We have antique wood chairs (with wood legs) for everyday use in our kitchen. The kitchen floor is soft pine with a painted stencil on it. We are looking for some sort of glide that we can put on the legs to keep them from marring/denting the floor. We have tried the felt stick on glides but they are not very durable. We then tried the hard plastic type nail in glide but these really mar/dent the floor.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Any suggestions for raising the existing dents w/o ruining the stenciling?
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They used to make nail in glides with carpet facing. Use the largest glide the leg will allow. Unfortunately, with a floor as soft as pine you may not be able to spread the weight out over a large enough area if the legs of your chairs are too small. You might need a rug under the table.
I have good success on my pine floors with the ~1" dia. Teflon-faced discs that slip on to 1/2" dia. 3-lobed collars that you nail to the bottom of the chair leg.
I get 'em at HD or Wal- Mart, if 'ya got either in smalltown . . .
Forrest
Wait - I had a package in the shop. They're called "Easy Sliders" p/n 04301, 30 mm discs with nail. They work fine on tile and carpeting, too, and rated at 400 lbs each.
http://www.magicsliders.com
You may want to get the kind with a built in swivel so the pad always stays flat on the floor.
We had a similiar problem. The sticky felt pads don't last long. The solution was felt pads with a hollow round nail-in thingy. You know.
The pads are hard nylon with a felt facing. On the end that goes into the chair leg is a short, thin-walled, steel tube about 1/4" in diameter. The edge of the tube is quite sharp. You just hold them in position and bang them in with a hammer. I was skeptical that they wouldn't hold up for long, but it's been four years now, and not one of the eight chairs that I did has lost one.
I got them from the Rockler Catalog.