It’s a Thick Seat Pad
After a few years of sitting on my chair every day, its built-in padding is getting a little worn. I’ve been musing either replacing the chair or getting a padded seat cover for a while. I saw many ads for the Purple pads, and decided on the Ultimate because of the size of my chair’s seat. That it’s quite thick also let me think it might elevate me a little, as I’m tall and even all the way up, and with “higher than normal” replacement wheels, I find the seat just a little lower than I’d like.<br /><br />It comes in a display package, requiring the simple installation of stuffing the rubber pad in a cloth sleeve. Then placing the pad on the seat allows it to be used immediately. As expected, it’s a bit taller and softer than sitting in the chair without the pad. I even had to lower my seat from its top setting to be a little more comfortable.<br /><br />It was immediately more comfortable than without. It’s a different feel than the solid foam padding of the chair, especially since that’s been so compressed. It is definately more comfortable, and I found I sat a little more upright than before.<br /><br />Two tiny knocks, and both are more about my chair than this pad.<br /><br />The first is that there’s nothing securing the pad within its cloth sleeve. The seat on my chair tips ever so slightly forward (or it can be adjusted to tip much more forward), so sitting on it and shuffling normally sometimes causes the pad to slide inside the sleeve. The sleeve has a textured bottom, which grabs nicely on the chair seat, but the pad moves a bit and has needed to be adjusted occasionally.<br /><br />The other is that the pad is thick, and so the arc on the back of the chair and the arms hit differently. I’m able to lift the arms a little more to make up for it, but the back of the chair doesn’t move enough to hit the lumbar in the right spot. Not unexpected, getting a very thick pad, but something to keep in mind.<br /><br />Overall, after a brief time with it, I’ve adjusted enough stuff, and gotten used to occasionally shifting the pad around, and appreciate my chair again.
Rating: 5 stars