sophiamarie: Re: Recliners

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

sophiamarie,

You asked me questions and I responded. I have not seen your response to my response to the questions so I decided to put up this thread. You seemed interested enough to ask these questions so I presumed you would be interested enough to let me know that you read them.

If not? Don't reply and in the future I will answer no more or your questions. Fair deal? Below is the reply I left in the thread you started about suggestions for recliners.

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On 8/4/2014 sophiamarie said:
BTW John: If you are so particular about your recliners, how long have you had yours?? I have read reviews where people have theirs for over 25 years and are still going strong. Sounds to me as though you have gone through many.....

Hi sophiamarie,

I have bought 4 recliners. One of them I returned because of manufacturing material failure. It was replaced with a different brand from the same furniture store here in our city. I still have the leather one that was the first one I bought probably in 1986. I used it until we moved into our very huge home as there was not enough room in our town home for 2 of them. I don't believe 4 chairs in 2 homes over close to 30 years is considered "to have gone through many", quite the opposite.

Right now we have 3 recliners, 2 in our 4 season patio room and 1 in our basement Home Entertainment Center, along with a Love Seat and Couch matching pair. I found out about what to look for underneath after I returned the one I mentioned above. The son of a hockey friend of mine repaired furniture for that store. He took me into his repair area and showed me what to look for when buying a recliner that I thought would fit my needs and comfort levels. Amazing how cheap some of these name brand chairs are made and he told me which generic brands were built the best.

In the many months I've spent in my "2nd home/hospital", at times I had to go to another floor to get the recliner that fit my needs. I knew most of the nurses on the Critical Care/Heart Floor, and they were aware that I knew which chairs worked best for me. Most of them were some type of leather/vinyl combo, but I always put a sheet(sometimes a blanket)over them to keep the covering sweat away from me. Those were also the ones with the buttons that controlled the recline of the chair and then locked the recline angle in place.

hckynut(john)

spindlegirl · ‎03-22-2014

Maybe she wasn't here to see your post? Nice of you to give the info.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

On 8/6/2014 spindlegirl said:
Maybe she wasn't here to see your post? Nice of you to give the info.

I read and responded to one of her posts in another thread late last night or earlier this morning, so I know she has signed on since I posted this thread. I mentioned this thread but I see she has not responded to it. She seemed very interested as I believe she is the one that started that whole thread.

Oh well, I tried. Thank you for your comment.

hckynut(john)

spindlegirl · ‎03-22-2014

You're welcome! Maybe she'll see this.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@hckynut Thanks for this post, John. We are going to look for a recliner next week so I was so glad to see this post. We bought one not that long ago and while it is comfortable to set in to watch tv, it is not comfortable for me to sleep in...so we are on the hunt again.

I need one that lays all the way back when it's my hips that are hurting and I also need one with plenty of padding when my shoulders are hurting and not too hard. Are any of yours like that?

After my open heart surgery, I was so miserable because the chair in my hospital room was way too hard and I could not get comfortable the whole time I was there. The bed, too, was very uncomfortable. I NEVER want to go through that again! Any info you can give me as to your favorites would be helpful. I sleep in a chair probably 75% of the time.