Finish damage from sliding shares

Finish damage

This will damage any floor

Hard plastic casters can damage hard surface flooring

Worn protectors

Felt protectors need to be replaced

Damage from sliding chairs

No felt protector

Plastic protectors can damage hard surface flooring

Protector has shifted and ineffective

Floor damage from rolling trafficdamage

This protector will damage the floor

Warn protector

Rolling traffic without chair mat can damage floor

Worn protectors - missing felt

This protector will damage any floor

Chair Protectors / Furniture Contact Conditions (Wood & Laminate)

Floor Detective® Claims and Conditions Guide

Summary

Surface wear, scratching, scuffing, gouging, indentation, or finish damage may develop where furniture legs, glides, pads, wheels, or protectors contact wood or laminate flooring surfaces. When contact materials are small, rigid, worn, uneven, or contain embedded debris, pressure and friction become concentrated at the surface and may produce abrasion, compression, shear stress, finish wear, or localized deformation. Sliding, pivoting, rocking, and rolling movement may lead to progressive surface change that commonly corresponds with furniture placement and movement patterns, although similar damage may also result from a single concentrated contact or impact event. Different flooring materials respond differently to concentrated contact depending on surface hardness, wear-layer construction, finish type, and support conditions. These effects reflect interaction between furniture contact materials and the flooring surface rather than an inherent defect in the flooring product itself. See also Scratching, Dents, and Impact Damage, Early Wear and Surface Damage, and Hardwood Floor Problems for broader context.

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