Ikea Snille is a very affordable and quite popular office / home office chair. It’s easy to assemble, pretty robust and really good looking. But the swivel variety, the one with the casters, has one pretty annoying design flow.
The thing is that the central column of the Snille chair has a screw-tread on it. You need to screw it down to the casters base to assemble and screw it more or less to adjust the seat height. This is what makes this chair simple, cheap and sturdy, but it also causes a problem. When you are approaching the chair from the right side on the say to day basis, approximately on the 40th—60th approach you are screwing the central column all the way down making seat height to be the lowest available one. So every two days or even every day you will need to unscrew the central column of the Snille to pull the seat up to the desirable level.
Fortunately, I found a solution for this problem.
1. Unscrew the central column completely.
2. Wrap the tip of the column with toilet paper. Put five—ten layers of toilet paper entirely covering the lower part of the screw-thread.
3. Screw down the central column. Applying some force could be needed on this stage.
4. Cut off the excess toilet pauper with a sharp knife.
5. Profit! Now the seat won’t be screwing down no matter which side you are approaching the chair to seat on it. However, it doesn’t turns Ikea Snille into the chair you can swivel on causally.
