Boss Office Products Be Well Medical Spa Stool with Back in Vinyl, Black

This is a great stool !! The cushion is super thick and soft, but not too soft. This stoolLooks very expensive and high quality. I’m very happy with this purchase.

I ordered this stool because I could not find a fixed height chair or stool the right height for me to sit at a table and work on my computer. I dreaded having to assemble this stool, but to my surprise no tools were required and it took only minutes to snap everything together. I'm happy and so are my wrists (that had been struggling to type on a too-high surface).

This is just what I was looking for since I don’t sit at desk for very long and it will slide under and out of the way. It is well made and has a thick cushion seat.

After assembly and a few hours of use, here is a summary of my observations. Installing the five wheels was a challenge but the rest was easy. This stool is tall - the seat is 21 inches off the floor at the lowest position, 27 inches at the highest. The seat cushion is firm and the back rest doesn’t give. Everything appears to be well built and nicely finished. It is comfortable enough for me, and I like its stability at the lower seat height positions.After a few more days use, the wheel squeaking become grating. I put 5-6 drops of oil in each wheel's pivot pin, in the leg end and the wheel end of the pin. That stopped the squeaking. Suggest applying grease if available or at least oil before attaching the wheelsIt took significant blows with a rubber mallet to seat the wheels into the legs, more so than other chair wheels I have installed.. I held a 3/4 inch wide board on edge in the groove between the wheels and rapped the board repeatedly to drive each wheel pin into place.The back is only slightly adjustable for positioning closer to or further from the seat cushion - about a negligible 3/4 inch, and there is no height adjustment. I measured the back at 10 inches high by 16 inches wide. It is easily removed and reattached. With the seat at its lowest setting, the top of the back is 33 inches above the floor. The back has no noticeable give, it is pretty rigid. Typical of stools, the seat and back do not tilt.I was / am surprised that the lowest position of the cushion isn’t a least a couple of inches less than 21 inches from the floor. That is as about as low as is comfortable for my long legs. My just over five foot tall helper’s toes just barely touched the floor at that setting. I suppose someone could lower the seat height by two inches by replacing the wheels with felt pads, but it certainly would not move around as easily.The high setting of 27 inches is as tall as our tallest bar stools’ seats. There is a very good reason that bar stools typically don’t have wheels. My experience was that it felt dangerous to try to sit on this stool at the higher settings because the stool wanted to roll away on my hard vinyl planking floor. Getting off presented the same difficulty. As others have pointed out, many stools have foot rests and this model does not. Trying to use the stool at the higher seat settings felt awkward anyway, and without a foot rest, even worse as my legs were dangling in the air.Okay, enough with the cons. On the pro side, I am happy with the stool for use in my small shop, where I prefer to do my tinkering and small project woodworking sitting down. I was using a standard sized, wheeled, office chair without arm rests. It was wide enough that I kept rolling into the shop vacuum, cabinets, etc. as I scooted around in my narrow shop. This stool is narrower, and I am now having fewer collisions.The wide wheel base and five wheels make for a stabile stool at the lower height settings. The firm seat cushion and back are comfortable enough for me. The extra seat height compared to the old chair (21 vs 19 inches) and the firm cushion makes it easier to get up. Sitting down on any wheeled chair or stool is potentially dangerous, so I was pleased to find that this stool seems to have enough weight and rolling resistance to stay put while I am in the process of sitting down. More so than the old chair, and way better than my smaller, lighter, mechanic-style roller seat.

Incredibly easy to put together. Perfect for my needs

Love it. Is serving its purpose.

Putting it together was fun and easy. Nice quality and works as described.Recommended

I have severe mobility problems and I can't 'stand' in the kitchen any more. But my kitchen is NOT wheelchair friendly (way too small and everything is too high up). I've worn out 2-3 rolling chairs -- particularly the hydraulics on anything small enough for the kitchen isn't heavy duty enough for *me*. ! - I like that it is chrome -- it is heavy duty and doesn't "creak" under me. 2 -- even at the lowest setting it's higher than most office chairs "high". 3 - the seat is larger than some -- which **for me** is good.OK -- discussion re: "reality" -- someone else mentioned this so be careful when you consider this. This chair **IS** fast. So either make danged sure you have hold of it when you sit down or roll it back against something when you sit down because it **could** go out from under you easily. Particularly if you are a short person !!! I have to really raise myself up way higher than normal to sit down on this.For *me* -- I'm so short I'm really handicapped by my own kitchen because even reaching into the sink can be torture. This chair -- at it's *lowest* setting -- makes it possible for me to do dishes and reach into the sink to wash something. **Because it is already at it's lowest setting** I truly don't have to give a fig about the hydraulic because at it's lowest setting it's FINE for me.None of the rolling chairs are at all good at being descriptive about how "high" they are - you can't tell if the measurement is from the bottom of the seat or the top (this one is from the top) -- but the seat is 3" of *very* stiff foam. This seat is not going to break down overnight.I am really very happy with this -- it's sturdy, it's height works well for me where I must use it. But I am **extremely** cautious how I sit down on it -- I make sure my behind is squarely ON the seat -- but I also make sure I'm not too far *back* or it could tip over!! For me, it works best to back the seat up to a cabinet and sit down with my back to the cabinet -- it ensures I don't go too far back, but it also ensures it doesn't roll out from under me.Sorry to be so verbose - -but I agonized over this decision for weeks because I felt like none of the descriptions were adequate -- and I read **every** review and tried to apply them to what "reality" would be to have this in my home. If you are tall -- it's going to be a whole different story. If you are wanting to have it very high - I can't tell you a thing. But given the million office chairs I've had in my life this is sturdy and well constructed and the cost was reasonable.