Katherine B. Crosett N o sooner have your chairs been delivered and set up at church when somebody finds an excuse to rearrange the furniture. You just unhook the ganging links of the chairs, stack them, then store them till you're ready to move them to a new location. Stacking Tips Metal-framed chairs can be safely stacked in piles of 8 to 10 chairs or about 7 feet high. The manufacturers and church members we spoke to agreed that chairs can be stacked up to 10 high, though you should go with fewer if you have racks under each chair or low door frames in your sanctuary or storage closets. Wood-framed chairs can be stacked in piles of 6 chairs.
Some manufacturers offer stacking racks or buttons on the chair frames.
These prevent the chairs from being stacked too tightly. In addition, they help preserve chair upholstery fabric and keep chair frames in alignment. When time is of the essence, the fastest way to store chairs is to set them atop tables. At the end of the day, children at the daycare center run by Bethel Lutheran Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas, set their lightweight plastic chairs on top of the tables so that the floor can be cleaned. The next morning, the children set the chairs back in place at their tables.