How to Keep Your Restaurant Chairs from Scratching the Floor

Maintaining a restaurant floor presentable for your customers is often a challenge when dealing with delicate surfaces, such as hardwood floors or vinyl composition tile flooring. The cost of fixing floor damage caused by scratches is generally more than that of adapting your restaurant chairs or floor with mats, felt pads or rubber shoes that can be purchased or made from upholstery materials at relatively lower cost.

Instructions

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  Use rubber head nails. These come in various sizes and can be easily nailed to the bottom of each chair leg. You can purchase these from the Web in quantities of a dozen or boxes of up to 100 rubber-head nails in hardware stores.
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  Browse the Web for online stores that specialize in offering products for the maintenance of floors, accessories and chair protection fixtures, such as rubber chair tips and heavy duty felt pads. These will vary in prices and durability.
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  Prevent chairs from scratching at a lower cost by crafting your own protectors. Glue or attach carpet snippets, corks or rubber fabric on the bottom of each chair leg. You can obtain snippets of heavy duty carpet or suitable material from a local upholstery business.
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  Obtain or purchase chair mats or heavy duty PVC carpet protectors that cover the area where chairs are used. Measure the area covered by your restaurant tables and chairs. Contact your local hardware stores or company on the Web and ask for an estimate for purchasing several PVC carpets.
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  Monitor the wear and tear of chair protectors you have placed and replace them as necessary to prevent scratches and maintain your restaurant floor free of sand, grit or other abrasive particles.

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