BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...

Subject: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 08:03 PM

Grrrrr...

The danged thing has to be pulled back about 4 inches every 3 days... What will keep it from moving on the carpet short of screws or nails???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 08:13 PM

pass some of that over to me Bobster, I wanna smoke some of that stuff sound good. I could use it, maybe it will make my mood better :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Charmion
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 08:14 PM

There's a special type of furniture feet for carpeted surfaces, with velcro-like stuff or little plastic teeth on the bottom. They come in several sizes, including a type about the size of the palm of your hand that I believe is intended for heavy things like a chest of drawers. Two of those under the back corners of the recliner base could well do the trick.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 08:23 PM

Thanks, Charmion... I'll look for some of that... I was kinda thinking of those rubber carpet pad things???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 09:29 PM

Any halfway decent hardware store oughta have the thinks Charmion mentioned, and a few other things.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 11:10 PM

You mean to say that her Laz-e-Boy isn't lazy?

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 04 Apr 13 - 11:15 PM

Two words "crazy glue"

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Apr 13 - 05:16 AM

Iffn y'd quit jumpin in her lap while she's snoozin maybe it'd stay where it's put. (?)

"Chair creep" with recliners often happens when the counterbalance springs get a little weak so that when you recline, or sit back up, you hit the end stops hard enough to lift the weight off one end or the other and the feet don't come down exactly where the came up from. "Bouncing" back and forth between the up and down may also flex the structural parts so that they flip you farther each time, since the parts "relax" when the weight is off and spread one way or t'other when the load bears 'em down again.

This may be more frequent if the whole mechanism has gotten a little worn and it takes more effort to change positions than it should, since when you try a little harder you get a little farther on each hump.

Sometimes a careful inspection will find a few lag bolts or bolt/nut points that can be tightened, but in most recliners once things loosen up torquing them up won't be very permanent.

If the mechanism seems "stiff" a little grease wherever there's a shiny spot (that indicates something rubs) sometimes will smooth things out for a while; but of course you don't want a thin oil that might drip on the carpet, or more than a thin coat of wheel bearing grease or somethin' similarly "sticky" that might stay where you put it a little longer.

And the "carpet cups" that have little pointy feet on the bottom may help, although the real purpose of the little feet is so that whatever sits on top of them doesn't make a flat spot in the carpet under the cup. They're really intended to protect the carpet, not to anchor the furniture; but inventing new uses for stuff is the manly thing to do and nobody's gonna tell you it don't work if you act proud about it.

John

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 01:33 AM

Tell you what, Bobert. If you can't fix the chair and you maybe want to buy P-Vine a new chair, maybe we could take the old, migrating chair, tie one of our favorite people who start ridiculous political threads into it, and point it toward the nearest lake.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 05:30 AM

Ah but so many to choose from

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 05:53 AM

Don F has a good idea but it probably won't work for the most annoying ones. The chair only moves when you recline from sitting or sit up from reclining, and any large movement is an accumulation from the little flexes and end bumps. So the ones who can't see the possibility of ever considering a new position will just sit there and rot.

(Some of them may have already begun the process?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 08:06 AM

Something is rotten in the State of Mudcat?

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 09:03 AM

John 'n Don,

This is a brand new recliner...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 09:11 AM

Call the store.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 03:25 PM

Ah, me!   'Twas only a vain hope. . . .

As far as them just sitting there rotting, I think they tend to do that anyway.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 05:06 PM

Mine has a wooden cleat under the rug, nailed to the floor. Before that it was toothy cups, hard to get 'em JUST where ya want 'em. Cleat gudder.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 05:10 PM

Not sure I want to put holes in the carpet but this may be the only option???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 05:38 PM

Oh good! So it's not just me. I bought mine at the same time, I remember.
Mine heads towards the wall at the rate of 2 inches a day. I reckon if we could reverse the back like those seats in trains it would solve the problem. You'd only have to look at the wall one day in two.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: kendall
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 09:09 PM

My recliner moves sideways.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 11:11 PM

If'n they walks the walk, that's a nuisance. If'n they starts talkin' the talk, that's when you worry.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 06:18 AM

The typical case of "walking recliners" appears when the recliner is being forced to the end position, either to recline or to sit back up, at least according to the people who build and sell them.

The "impact" when the chair reaches the limits of motion is what flexes the chair structure and makes it jump.

In simpler terms, flexure of the chair structure, and shifts in weight when the postion is changed are what makes the thing move.

The remedy recommended is instruction in the "proper movement and adjustment" of the device, and adjustment of the position assumed by the seated person so as to make the movement more "fluid and even," avoiding the "bump" at the end, is sometimes recommended when a change of position is needed, and sometimes might even help.

This requires development of new habits by the principal user, to produce a proper "butt position" by the user between moves, and may require developing a "pre-move position" to a different attitude when a diffent degree of reclining is desired. Some modification of the tendency to simply "flip from one position to the next" is also recommended.

With consistent practice, modifications in "where the pocket is placed," changes in preparatory postioning of the applicable body weight to assist a change in postion, and more cautious control of the recline actuation to avoid the "end bump" can result in a significant reduction in the amount of "wander" that occurs where "improper technique" is used consistently.

Unfortunately for Bobert, he quite probably is well aware of the hazards associated with "You could do it better this way" or "it would not have the problem if you did it like this" when used in circumstances where you wish to survive to enjoy the company of one so advised, so the mandatory advisory of

"DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME"

is applicable (as I have learned from too-long experience, being a somewhat slow learner), so the only advice he might be able to use is:

"GO AHEAD AND NAIL THE D***D THING TO THE FLOOR!"

John

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: kendall
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 07:04 AM

I don't see it as a real problem. Bout once a week I simple relocate the thing.

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 07:31 AM

Mine creeps back when I sit in it, before I recline it, because I am too short for it.

Bobert, in another location I did not nail the cleat, but simply set down a chunk of plywood behind it that reached all the way to the wall. If that looks too awful of course you can always cover the plywood with matching carpet.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The P-Vine's Recliner is walking...
From: Gurney
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 04:52 PM

Mine oozes backward.