Finally started hanging Sheetrock, have decided to floor most of the house with 3-1/4″ Red Oak/3 coats Poly, but I can’t decide what to do in my home office 10′ x 13′, with L shaped 2 station counter/desk.
I am not Littleman 😉 (6′-3″ 300lbs) and I am concerned about my office chair damaging the floor. I dont want to use a mat, they look like heck, the flooring contractor does not do moisture cure and I am not crazy about tile, any suggestions??
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Do the oak with really good poly, like Bona Traffic. Get a chair with quality wheels for hardwood . Don't jerk the chair around when you sit on it.
DG/Builder
Put down your wood floor then place a mat underneath your chair. They make mats specifically for that purpose.
-Terry
And carpeting isn't being considered because....
Works well in my office.
hey Bigman,
I sell office furniture. I see what chairs do to floors every day. if you use a chair on the hardwoods it will eventually really mess it up. One thing I've seen, but not for several years is glass used as a chairmat. Not going to be cheap, I'd imagine you'd need 3/8" tempered, and a perfectly flat floor so you don't crack it. The instances I've seen it done, it's always been on carpet.
Just don't do what I saw once. cleated chairmat on hardwood. hundreds of little holes in the floor.
Any decent office supply shop should be able to get you a nice hard surface chairmat in any shapr or size you want.
Edited 3/2/2006 7:20 pm ET by deskguy
I hate to say it , but laminate flooring is pretty durable to office traffic. I don't like the stuff but some of it is ok and it is tough. Though the floating floor might flex too much with a "bigman" on an office chair.
Jeff
Carpet.
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Really, carpet works great.
I've put a 6' x 4' tight knit oriental type rug as a floormat (on top of the carpet) for under my chair. There is no holes, wear, damage whatsoever. Or either rug.
Oriental rugs are far more attractive than plastic floormats.
I ended up with a rug also, mainly because the wheels created a lot of noise and there is living space below my office. The chair still rolls fine and the rug kind of stabilizes it from wandering. Mike
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I'd do the hardwood and get a chair with soft wheels
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I should also have said that most of my chair manufacturers have a hard surface caster option. They have a dense rubber wheel instead of the plastic ones. But with a 300 + lb'er on them, they're still going to eat through that finish.
How about an old flymow hovering mower with a seat strapped to the top?
Another variable to pay attention to with that weight -I notice that some office chairs have four, five or six wheels. go fopr the six, that will spread the load
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Also look into large dia. wheels .
ROFL!!!! a hoverchair!!, I hate the mats (use them at work over carpet), carpet just gets destroyed, whats the hardest/toughest laminate out there??,
Stained Concrete
Another vote for carpet. I have laminate in my office right now and it looks worn. Any dirt on my boots gets ground in. At least carpet, or an area rug, you can tear out and replace.
My new office will be ready in a few months and it will have a commercial grade low pile carpet. Seems to be the best for me. (6', 290 lb myself)