Chairs
Living room chair
Type: CJG 2000
Bought in: 1994
The backrest was made longer for me.
A rehabilitation company has adjusted the shape of the backrest for me.
The chair is mechanically simple. In 2008, the gas spring for the back rest broke,
and I was able to replace it myself.
The bill (in dutch) is in my records.
In 2019 I still have this living room chair.
Car seat
This is my car seat, placed at the passenger side.
Brand of seat: ASS
Type: 603 with extra long back
Bought in: 1993
The company that installed the seat has lengthen the restraints for the headrest a lot,
to make it suitable for my length.
I have filled the space between the headrest and backrest and upholstered it with the
same fabric as the chair.
Someone made a different chassis for the chair, so the chair was lowered,
and I had more space for the height.
In the picture you see my car seat at the passenger side in a Nissan Micra.
The car seat is placed in this car without a frame. Because otherwise
I could not fit in it.
The original shape of the backrest was bad for my back.
First I tried to fix that with polyether foam, but that was very difficult.
The polyether foam was pressed in, when I sat on the seat, and that changed the shaped.
So I removed the polyether foam, and I used underlay to create the shape.
By using many layers of underlay, glued over each other, I was able to make a good shape,
which is okay for my back.
The bill (in dutch) is in my records.
In 2012 I bought a second special adapted car seat for the driver's seat.
The car seat is also of the brand ASS.
It is not a standard car seat, but this car seat was specially made for someone
with a particularly long backrest.
I could buy his car seat for a small amount.
I also adapted the shape of backrest of this car seat, so it supports
my back in a better way.
Garden chair
Brand: Hartman
Type: Ambassador Vario SL
I often take this garden chair with me, when I go to a doctor or a medical examination.
The back of the chair reaches the top of my shoulders, and is therefor far too short to let my head rest on it.
I changed the shape of the back. The back was curved, and I removed the curve as much as possible.
With a paint burner I gently warmed the plastic and added a weight of a few pounds to the backrest,
so that the shape changed slightly. I placed the paint burner in a clamp,
and after ten minutes the plastics began to soften.
I covered the parts that were not supposed to get hot with aluminium foil.
In 1993 I
decided to bring my own chair (in dutch)
along. The chair on the photo above is my second chair.
In 2018 I still have the Hartman plastic garden chair.
It weighs about 6 kg, which is a lot to carry for me.
So I decided to make a carrying belt to be able to carry the garden
chair myself if needed.
The carrying belt is somewhat elastic, so my walking movement is absorbed by the belt.
I extended this wooden garden chair:
As far as I know, there are no chairs with a backrest suitable for my length.
In the summer I sometimes sit outside, and sometimes I would like to rest my head,
so I have extended backrest.
When the chair is in the lying position, I let the back rest against a wall and place
a garden bench underneath it, to prevent the chair from falling backwards.
The part that I put on the backrest, is the seat of another wooden garden chair.
Last change to this page: June 2019
