How To Protect Wood Floors From Metal Chair Legs
But if you re in a pinch and you don t have any invisible chair glides you can use tennis balls as an alternative.
How to protect wood floors from metal chair legs. Many wood and metal kitchen chairs have plastic pads or protective bumpers on the bottom of the legs to prevent scuffs and scratches. Protect your wood floors from metal stools. These pads can only be attached to table and chair legs made of wood but are less likely to become detached when a piece of furniture is moved frequently. For another added layer of hardwood floor protection chairs and furniture legs need to be made more floor friendly.
Covering chair legs to protect the floors. Chair glides are designed to help protect the flooring that the furniture is sitting on. Decide where to put your plastic floor glides. Felt floor protectors are a great maybe the best way to keep chair legs from scratching a hardwood floor but only if the felt stays on and hasn t picked up a lot of grit.
Unprotected furniture and chair legs can still grind grit and debris into your floor s finish. Over time these may wear down or even fall off. No floor is safe from metal chair legs not even a vinyl floor and if the floor is hardwood even a wood chair leg can dig deeply enough to cause scratches that warrant refinishing. Set the barstool on its legs to see the natural touch points with the ground and make note.
Use a box cutter to make a slit in the ball and pop your chair leg right in. Hot glue the glides to the metal chair legs. In addition to preventing scuffs and scrapes on the floor surface furniture gliders can also aid in rearranging heavy furniture. Hardwood flooring can be marked and scratched by the repetitive motion of chairs scrapping back and forth.
Greater concern for scratches and gouges comes from heavier pieces of furniture. On the occasions that you need additional seating around the house you can t beat a metal folding chair. Hardwood floors are easily scratched by chairs being pushed in and out from a dining room table. Whether the floor is laminate or hardwood you need to protect the floor s surface against damage from the bottoms of the chair legs which can have metal casters wood bottoms or plastic caps.
By placing glides on the bottom of the chairs the marking of the hard wood floor can be prevented. It ll protect your floor until you can find a real chair pad.