The best way to prevent scratches is to avoid moving the chair across the floor but that s impractical.
Preventing chairs from scratching tile floor.
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In previous posts i talked about how to stop furniture from sliding on wood floors and how to protect wood floors from furniture legs.
Be especially careful with chair glides since they are made to help furniture move on the floor.
In this post i am going to tell you how to protect wood floors from rolling chairs.
Remove the rubber tip from the chair leg.
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.
Put the rubber tip back on the chair leg.
Common materials to make chair glides and furniture pads are felt rubber cork plastic and metal.
You can make your own felt pads and apply the felt to the chair leg using strong glue.
Clean the bottoms of the legs with a.
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The wooden legs of my new chairs make a horrid scraping noise on the stone floor of my kitchen.
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.
If you would like to know how to protect wood floors from casters keep reading.
The next best solution is to use something to separate the chair legs from the floor.
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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.
The felt is soft and will glide along the floor instead of causing friction which will put small scratches in the flooring.