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(More customer reviews)Packing: Thin cardboard that will evaporate when wet. Check for damage to box! The bases are in a plastic bag and sit against the box wall, so be careful. Inside everything is reasonably packed in bubble wrap (not the cool "POP" kind but the thin "pip" kind).
Instructions: Pretty basic single sheet. Watch for the sticker that is somewhere (mine showed up on the floor). It is very small and very important. It reads: " Please pull out the sneath before using --->". Remember this.
Assembly: Amazingly simple. Only tool you need is included, unless you miss the "sneath". I think it's weird that the ring just sits on the base and the piston just slides in but hey that's why I'm not an engineer. The first stool took like 3 minutes and I was ready for sitting! I did not see the sticker about the "sneath". The stool would not raise up. The lever just flipped up and down. I thought, "Great. Another piece of &%$@". I took it apart. I looked at it. I looked at the instructions. I got a beer. I looked at the parts. I smoked a cigarette. I looked at the sheet again. I looked at the piston in the picture. I took out the other piston from the box. It looked different. It had a cap on it! I took off the cap! It matched the picture! I looked for the cap on the one I built. It was stuck inside the seat. I got a hammer. The cap fell out after some encouragement. I put the stool back together and voila! That thing shot right up!
Comfort: My butt hurt 3 seconds after I sat down. Seriously, what did they use for foam? Concrete? It swivels nice. I played with the raising and lowering for a long time...maybe too long. It was very fun. When getting off the stool the piston kicks up so you get a swift nudge in your bootay to get you up and get moving!
Specs: The seat heights adjusts from 24.5"-33.5" (less padding which is irrelevant). My counter top is 45.5" and I had a hard time finding a stool that height that didn't cost a bazillion dollars. At max height, these fit perfect. All the chrome is metal, except for the little ring at the base of the piston and the tip of the handle. They are plastic chrome. There is some pitting and rough bits on some of the metal chrome, but nothing too serious. I took off the ring at the base of the piston because it looked tacky and serves no purpose (I will update if it has a safety feature or something and I wind up crashing to the floor one night). The vinyl is embossed fake leather. I am telling everyone it's imported ostrich. It does have a chemically smell and there is a disturbing sticker underneath the seat that says something about formaldehyde. I'm sure it's safe.
Overall: For the price, these stools are what you want. You wouldn't be looking at them if you weren't cheap and chic. Buy them. Just don't let fat people sit on them. Oh, and remove the sneath!!
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