August 2017
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Are your chair arms and table edges going blow for blow?

Stop the battle.


Table edge and chair arm damage seem to be among the daily conversations at WallGoldfinger of late.
 
For years we have provided reverse knife edges for a great look, but also to help chair arms slide under the table edge without damaging the edge, or the chair. With the growing popularity of metal - both for chair arms and table edges - however, we're increasingly seeing damage.
 
As you can imagine when chair arm and table edge meet, the harder surface wins. A soft chair arm into a metal table edge has the potential to damage the chair arms. And a metal chair arm into a wooden table edge has a potential to damage the table edge.
 
So what do you do?
 
Here are a couple of simple suggestions.
  1. Choose an adjustable height chair, and lower it when you push your chair under the table. So often conference table chairs do adjust, but in our haste in today's fast-paced world, we don't take the time to adjust the chairs to fit the table height.
  2. Or if you know your team is just never going to take the time to do what we describe above, choose a chair that only adjusts to a maximum height that will still allow the arms to fit under the table, or choose a fixed height chair that's arms fit under the table.
  3. Choose a chair with shorter arm rests that support ones elbows but don't extend out far to reduce the potential for damage.
  4. Be gentle. Chair arms don't have to slam into table edges. That takes a little manpower.
  5. Choose a resin protector on your table edge. You've probably seen other companies come out with them of late. WallGoldfinger has been making them for a couple of years now. One particular edge is called the Reveal Edge (pictured at the top of this page and available in detail here), and we apply resin to other edge styles, including to our reconfigurable Summit tilt-top tables. This is resin applied at the bottom of the table edge, often below metal, to allow chair arms to ease under the metal without making contact to the metal and thus without damage.
  6. Choose a slightly rounded metal edge. WallGoldfinger additionally offers an aluminum pan frame with a gently rounded bottom edge called the Comfort Edge for both its Arbor multipurpose room tables and its Summit tilt-top conference tables. Again, you have to be reasonably gentle and have chair arms adjusted properly, but as compared to other edges, this rounded edge lets chairs slide under with much less potential for damage.
So there it is. Choose your chair carefully, use it properly, be gentle, and consider a resin protector or rounded metal edge for your table. Chair arm and table edge don't have to go blow for blow, round after round. They can peacefully co-exist.

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