The chair at the table is a high chair, or it is not. Look for a seat a child sits in, a tray or the place a tray clipped, straps, and legs that stand higher than a dining chair. If a joint already folds and you can close it with your hands, close it and measure the folded chair. If it does not close, write “will not fold” and measure it open. A booking that says “the chair” will be read as a dining chair. This note is one high chair.
A whole children’s room, with a cot, a bed, drawers and bags of toys, stays on the children’s-room clearance. Come back here when the object is one high chair and the open question is the fold, the tray and the straps. A dining table, and the chairs that belong to that table, stay on the dining-table guide. An adult armchair, including a recliner, stays on the armchair guide. A wheeled buggy is not this chair. That fold is the stroller note.
Fold it only where it already folds
Stand the chair where you can see the seat, the legs and the tray. Name four parts, even if they are still joined: the seat, the frame or the legs, the tray, and the straps. A photo of the tray alone is a photo of a tray. The legs are what make it stand, and the seat is what makes it a high chair.
Look at the joints before you lean on the chair. A hinge that already folds, and that you can close with your hands, can close. A catch you can press with a finger can release. Close the chair the way it already moves. If a leg locks open and the lock does not release by hand, stop. Write “leg locked open”. Do not hit the joint. Do not saw a tube to make the chair shorter. Do not cut a strap to get it off the seat.
If the chair folds, fold it and then look at the result. Some chairs fold flat. Some fold in half and stay thick. Measure the length, the width and the thickness after the fold you actually made. A fold you only imagined is not a measurement. If the chair springs back open when you let go, it is not folded. Write “will not stay folded” and measure it in the position it returns to.
If the chair will not fold, leave it open. Measure the height as it stands, the width across the legs or the tray, and the depth from the back of the seat to the front of the tray. Say which dimension is the tall one. Do not force a seized hinge because a doorway looks narrow. The measurement is the report. A bent tube is not a step on this page.
A wooden high chair with no hinge is still this chair. Write “no fold” and measure it open. Do not take the legs off because a folding chair would have been shorter. If the legs unscrew by hand and you can see they are meant to come off, you may unscrew them, bag them, and write “legs off, by hand”. If you need a tool you do not already have in your hand, or the joint is glued, leave the legs on and write “legs still on”.
The tray is part of the chair until it is not. A tray that lifts off when you press a catch you can reach, or that slides off a rail, comes off. Set it beside the frame and write “tray off”. If the tray is screwed on and the screws will not turn by hand, leave it and write “tray still on”. Do not saw the tray off the arms. A tray you are keeping moves out of the photograph of the pieces that leave. A tray that is leaving can sit with the frame, named as the tray.
Look on the tray before you call it empty. A cup, a spoon, a crumb, a small toy. If you are keeping them, they leave the photograph. If a cup is leaving, it is not the chair. Name it or take it out of the shot. Wipe only if you want the photo to show the tray rather than the meal. This page does not require a clean tray. It requires an honest one.
The straps stay with the seat unless they unclip. A buckle you can press with a finger opens. If you are sending the chair, you can leave the straps on and write “straps on”, or unclip them, bag them, and write “straps, separate”. If a buckle will not open, leave the strap and write “buckle shut”. Do not cut the webbing. A strap is not a reason to declare the chair folded.
A seat pad that lifts off lifts off. If it is tied with tapes you can undo by hand, undo them and set the pad beside the frame. Say “pad off”. If the pad is stitched on, or the tapes will not undo, leave it and write “pad still on”. Do not cut the stitches. A pad you are keeping moves out of the photograph. A pad that is leaving can sit with the frame.
Wheels or plastic feet change the carry. If a foot unscrews by hand and you are sending the chair, bag the feet and write “feet, separate”, or leave them on and say “feet still on”. If a wheel comes off a peg you can press, and you want it off, bag the wheel and write “wheel off”. If a wheel is missing, write “wheel missing”. Do not book a chair that stands level if it does not.
A chair that is clipped to a dining table is still this chair, and the table is still the table. If a strap or a bracket releases by hand, release it and move the chair clear of the tabletop. Write “unclipped from the table”. If it will not release, write “still fixed to the table” and do not unscrew the table to free the chair. The table, if it is leaving, follows the dining-table guide. If the table is staying, it stays. The chair leaves only when it is free, or you have said it is still fixed.
A booster cushion with no legs and no tray is not this high chair. If it is leaving, it is a separate line: “booster, no frame”. Do not call that cushion a high chair to save a sentence. A hook-on seat that hangs on a table edge, with no legs of its own, is also not this chair. If the hooks release by hand, release them and write “hook-on seat, off the table”. If they do not, write “hooks still on” and leave the table alone. This page does not open a booster guide.
The opening the chair has to pass
Walk to the doorway the folded or open chair has to pass. Open that door as far as it opens. The clear height and the clear width are the gap you can see, not the size of the door while it is shut. A rug in the opening is part of the width until you move the rug. Move what you are keeping, then measure if the gap changed.
Write the chair’s travelling height, width and depth, and the doorway’s clear height and clear width. Name the door. If the chair is still open because it would not fold, the height is the open height and the width is the width of the tray or the legs, whichever is wider. If a second doorway is tighter, measure that one and name it. A chair that leaves the kitchen and stops at the front door has not left.
If you have already been given a lift instruction, add it: which lift, and any note about a booking. If you have no lift note, write “no lift instruction yet”. Do not invent a lift size. This page does not keep a standard door size either. If you have no tape, write “not measured”. A chair you have not measured is not ready to describe as unable to pass, and it is not ready to describe as able to pass.
The general question of whether furniture should come apart is the dismantling guide. That page is a wardrobe, a bed frame, a table. A hinge on a high chair that already folds is not that job. Do not take the tubes apart because a frame guide talks about rails and bolts. If the only way out is to cut the chair, you are not following this page. The open measurement is the honest one.
A chair stored in a gap behind another piece is a location, not a reason to take that piece apart. If you can slide the chair out without moving the other piece, slide it, and only then fold it if it folds. Hold the frame. Do not drag it by a strap. If the chair catches, stop and look. Write what stopped it. If you cannot bring it out without moving a wardrobe or a cabinet that is staying, write “piece in the way” and “chair still in the gap”. Measure what you can see. Do not unscrew a wardrobe on this page to free a high chair.
What is not this chair
A dining chair that belongs with a table is part of that table’s job. Count it on the dining-table guide. Do not describe a set of dining chairs as one high chair because one of them is tall. Chairs that leave while the table stays are not this page either. This note will not open a guide for that set. If the object has a child’s seat, a tray and a tall frame, you are in the right place. If it is an ordinary chair from the table, you are not.
An armchair has arms, a back and a seat at adult height. A wingback, a swivel and a recliner stay on the armchair guide. Do not call a recliner a high chair because both have a catch. If the chair plugs in, you are on the wrong page.
A cot, a travel cot and a crib are not this chair. A cot is not given a page of its own here. If the object has a sleeping base and sides a child lies inside, say “cot” and stop following these steps. Do not drop a side and call the rest a high chair. Do not remove a cot mattress under these steps. A mattress that belongs to a cot is not the pad on this chair.
A camp bed is a folding bed, not a seat. The camp-bed note is that bed. Do not fold a camp bed and list it as the high chair.
A playpen, a baby gate and a play structure in the garden are not this chair. This page will not turn any of them into a high chair, and it does not open a page for them. If one of those is leaving, it is its own line, with its own name, or it stays inside the children’s-room list when the whole room is leaving.
A stroller is a wheeled frame a child rides in, not a chair that stands at a table. If the object has wheels, a handle and a fold that is meant to go flat, use the stroller note. A high chair that happens to have two small wheels on the back legs is still a high chair if the seat and the tray are the point. Say “high chair, wheels on the legs” so the two are not swapped.
A second high chair is a second fold and a second measurement. Name them: “chair in the kitchen” and “chair in the store”. Do not hide the second inside the word “chairs”.
A chair you are moving to another room to keep using is not a collection. This note is for the high chair that is leaving the property. If someone is taking it to a new address to keep using, say that to the person who is moving it. Do not use a disposal booking as a way to relocate a chair you still want.
If a tenancy list or a written note says the chair stays with the property, leave it off the booking. A fold and a dusty tray are not permission. The person who may release it writes that release. This page does not interpret a contract.
Whether another household could use the chair is a decision the children’s-room page already separates from the collection. This page does not add a test, a standard or a recall check. If you have decided the chair is leaving, the fold and the tray are the work. If you have not decided, do not book it.
The chair is not the table, even when you found it clipped there. Point at the table only to show that it is staying, or to show that it has its own line. Do not book “table and chair” as one object.
Photos of the chair and the opening
The picture is a sofa, an ordinary chair, a cabinet and shelving beside an apartment doorway. It does not show a high chair, a tray, a strap, a fold or a tall frame. Use it only as a reminder that grouped furniture beside a door is not this one chair. Your own photos still have to show the high chair and the opening.
Send these views.
- The chair where it sits, before you move it, so the room and anything it is clipped to are visible.
- The chair after you have brought it clear, or the same spot with the words “still fixed to the table” or “piece in the way” if you could not.
- The chair folded, or the chair open with “will not fold”, “no fold”, “will not stay folded” or “leg locked open”.
- The tray off, or the tray still on.
- The straps on, or the straps bagged, or a buckle that would not open.
- The pad off or still on, and any wheel or foot you removed.
- The doorway the chair has to pass, open as far as it goes, with things you are keeping moved aside.
Add the room name and the floor. Add a lift or loading note you have already been given. Add the height, width and depth you measured, and the clear opening of the door that limits the chair. Add whether the dining table is staying or leaving on its own line.
If you have no tape, write “not measured”. Do not invent the numbers. Take the photos in the light the room already has. If that light does not work, say so. A photo of a closed cupboard does not show the chair.
One line in the booking
You can include the chair in the furniture load once the fold is either done or honestly marked as not done, the tray is on or off and named, and the table is not pretending to be part of the chair. That page is the furniture leaving the room. It is not a request to saw a tube, and it is not a dining set taken apart.
If other household items are leaving in the same visit, and they are not furniture, say so as a separate line. The mixed pickup is that other load. Do not hide the high chair inside it, and do not hide a buggy, a cot or a bag of toys inside the chair.
Say, in one message:
- one high chair, and the room
- folded, will not fold, no fold, will not stay folded, or a leg locked open
- tray off, or tray still on
- straps on, straps separate, or a buckle shut
- pad off, or pad still on
- unclipped from the table, still fixed to the table, or not attached to a table
- the height, width and depth as it will travel, and the clear height and width of the doorway that limits it, naming that door
- table staying, or table leaving as its own line
- anything that is not this chair: a dining chair, an armchair, a cot, a stroller, a booster with no frame
Do not write “the chair” as the only words. Do not write a fold you did not make. Do not ask for the frame to be cut because the figure is larger than the gap. The figure is the report.
If the chair is still clipped to the table and you have not tried the catch, you are early. Look. If the catch will not move, the open measurement and the words “still fixed to the table” are the honest ones. Send those.
The dining-table page remains the table and its own chairs. The armchair page remains an adult chair. The children’s-room page remains the room. The stroller page remains the buggy. This page remains one high chair that does not leave undescribed.
The morning the chair leaves
Look at the fold again. If someone opened the chair overnight, fold it the same way, or change the note to the open measurement and photograph it again. Check the tray is still where you said it was. Check a cup you put back on the tray is off again. Check the straps are still on or still in the bag you named.
Open the door to the gap you measured. A box pushed into the opening changes the width. Move it before you treat the old figure as current. If the chair was clipped back onto the table, you do not have the same chair you photographed. Unclip it again, or write that it is fixed to the table once more.
Point at the seat, the frame, the tray and the straps as the high chair. Point at the dining table only as the table. Point at a stroller only if it has its own line. Leave a cot, an armchair and a dining chair out of the gesture.
Do not stand the open chair in the corridor the night before to save the kitchen. The corridor is not the gap you photographed, and a chair that springs open does not belong on a shared landing. If the only place it can wait is the room it is already in, leave it there, folded if it stays folded, with the table still clear of it.
When it has gone, look at the floor where it stood. A tray you meant to include is still a tray. A foot you unscrewed is still a foot if it is on the floor. The useful record is the sentence from the first look: one high chair, folded or honestly not folded, tray and straps accounted for, table left as a table, and the doorway’s clear opening written beside the chair’s own height.
