Padded (i.e. comfortable) chair rated for 24-hour use?

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 04:19

Anyone know of good PC chairs which are actually rated for 24-hour use?

The vast (vast!) majority of gaming chairs are only rated for 8 hours use which basically means (in my experience anyway) the padding in the seat will become like sheet metal after a few weeks/months of long-term usage.

24-hour chairs are usually classed as "operator chairs" but looking in that category usually results in a bunch of nasty-looking uncomfortable mesh chairs with zero padding.

Anyone got any experience?

BigBANGtheory · 30 Aug 2019 at 08:47

A pilots seat from an aircraft maybe?

What I would say is certain professional chairs are modular designed so that you can easily replace, restuff, refurbish parts like seat and back cushions. My Steelcase chair for example I could quite easily remove the padded parts and ask an upholsterer to replace the foam and or fabric pretty much anytime I want thus the chair will still be functional in 20yrs.

Psycho Sonny · 9 Sep 2019 at 16:51

cheap memory foam off ebay cut to size of seat?

PC777 · 9 Sep 2019 at 17:29

How long are you sitting in your chair for?

I got a real leather Noblechairs Hero around a month back and I've done a few 50-60 hour working weeks in it, plus gaming, not 24 hour but likely as much as anyone has sat in the same chair in a working environment. I just checked out a few of those so called 24 hour rated chairs and I can say without doubt the Hero is better than many of them. Some of those "24 hour" rated ones don't even have adjustable armrests and they have curved ones at that.

Some complain the Hero is too hard as it's built very durably with firm, though still comfortable padding, but if you're even slightly larger or taller it's a really great chair for working long hours in my opinion. I think it's actually improved my posture.