Garden benches

Have you, like many people that buy these items from places had problems with sitting comfortably?

If so the reason behind this is angles, I have looked at this and found that if you make your own or know some one who can make it for you, ask them to increase the reclining angle of the back of the bench from 92 degrees to 115 degrees which would allow you to sit in comfort and not fidget as the back is happier.

When I made ours the visitors to our garden have said how nice it was to sit and relax in a seat which is pleasing to the eye and comfortable to sit in.

If you have an opinion on this feel free to express this and respond.
It might get companies who cater for people with disabilities to listen not assume.
We sit for as much time as we sleep if we are disabled.
Just a thought.

 

Could you perhaps post a few photo's from different angles of your seat?

Steve...

 

Why not contact a garden seat maker and explain your idea and experience.

For example this company: Garden Benches - Garden Benches - Garden Furniture/Patio Furniture - Sustainable Furniture | Teak Garden Benches Ethical & Certified Teak Garden Furniture | Garden Benches | Garden Seats

They claim to make benches for a wide range of prestigious clients so may well be very keen to adopt your idea - who knows maybe even pay you a commission.

a-a

p.s. I have no connection to this company, just came across them on the web.

 

Steve R,

As I am at work now I shall try to sort some pictures out and maybe if I have the plans put them up for you all to look over.

alex-adam,

I have tried to contact various companies to which make these items for general furniture and those with disabilities to no avail. :nono:
They just say it would cost to much to change something which until now only you have bothered to highlight.
Falling on deaf ears as the saying goes.
I shall keep trying even if they just keep coming back with sorry.
Someone will see sense in the end and say why didn't I think of that.

 

Well as requested here are some views of the product and plans for you to look over.Hope this helps with regard to the angle of the back rest.

 

It's quite "laid back"...nice one..!

Steve...

 

I do like the look of two of your benches, but do not think I would be able to work the third as I am not into stone.:WINK1:
Loverly curves on all of the benches, and have looked carfully at the two which I maybe able to incorperate in a third for our little place.
As for now the thought has passed onto a table which needs to seat at least ten people around as the family will grow to a minimum of this before grand kids.

May all our ideas help the industry to work with people like us and not against them just so they can make a coin.

If I were you I would sit back and let the world know we tried.:yess:

 

Hi, I'm researching this topic myself ahead of building a garden seat. You might find this website useful:
http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/lzone/seating.htm

 

When I occasionally suffer from lower back pain I avoid sitting in anything other than a chair with a near vertical back otherwise I can't get off it with assistance/excruciating pain. I will take a dining room chair into the garden for that reason, and also because they have a higher seat plus less depth of seat.

 

Why didn't you think of that?

I think you said you made your bench, why not make them for sale? Your market wouldn't be limited to just 'disabled' people. I'm not disabled and I hate off-the-shelf benches. I find them ridiculously uncomfortable. They force you sit either so that you're slumped forward, or actually using your back and neck muscles to hold you straight, and if you do try to sit back, in no time at all the top edge of the back rest starts digging in. Its the reason I've never actually bought a bench for any of my gardens past or present.

I could make my own bench, and probably will when I get round to it (been saying that for years now), but if someone was to make me one that is actually comfortable enough to sit on, I'd probably just save myself the effort and buy it instead.

So why don't you make them up? You could make a few and take them to the car boot sales at first. Also make them to order. If you don't have the time or the inclination, just get someone else to make them for you and sell them on.