Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Aug 02, 2010 8:51 pm A matter I feel is very important, especially when placing new furniture into rooms, moving house etc.... What is at the very bottom of your furniture? How may this impact upon your floorcoverings? Here are a few scenarios that I have often seen; (1) People have a house with lots of floorboards, so they have black felt under all their chairs and lounges etc. They move to a new home with lovely carpets! Few months later they have the carpets cleaned. Furniture is put back onto carpets before they have dried, Result = black dye stains all over the carpets! (2) Others have Steel pipeline beds on a laminate floor. Plastic plugs in the bottom of legs are worn through exposing edge of steel tubes. Result = bed is moved and there are big gouges in surface of flooring. (3) Others have thick plush pile carpet with thick soft underlay and lots of solid heavy timber furniture. Result = movement of furniture and compression of carpet forms a lot of rucks and the carpets are ultimately wrecked. (4) Others have tiled floors in bedroom (God knows why?) The bed has castor wheels and every time the happy couple have a bit of fun-n-games, they risk rolling into the plate glass windows! (5) A heavy lounge suite has chunky timber feet with plastic nail in feet. The plastic disc section gets broken by the removalists on the way to your brand new home with floorboards, exposing a nail head. It is dragged across the new floor, and there's a big gouge in the floor. OK you get the idea.... Every piece of furniture should have an appropriate interface between it and the floor/floorcovering it is placed on. And care should be taken whenever furniture is being re-located. I've seen all of these scenarios. Note also that some types of protectors can break or become contaminated, causing probs. So it pays to check these things every so often. There are many types of stick on/screw on/and other products that you can fit to the legs of your furniture. I'm suggesting that we pay attention to what we have, and whether they are suitable for the floors you have. Simple measures such as this can save you some big headaches! Ash. Re: Preventing damage to floorcoverings 3Aug 04, 2010 8:19 pm Hi Sweetime, Very heavy furniture can be difficult to move around to facilitate cleaning and other stuff. It also places a lot of load on the footprint of the furniture on the floorcoverings. The best thing is to make the leg contact surface larger if possible, and to have a curved radius on the edge of the feet. Here's a good example, of my own lounges. Bought these lounges a few years ago. Solid jarrah frames and good size, so they are pretty heavy, especially the 3.5 seater. They have these large turned legs, which are actually a stained softwood. While we were having them made, I checked about the legs. They are about 150mm round but have these stupid piddly little nail in plastic discs in the bottom. The plastic disc is about 18mm round with a nail that attaches it to the timber feet. So that is a lot of weight that is supposedly going to be supported by these little plastic discs. I'm thinking they will bury into the carpet and make it difficult to move from its normal position. So I got a bunch of these larger nylon discs. They are about 60mm round and have curved edges. They have stick on backings and also a hole to accept a screw. The curved edge makes it slide easily across the carpet, (even if it is heavy) and the larger surface area make it spread the weight across a larger area to distribute weight better. OK so I'm home to receive the new lounges, with the nylon discs ready. Two guys slide the lounge from the front of the truck toward the rear, and bring the lounges in. I show them the position and ask them to leave the lounges on their backs, so I can fit the discs straight up. Low and behold.... one of the little plastic discs that the factory fitted and been broken (I guess from being dragged along the checker-plate truck floor) and what was left was a steel nail head sticking out of the timber leg. If that had been placed onto almost any surface, real damage could have occurred. I removed the nail and all the little discs, stuck the nylon ones on and screwed them securely. The lounges slide nice and easily with no damage or permanent crushing of the carpet. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hmmm a bit dusty! You can see the imprint where the small disc was. The other thing with heavy furniture is it is best to avoid really deep plush carpet and underlay. Firmer low profile choices are much better at withstanding heavy furniture. Ash. 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