The Brooklyn, electric tilt in space with powered reclining chair, offering a mobile porter chair with an easy to use electric recline position. This chair allows the carer or user to electrically recline the chair achieving the tilt in space position with high leg elevation, whilst the back is fixed as the chair tilts, offering comfort and support. The Brooklyn has an optional battery operated movement, which allows the chair to remain independent from the mains power to enable you to move the chair to various locations.
The chair comes with a choice of various removable back cushions and interchangeable seat cushions for posture and pressure care management. The new design allows the leg rest to be fully supported by the memory foam chaise cover.
Care features:
The Brooklyn comes with all the features of our successful healthcare chairs but, with the added advantage of an electric, single tilt in space recline which can be controlled from a handset or with an option of a button on the chair wing. The advanced design of the Brooklyn solves the challenge of continual changing care demands, allowing carers to:
- Adapt the Brooklyn for different posture needs
- Six different interchangeable waterfall or lateral back styles
- Support different posture requirements and positions with alternative headrests and pillows
- Manage specific comfort and pressure management needs with interchangeable seat cushions
- A range of specialist pressure care materials for seat cushions
- Control infections by choosing from our range of healthcare grade fabrics
- Maintain the highest hygiene standards with quick change covers and replacement cushions
- Purchase replacement or new support cushions as needed to extend the use of the Brooklyn
Design features:
- The Push Handle comes with rubber grips and a hook for the handset controller
- The single Tilt in Space recline electric controlled by handset or upgrade to a button controller in the wing of the chair
- Separate waterfall back cushions
- Back cushions can be removed and replaced
- The seat depth can be adjusted with 1" or 2" adjuster pads that fit behind the back cushions
- Choose internal seat cushions from a range of pressure care management solutions
The chair is upholstered in a vapour permeable multi-way stretch fabric as standard (shown here in Panvelle, this is an optional fabric upgrade), to aid pressure care. The fabric is washable at 95°C and available in a range of colours. The leg rest is upholstered in a deep memory foam cover for comfort when in a reclined position. The cover can easily be removed for cleaning. A sliding footplate comes as standard to support easy portering from room to room, there is also the optional extra of a height adjustable foot rest. The Brooklyn comes with four heavy duty lockable castors.
Upholstery :
Many colours to choose from, please select. We can have the chair upholstered in contrasting colours for inner and outer chair, patterned or plain.
Specification:
Brooklyn medium 1
- Seat Height: 18.5” (469mm)
- Seat Width: 16.5” (419mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Brooklyn medium 2
- Seat Height: 18.5” (469mm)
- Seat Width: 18.5” (469mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Brooklyn medium 3
- Seat Height: 18.5” (469mm)
- Seat Width: 20.5” (520mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Brooklyn large 1
- Seat Height: 20.5” (520mm)
- Seat Width: 16.5” (419mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Brooklyn large 2
- Seat Height: 20.5” (520mm)
- Seat Width: 18.5” (469mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Brooklyn large 3
- Seat Height: 20.5” (520mm)
- Seat Width: 20.5” (520mm)
- Seat Depth: 20” (508mm)
Optional Delivery information:
Standard Delivery: FREE for all orders.
Optional Engineered delivery and set up service is available for £150.00 ex VAT, you will benefit from a nationwide network of engineers to support warranties with fast service at your home: no need to ship your items back to us for repair. For further information, Click Here or call us on 08006 123454.
Once delivered, the engineer will assemble/install your product, provide you with a full demonstration and answer any questions or queries you may have, all packaging will be removed.
| Product Code | Brooklyn17 |
| Manufacturer | Repose Furniture |
| Condition | New |
VAT relief on products and services for disabled people
VAT is a tax that you pay as a consumer when you buy goods and services in the European Union (EU), including the United Kingdom. In the UK the standard rate for VAT is 20 per cent.
Disabled people don't have to pay VAT when they buy equipment that has been designed solely for disabled people, or on the adaptation of equipment so they can use it.
Also, VAT is not charged on certain services provided to disabled people, including some building work to adapt a disabled person's home and the hire of disability equipment like wheelchairs.
Goods and services on which you don't have to pay VAT are often referred to as 'zero-rated' or 'eligible for VAT relief'. In other words, the rate of VAT that is charged on them is zero.
The rules about VAT reliefs for disabled people are complex. Not everything that is supplied to disabled people is zero-rated for VAT.
Who is eligible for VAT relief
VAT law states that you must be 'chronically sick or disabled' to qualify for VAT relief.
A person is 'chronically sick or disabled' if they:
- Have a physical or mental impairment that has a long-term and severe effect on their ability to carry out everyday activities
- Have a condition that doctors treat as a chronic sickness (like diabetes, for example) or are terminally ill
A person with a temporary injury like a broken leg would not qualify, nor would a frail older person who was otherwise well and non-disabled.
A product or service must also be supplied for the 'personal or domestic use' of a chronically sick or disabled person to qualify for zero-rating. Things not covered by this include:
- Products and services used for business purposes
- Products made widely available for a group of people to use
- Products and services supplied to people who are staying or living in a hospital or nursing home, as part of their medical or surgical treatment or with any form of care
Products that are eligible for VAT relief
Some examples of products that are zero-rated for VAT are:
- Wheelchairs
- Some medical and surgical appliances - like artificial limbs, for example electrically or mechanically adjustable beds chair or stair lifts
- Computer software or hardware designed specifically for disabled people
- Gadgets and devices that are designed solely to make everyday tasks easier for disabled people, like kettle tippers vehicles that have been adapted for use by a disabled wheelchair or stretcher user
Services that are eligible for VAT relief
Services that are eligible for zero-rating include:
- The servicing, maintenance and installation of disability equipment
- Adaptation work on equipment or appliances so a disabled person can use them
- Some building alterations to a disabled person's home
- The hire of qualifying disability equipment
Motor vehicles
If you are a wheelchair or stretcher user, you should not have to pay VAT when you buy a motor vehicle that has been substantially and permanently adapted for your personal use. A wheelchair user is defined as anyone who has to use a wheelchair - powered or manual - in order to be mobile.
Any adaptation work that is done on an unadapted vehicle to make it suitable for a disabled person's condition, whether or not that person is a wheelchair user, is also eligible for zero-rating. However, there is no VAT relief on the purchase of an unadapted vehicle.
For more information, read the notice 'Motor vehicles for disabled people' on the HM Revenue & Customs website.
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Equipment How VAT reliefs work
Before you pay for any product or service, check that it qualifies for zero-rating and that the supplier is registered for VAT.
When you buy a zero-rated product or service, you may have to sign a form declaring that you have a chronic illness or disability and what it is. You must also declare that the product or service is for your own 'personal or domestic use'. The supplier should have copies of this form.
You can then buy the product or service at a price that excludes VAT. You don't have to pay VAT and then reclaim it from the government - it will be taken off the purchase price before you pay.
You can find an example of the declaration form in the 'VAT reliefs for disabled people' notice on the HM Revenue & Customs website.
Read the 'VAT reliefs for disabled people' notice on the HM Revenue & Customs website (opens new window)
More information
You can find out more about VAT reliefs for disabled people on the HM Revenue & Customs website. If you cannot find the answer to your questions there, you can call their Charities Helpline, which covers VAT reliefs for disabled people.
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