It's getting to the stage where he might consider replacing it. Not so much because it's worn out, but because even in beds, there's still something exciting around the corner.
"Some of the new technology," he says, "is quite amazing."
The family business in the Napier CBD dates back almost a century to when Taylor's grandfather, English immigrant Sydney Taylor, teamed up in a furniture and second hand business on land now occupied by the Dickens St East carpark.
Syd Taylor sold up and joined his parents in the Havelock North General Store, and after the Depression years re-entered the Napier CBD with a new second-hand business opened in 1928, in Emerson St.
By the 1931 earthquake the business had moved within Emerson St to the site now occupied by the Manchester Unity building. Taylor's father, aged 3, was pushed under a table by a staff member to survive the collapse of the building, while his mother was on her way to the bank.
The 10.47am timing of the quake had a silver lining, for Mrs Taylor never made it to the bank, but safely out of the way of the falling shopfronts and other debris she held on to the cash, the £80 that would help get the family back into business.
It was in 1969 that Dave Taylor, worried by increasing rents, bought the premises of glass and paint specialists Bullivant and Meyrick in Dickens St for $25,000, and set about months of renovations to create the shop known to day as Taylor's Furniture, with add-on franchise Beds R Us, which the business was a founding member of about 25 years ago.
A fitter and turner by trade, Taylor joined the business in 1983, and November will mark 90 years since the opening in 1928.
Dave Taylor had an entrepreneurial approach, quickly noticing when the recliner rocker arrived the available products tended to come in just one size.
When seated, the feet should be on the ground, likewise when a person is lying, the feet should sit properly on the footrest. To overcome the problem he designed a bespoke range for the business.
"Perhaps as we were an older store we were pulling older customers," says his son. "No one else was doing it, so we thought, let's see what we can do."
About 1400 of the range have sold over the years, and still sell about 70 a year.
The company does deliveries, but they don't use contractors. Taylor does that himself, with quite some frequency. On top of supplying beds and other items of furniture and delivering them across the city, he lifts out a fair few items.
Many go to Christian Lovelink, which homed about 360 families last year.
"We do that all the time," he says. "About three times a week.
"This morning we took a dining room unit."
The need for a bit of rest come the weekend seems obvious.
