Heavy furniture will definitely damage wood floors. It can happen from day 1, and usually does. Moving heavy furniture such as a refrigerator into your home can be tricky. There are ways you can avoid damage to your polished floors
Worry About Protecting Wood Flooring From Furniture?
When it comes to wood flooring maintenance, many people talk a lot about outside contaminants such as dirt, water, sand, and so on. However, most of the time, the real problem is the heavy furniture in your room.
The most common damage -scratching- occurs when you fail to use wood flooring home protectors.
Luckily, it’s pretty easy to protect hardwood floors from furniture:
Avoid rubber-backed rugs
Although rubber is great for stopping rugs and furniture sliding, rubber is known for discoloring and marking floors. Be careful to add carpet padding to rugs that are going to be used on wood floors and attach them with carpet tape to avoid leaving a mark on your floors after.
Protect wood floors from rolling chairs
An easy way to protect your floor from the damage of rolling chairs is to place a plastic mat where you need your chair to be. This will stop your chair from rolling onto the wood floor surface, protecting the floor. It will also offer a more comfortable experience with a chair that doesn’t constantly glide away. Alternatively, if possible, secure the chair in a comfortable position to the floor to avoid it moving at all.
Never drag, drop or push your furniture
Prevention is better than cure. If you’re wondering the best way to protect floors from chair legs, one key tip is being gentle with moving the chair itself. When moving in or rearranging your room, use chairs moving wheels, sliders or dollies to help with the heavy lifting with no dragging required.
Use Furniture Pads
These pads and gliders can not only cushion corners and feet of furniture pieces, but can elevate them off the floor.
Felt pads perform exceptionally well when you need to shift and slide around furniture without an extra pair of arms. This could be whenever you rearrange a room or clear the area to install new flooring.
