Best High Weight Capacity Rocking Chairs Review 2023

The chair is made from pressure-treated pine, which looks great without any stain on it at all. Still, if you’re looking for something with a bit more color, as we mentioned, the company does offer a few different options on that front, or, if you’re a DIYer, you can buy the untreated version and sand and stain it yourself, which is what we recommend as it gives you complete freedom where the look and feel of the chair is concerned and guarantees that it will blend seamlessly with your home’s décor.

It’s surprisingly comfortable, but honestly, the best way to view this high weight capacity rocker chair is as a blank slate. If you want it to be more comfortable, you can make it so by adding whatever level of padding makes you happy. However, doing so will cover the natural beauty of the wood.

Here’s the bottom line:

This is a modestly priced, American made piece of furniture that looks great, supports a lot of user weight and will last you for years with proper care and maintenance.

The only real downside is that if you weigh close to the six-hundred-pound weight limit, the seat may not be wide or deep enough to provide a comfortable fit, but that’s only going to impact a small slice of the potential market.

For everyone else, this chair has no weaknesses. It’s amazing, and you’re going to love it. It’s well-deserving of top honors here, and we can’t recommend it highly enough.

As such, we’re a little skeptical of its use as a piece of indoor furniture. There are a couple of indoor use cases, but this is not the rocker you’re looking for if you want something you can use in your living room. It’s fine in a sun room, a game room, or on your screened-in porch, but in our view, this chair barely qualifies as a rocker for indoor use.  It’s much more at home on your patio or in your yard. Even so, we grudgingly agree that in some cases, you could use it inside too.

In addition to being good looking and durable, it’s also surprisingly comfortable. If you want to enhance that, it’s easy enough to add a seat and/or seatback pad, allowing you to customize the comfort level of the chair to your heart’s content.

Although the heavy duty rocker chair does not arrive at your door assembled, the process of putting it together is delightfully straightforward thanks to the high production quality that ensures all of the pieces fit together well, and the simple, clear instructions to guide you.

Expect to take about an hour all told, for unboxing, sorting and assembling, and if you don’t want to go through the trouble, you can pay for expert assembly. We personally don’t recommend it because it’s a pricey service, but some people might find value in it.

Although it’s only got a limited number of indoor uses, this is such a great chair that we can’t help but give it a solid recommendation. It’s a classic design; it’s “green” in that it’s made from recycled materials, and it’s offered by an American company that takes customer service seriously.

Best of all, it’s offered at a surprisingly modest price. We really like it, and we think you will too. It highly recommended, even if you might struggle to find a way to use it indoors.

Then, look at the seat dimensions. If you’re anywhere close to the upper weight limit supported by the chair, you’re extremely likely to need a wider seat than the one offered here. While you should always take careful measurements of yourself before buying a new piece of furniture, it’s especially important in this case as the chair is just not going to work well for significant segments of the big and tall market.

Also, note that this chair comes (mostly) assembled. It will likely take you longer to get the chair out of the box than it will to get it ready for first use.

We’ll be quick to admit; we love this chair more than its overall ranking would suggest. However, given the problems we referenced earlier and the fact that it’s offered by a totally unknown brand, we can only give it a provisional recommendation.

The only potential drawback here is that if you are very close to the chair’s upper weight limit, the 23” seat width may not be sufficient for you. For most potential buyers, however, it will be just fine.

The frame of the chair is rubberwood, which is hardy, durable, and attractive.  The upholstery is breathable, durable linen, which is stretched over generous amounts of block foam. There’s nothing magical about block foam, but it’s widely used as padding in most home furniture, and there’s enough of it present in the chair that it provides a comfortable seating experience. It won’t blow you away, but it won’t disappoint, either.

Even if it doesn’t, though, the chair itself is of sufficient quality that it’s well worth re-upholstering and re-padding as needed.

If you’re not especially brand-conscious and aesthetics are important to you, and if you can afford the rather hefty price, this is an excellent option to consider. In our view, there are a sufficient number of conditions in that sentence that we can’t give it a full-throated recommendation. Still, we do give it a provisional one.

A final note here:  While most of the furniture you can buy online arrives at your door unassembled, this one is the exception that proves the rule.  It comes ready to use.  Just take it out of the box, put it where you want it, and have a seat.  That’s fantastic and helps to take at least some of the sting out of its hefty price tag.

Our recommendation on that front is to spend the extra thirty bucks and get the cushion. Better to have it and not need it than the opposite case, and it makes the chair even more versatile.

Although the company markets this as an indoor/outdoor chair, like the Polywood Rocker, it only barely qualifies as an indoor piece of furniture. Nothing is stopping you from using it as such, but just as most people don’t have wrought iron furniture in their living rooms, metal furniture, in general, is a bit of a rarity. In any case, there are enough indoor use cases (sunroom, game room, screened-in porch) that it more or less qualifies as an indoor rocker.