Customer Reviews for Staples - Carpet Chair Mat with Lip, 36" x 48'', Medium-Pile - Clear
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Not what I expected
on July 19, 2013
Posted by: Paula K.
Brought the chair pad home. Seemed OK but then I realized that not having a beveled edge is really important. If chair travels beyond the pad wheels can not negotiate the straight lip in order to get back onto pad. Have to lift the wheels over. Quite a pain in the neck. Also wheels make a fairly deep depression in the pad and chair does not roll easily. Should have purchased a better quality pad however store display only had strait edges in all price ranges. Will keep this one for a while but definitely will have to upgrade sometime in the future.
I bought this mat to replace a similar one that disintegrated after about five years. I should have bought one with little pegs on the bottom to prevent it from sliding around on the carpet. Now I have to adjust it every day after it has shifted around. My mistake. It does the job allowing my chair to move easily over the carpet.
This is a near duplicate to one I purchased 6 years ago and which began cracking. It cracked where my front chair roller resided most of the time when I worked at my desk. No I'm not heavy - 170 lbs.
Each four or five years it's floor pad replacement time as the old one invariably cracks and becomes more difficult to roll a chair over. This is thicker than the one replaced (which had deeper pins into the carpet than this). The carpet "pins on this" are like 1/8" slots positioned 90' from each other throughout the bottom of the unit. After 10 days I noticed that the mat had walked about 4" from where it was placed something the last one never did. So thicker easy to use but every 10 days of so I reposition it where it was originally placed. A minor inconvenience but one to note for mid-pile carpet use.