Preventing Chairs From Scratching Tile Floor

Remove the rubber tip from the chair leg.

Preventing chairs from scratching tile floor.

In this post i am going to tell you how to protect wood floors from rolling chairs. You can make your own felt pads and apply the felt to the chair leg using strong glue. Chair legs that have no protective covering on the bottom are prone to causing scuffs or marks on tile and even some with plastic pads may cause floor marks. Since a nickel is the same diameter as most metal chair legs it will prevent the hollow sharp metal chair leg from wearing through the protective rubber tip.

Felt material cut to the size of the bottom of the chair leg is the best thing to use on chair legs that will sit directly on wood floors. The best way to prevent scratches is to avoid moving the chair across the floor but that s impractical. Clean the bottoms of the legs with a. Put the rubber tip back on the chair leg.

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The felt is soft and will glide along the floor instead of causing friction which will put small scratches in the flooring. How to prevent rocking chairs from leaving scratch marks on floors yes finally a better alternative to felt pads that fall off and best office chair mats to protect your floors and carpets furniture pads round 2 self stick anti scratch chair floor. Be especially careful with chair glides since they are made to help furniture move on the floor. Make sure you read them.

In previous posts i talked about how to stop furniture from sliding on wood floors and how to protect wood floors from furniture legs. While most chair glides and furniture pads are sold as universal pads for all floor types some consideration is needed for the floor type you have. The previous chairs did the same but i bought a kit of self adhesive felt bits to stick on the ends of the legs.