Hi
I just bought a new house and the whole house is floorboards. I just realised that I would need some type of protection for the coach, dining table, chairs etc to protect it from scratching the floorboards. I was planning to use felt from bunnings (cut to size) but have heard that over time it wears away. Alternatively bunnings also sell feltec which are nail on? Can anyone provide recommendation to what they use?
Thanks
stick on pads. but use araldite or super glue to attach them. I'e found (especially with chairs) that they are fine if you don't move them but if you're sliding a dining chair in and out from under the table whilst you are sitting on it then after time the pads stat to come off as the sticky stuff is ok but not great.
Those Bunnings self adhesive ones always fall off. The ones that nail on are worse as the felt part falls off and the plastic scratches the floor. The best thing I've ever used was old carpet, cut the carpet into squares slightly smaller than contact area, paint contact area and backing of carpet with contact adhesive gel, wait for gel to dry then push carpet onto leg firmly. This lasts for years.
get a carpet tile and cut it to the size of the furniture foot and stick it with 2 way tape
the felt stuff doesnt last long after some dragging.
For floorboards you can put down carpets - eg a solid carpet under the dining table and chairs (if you don't then even if you have the felt bits on the chair legs they get bits of dirt/sand/gravel stuck in them and turn it into sandpaper). In corridors put in a runner for the high track areas.
It is pretty much inevitable it will be scratched and dented.
There are also stick on pads, that's what we use. Cheap and they'll be in something like a pack of 12. Go to Bunnings and see all the types.
I don't like the nail in ones myself.