Customer Reviews

Mariner Rehab Shower Commode Chair - 18" Seat

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The chair was easy to put together. The foot rests are easy to adjust and/or remove, depending on the need. It is very sturdy. The arm rests can be lifted to allow for side to side transfer. For someone that needs a commode and shower chair, this combines both and is easy for either the patient or a caregiver to push. The brakes are very tight, making transfers safer but might be a bit difficult for someone with lessened hand strength (which would mean they would need assistance to lock them completely). My medically complex son uses this at least twice daily; I'm so glad we purchased this as it has made life easier for both of us.

My wife is a paraplegic, and she needs a shower commode chair to take care of business. My wife's previous shower chair lasted seven years. This one has caused problems since the first week we've got it.

The plastic hardware that holds the armrests do not hold against horizontal (to the side) force. My wife has scoleosus and leans to the right and busted the armrest the first time she used the chair. After having the warranty replace it four times in the first three weeks we gave up on the armrest and left it broken.

The crossbars are not connected and are free-floating. What this means is that the chair is wobbly as you roll around and wobbly as you transfer. Also because of this the seat has the bad habit of a corner popping off the frame.

The worst thing, however, and the most dangerous is the base of the frame where the threaded caster wheel screws in. The bolt on the caster wheel is made of stainless steel, and is nearly invincible. It screws into the aluminum frame into ALUMINUM threading! The threading on the left wheel stripped, and the wheel would constantly pop off, so I put a screw in from the side to hold it on a year ago. At this point it is getting more and more dangerous to use the wheelchair because the frame is wearing out where the wheel would screw in if the threading hadn't gone bad.

I voided the warranty by putting the screw in, but because of all of these problems I wouldn't want a new frame. This chair is the worst manufacturing that I could imagine. By the way, my wife weighs 255, which is five pounds heavier than her previous chair recommended, so we were talked into buying this chair which was supposed to handle up to 300 pounds. She has gained ten pounds or so since then, two years ago, but I wish we had never switched to this chair.

If you are not paraplegic, and falling out of your chair isn't a big deal, go ahead and buy this chair. If not, get a better built aluminum chair, or better yet get a steel one. They might weigh more, but it is worth it.

No longer do I have to trouble myself with actually walking over to the toilet to relieve myself. In fact, with this rolling commode on wheels I never have to actually go into a restroom! What a burden to drop. It's awesome. My daily events continue completely unabated regardless of what I ate for lunch. Bring on lunch at Anita's Mexican Restaurant!

I first saw the Mariner while in the hospital recovering from some self-inflicted throat and stomach trauma. Without going into too much detail, let's just say that I was watching Nathan's Hotdog eating competition where this Japanese guy crammed 189 hotdogs into his mouth. It was so awe inspiring that I felt that I must try it myself... hence the trip to the emergency room.

Anywhoo,

One of the patients down the hall was recovering from falling off her roof... or giving birth to the child that was screaming his head off in her room... I'm not sure which... In any event, she was using this device while in recovery. I thought to myself, "Self, all these years you've been a prisoner to your bodily functions and now, right here, is the key to your freedom. Self, don't be a sucker, get this rolling crap factory and start living!"

Freedom, real freedom, is dropping a deuce while rolling down hill with your arms raised over your head like the champion you are.

After a night of eating Indian and Mexican food I can go to the movie theater the next day without worrying about missing any of the action! It's quite liberating. Imagine pinching a loaf while simultaneously watching Julie and Julia and eating popcorn. Uh... I mean watching Rambo.... Imagine how many more bad guys Rambo would have killed if he had an M-60 mounted to the Mariner Commode Chair. I'm telling you that the strained look on his face is the result of constiptation.

For office managers: how much more productive will your employees be if they don't have to EVER leave their desks! I smell PROFIT...