Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.36'' x 48'' Carpet Chair Mat with Lip [MAT-CM11113FD-GG] Quantity: Shipping: Request a quoteRelated Items45'' x 53'' Carpet Chair Mat with Lip [MAT...About This ProductThis clear vinyl, commercial grade chair mat is designed to help your chair roll easily on carpeted floors and prevent carpet wear caused by chair casters. It features a scuff and slip resistant top surface for durability and safety. The underside has a gripper back to firmly anchor the chair mat on low pile carpet, protecting your carpet from spills and damage. The mat includes a protruding lip to protect the carpet under the desk and allow the chair to roll even when it's all the way under the desk.FeaturesClear Vinyl Chair MatCommercial Grade MatDesigned for Low Pile CarpetScuff and Slip Resistant Textured Top SurfaceStudded Gripper BackStraight EdgeLip Size: 19''W x 9.75''LLimited Lifetime WarrantyWarranty: Product WarrantyProduct SpecsWidth: 36''WHeight: 0.079''HDepth: 37.25'' - 47.125''DWeight: 8 lbs.
Recently ViewedYou May Also Like... » Luxe Leather Executive Chair - White --- Please Select --- Chair Mat 36x48 (+$55) Chair Mat 45x53 (+$65) The Luxe Leather Executive Chair is a high-back design with built in lumbar support for ultimate style and comfort for your luxurious office. Eachs chair has a coat rack on the back of the chair. The chairs are highly adjustable and come with chrome arms and a heavy duty chrome base with dual wheel casters for easy movement. The tilt tension, swivel, and synchro tilt will allow adjustability and added comfort to meet your needs white at your desk. Coat Rack on Back Built in Lumbar Support 2-to-1 Locking Synchro Tilt Adjustment Tilt tension Adjustment Knob Pneumatic Seat Height Adjustment Heavy Duty Chrome Base Enter the code in the box below: Please leave a message My wife's office has solid hickory hardwood floors, and I'd like to protect the floor from her rolling office chair.
What can be done to protect the floor? Should I even be concerned about the chair damaging the floor? In two old homes now I've shredded the wood floor under my chair, monster splinters eventually emerging. I work at home in semi-rural New Hampshire. I think they're very old pine floors, so softwood. I plan to try Shepherd Brand Urethane Casters after putty and repainting. From the manufacturer's site, "Nylon tread for carpeting, and urethane tread for hard floors." Much buzz on Amazon about these. Edit: After months with the new casters there are no new paint flakes or splinters. I haven't repainted the floor yet, but it appears these casters will do the trick. Replacing your chair's casters can help. Most chairs come with hard nylon casters, but softer rubber/polyurethane/neoprene casters are less likely to scratch or damage your floor. I live in a house full of wood floors (engineered hardwood). If the floors are kept clean and the wheels of the chair also are kept clean, every little damage will ever happen to your floors.
If your floors are perfectly smooth and any imperfection will bother you, I do recommend either a low pile or woven rug under the desk and chair. I say this, because if some sand or small rock gets between the chair caster and the floor it will mark it. You can always fill the small imperfection but a rug is a small insurance plan for that area of floor. I was initially worried about this, but I've had my office chair on hardwood for about 2 years without issue, with generally at least an hour to 4 hours use every day (and more when I occasionally work from home). It's a pretty typical chair with fairly hard plastic castors. I would either get some sort of "mat" or area rug. There are some plastic mats that are sold without the plastic spikes. There are also 'floating vinyls" or fiber floors that come in rolls (often at Home Depot) and they can just go on top of floor without adhesive. You can cut them to size. Usually, their weight holds them down. I would not use a plastic mat, as I did because a tiny piece of something got under it and I must have rolled over it a dozen times and it left a bunch of annoying marks in my beautiful hardwood floor.
I would use some sort of sacrificial mat, either a pre-made mat or a section of some laminate flooring material to cover the area that you will be using the chair. Of course I have bamboo floors so it blends in. The trouble is, no matter what you put down there, if it's a sunny room, your floor will age unevenly. I had one of those clear plastic mats down and when I removed it after a couple of years, a huge light spot was left behind. I have recently refinished the floor in this room and I'm reluctant to put anything down on the new floor--though maybe with the modern tools & chemicals it's fade-proof I don't know. But I think I have to expect some change of color over time. It's a very sunny room. Kept hoping I'd find something like casters with felt coated wheels. I had no luck. Maybe I should invent such a thing, Lol. Bet they'd sell well. My office chair is also terribly loud rolling across the floor. If you're really really into a solution here, you want a Flexible Glass Chair Mat.
It's that: glass you lay on the floor to protect it. Just Google that term. The first results lead to solutions. The chair mat is the way to go. You have to use roofing tacks hammered into the corners to hold it down, otherwise it will slide around and be annoying. Getting a mat is a good idea. If you don't do this what will happen is that dirt and sand particles adhere to the wheels of the chair and grind ruts in the wood creating bare spots. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count). Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead? do we need chairmats any way? carpeting is thinner today than in the past. Combine that fact with currently available "carpet caster" on office chairs and one can see why many offices initially choose to work without chairmats.
Though it is possible to move around an office area or work cell without a chairmat, there are two reasons that make it unwise: 1. Although carpet is commonly dense enough to allow a rolling chair to move, the carpet fibers and backing were not designed to handle the extreme pressure generatedThe downward force of a chair wheel or caster is nearly 100 times greater than a normal footstep. loose fibers and its backing will break down, thus shortening the life expectancy of the carpet. 2. Use of chairmats can significantly reduce lower back and joint strain because casters move more easily over hard surfaces. The typical office employee moves his or her chair over 250 times a day. These movements may be just inches, but they require up to twice as much effort without a chairmat. Given the frequency of these movements, an office without chairmats is more susceptible to Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). chairmats are an ergonomic choice to reduce the likelihood of RSI
and lower back fatigue. I need a beveled edged or a straight edged chairmat? It's a good question. the chairmat will not be covering the actual area where the user's chair will be rolling, then a beveled edged chairmat is appropriate to make it that much easier to roll on and off the mat. will be covering every where the user will roll, the beveled edge When on of the thicker mats, such as the Big Boss or the Top Brass are used, the same guidelines apply. However, if it is felt that people moving around the desk and crossing over the chairmat may "find" the edge of the mat, then a beveled edge is recommended to protect against tripping more than for the person rolling his or her chair on the mat. the appropriate Lifetime Chairmat Start with what kind of flooring or carpeting over which each chairmat will be used. Refer to the chart above which indicated the right Lifetime Chairmat thickness and style for the many different situations
that exist in offices and homes where chairmats may be needed. Use a measuring tape and graph paper to sketch out the "optimum" size and shape chairmat for each location. to the standard shapes and sizes to see if one or another will satisfy each of the chairmats required. The part number of each Lifetime Chairmat, a detailed description and its price (including delivery to anywhere in the Continental USA) is listed on the web page or pages dedicated to that style or thickness. there is no appropriate size or shaped mat among the standard offerings, refer to the Custom Cut Mats section of that Lifetime Chairmat information size of the chairmat needing to be Custom Cut by multiplying its over all length by its overall width and dividing the result by 144 (the number of inches in a square foot). The result will be the number of square feet of Lifetime Chairmat material required to make that To determine the price
of that Custom Cut chairmat, multiply the number of square feet of material needed by the indicate Price per SF (square foot). number will be the Price for that one mat delivered to anywhere in costs may effect the overall price for multiple mat orders. please submit the inventory of mats being priced to The Mat King via e-mail or Fax 1-800-Mats-Fax (628-7329). e will be pleased to provide an itemized quotation with freight charges for the entire order listed are warranted to be free from defects in workmanship or material. Should a Lifetime vinyl chairmat break or crack under normal usage, the manufacturer will replace the chairmat with a like or similar product (or, at its option, refund the original purchase price) upon proof of purchase and upon return of a small piece of the defective mat to the factory with transportation charges prepaid by the customer to and from the factory. Colors are subject to normal action of exposure to sunlight and are therefore not covered by this