Electric ReclinersElectric Recliners

How electric recliners differ

An electric recliner uses a motor rather than your own weight, so it goes back at the touch of a button and stops wherever you let go. That matters more than it sounds. A manual recliner needs a firm push through the back of the seat, and for anyone with a bad shoulder, a bad back, reduced grip, or simply less strength than they used to have, that push is the reason a manual one ends up never being used.

The practical requirements are a socket within reach of where the sofa is going, and clearance behind the seat for the back to travel into. Both are easier to sort out before delivery day than after.

The trade-off against a manual recliner is that there is a motor, a transformer and a handset, which is more to go wrong than a lever - and the price sits higher for the same size of sofa. In exchange you get positions a manual mechanism cannot hold, and a seat anyone in the house can operate.

Delivered free to most of the UK and paid for in cash or by bank transfer when it arrives. Most of the UK gets delivery in 2–4 days, and Devon, Cornwall, the Aberdeen area and the north of Scotland in 5–7 days. We deliver Tuesday to Sunday, not on Mondays. The 1-year guarantee covers structural faults in the frame and springs. Measure the doorway first with the size guide: powered frames carry their mechanism inside the seat and do not pack down as small as you might expect.