Start with who is sitting in it and for how long. The Austin is the working chair: PU wipes clean, so it copes with a warehouse office, a workshop desk or a control room where hands are not always spotless. The Texas is the same thinking in a smarter shell, high backed and in leather, for a manager who wants something that suits a client meeting as well as a full day at the desk.
The parts that give up first on an ordinary chair under heavy use are the gas lift, the castors and the seat foam, roughly in that order. A chair sold as heavy duty is specified with that in mind, but it still needs the right floor under it: hard castors are for carpet and soft castors are for vinyl or laminate, and fitting them the wrong way round wrecks both. Where a chair is shared across shifts, agree a seat height rather than letting everyone crank it.
Other chairs worth comparing
For managers who want the look without the heavy duty spec, browse executive chairs and leather executive chairs, or the wider office chairs and seating. Anyone with a back complaint is usually better off in ergonomic and posture chairs. Standing benches and high counters want stools and draughtsman chairs, and replacement castors and gas lifts are in chair spares and parts.
Heavy duty seating delivered across Suffolk and Essex
Office Masters is run by Neil Andrew Office Solutions, a family firm based on Edison Close in Ipswich. Neil started out in his father Malcolm's business in the 1980s and relaunched under his own name in 2017, and we supply and install for warehouses, workshops and offices around Suffolk and Essex, Felixstowe, Colchester, Chelmsford and Bury St Edmunds included.
Chairs ship free to UK mainland addresses on standard delivery, usually inside five working days, and the next working day upgrade is there for when somebody is sitting on a broken chair today. Heavy duty chairs turn up part built and go together in minutes, though pre-build is available if you would rather not bother. For advice on which of the two suits a particular user, call 01473 464644.
