I suspect that the old IKEA “office” chair I’ve been using to wfh has contributed to a recurrence of a back problem, but there’s nowhere locally I can go to look at a decent replacement.

Anyone successfully found a good online office chair supplier? Work will contribute £100 towards one, so with physio running at £40 an hour I’m happy to double that budget 🙄

2ndhand.com, pick up a used proper office chair. I have a Giroflex G64 from them and it’s awesome.

What about a standing desk or other type of bum perch?

I swap between an IKEA Markus and an autonomous ergo stool

https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-stool

I bought one from https://pop-upoffice.co.uk. It’s a guy I half know from another forum who lost his job through Covid and has set up on his own. I spent a bit more than you but the chair is lovely.

Another vote here for 2ndhand.com – good prices and the used chair I bought from them a year or so ago was as good as brand new.

I can’t get full functionality of this site at the min but I posted a thread not long back on the back of a thread earlier in the year.

Usual companies are 2ndhnd and Corporatespec

Both told me though that supply is limited at the minute.

I ended up buying a Humanscale Freedom very pricey but I’m suffering with back issues at the minute. Cost me £550 where as this time last year would have been £300 ish – supply v demand !

It’s quite a firm chair, but I like that for longs days. The recline is brilliant so I can change my back position regularly and still have back and neck fully supported

Watching with interest – I’m staying in an apartment away from home through the week from now til the autumn and the sofas are rubbish – almost every major episode of back pain I’ve had in the past has come one whilst working away from home and siting on bad furniture at night.

Thinking of ordering something like a good supportive office chair – something you can sit back in a bit (like a chief executive) rather than a more upright operators chair his secretary would sit at.

The skip behind a bank used to be the best place to get that kind of thing

Another vote here for 2ndhand.com

I take it you mean http://www.2ndhnd.com and not a thrift store blog in Missoula, Montana. 🙂

https://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/News/Pages/BewareoftheChair!.aspx

I take it you mean http://www.2ndhnd.com and not a thrift store blog in Missoula, Montana. 🙂

Yes . . . 🙂

https://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/News/Pages/BewareoftheChair!.aspx

I half expect the chair is the real culprit that the ‘western diet’ got the blame for. Its not so much time spent sitting (I typically spend pretty much all of my working time standing)

The problem in the west is we chose chairs for sitting in preference to the floor – compared to somewhere like Japan where you might typically spend time sat of the floor every day all through your life As people here get older and frailer the comes a point where they possible haven’t got down on the floor and got back up again for for years, even decades. Inactivity in the older population is driven by a fear of falling rather than laziness –  and thats really a fear of not being able to get back up.

It makes ‘the ability to get up off the floor’ a useful measure of life expectancy

http://www.corporatespec.com We decided last Sunday, that we were both fed up with the hard dining chairs we were using in our home office. research led me to CorporateSpec, I mailed a query and at 6.00pm on Sunday night they responded within minutes, answered my questions. We ordered 2 refurbished / used chairs at more than half retail price.
They arrived perfectly packaged on Tuesday morning via DHL.
Absolutely no problem with them, the chairs are mark and scratch free, the only way you can tell they’ve been used is the yellow casters have a bit of dirt but no wear on them. I suspect looking at them they’ve been used on grey carpet tiles!!
So, no issues for us. Two good looking chairs and a load of unused cash, what’s there not to like!!

I got two good condition Herman Miller Aeron (B size) chairs before lockdown.

These are known as the programmers chair, for good reason – check reviews.

Both 2nd hand, one for £200 (eBay) and one £250 (FB market place). Prices now are £300+.

If you can find a place to try one, you may never go back.

See what I did there ?.

Thanks for the suggestions, will be researching later tonight.

Thinking of ordering something like a good supportive office chair – something you can sit back in a bit (like a chief executive) rather than a more upright operators chair his secretary would sit at.

I won’t ask how you spend your evenings while working away from home, but I’m thinking gentlemen’s special interest movies may feature….”Come into my office Miss Jones, and take something down….”