Customer Reviews for Staples - Carpet Chair Mat with Lip, 45" x 53'', High-Pile - Clear
Customer Rating
4
Does what you expect it to do.
on February 5, 2014
Posted by: Paula K.
Haven't had it long seems to be a typical chair mat. You should know that it is shipped flat and unpackaged and the shipping label is stuck on the smooth side with REAL GOOD glue.
Works great. Protects the carpet from the continued opening and closing of the cabinet door. Keeps that quarter circle rut from appearing in the new carpet.
This flat pile carpet chair mat with lip lasts a long time is durable and holds up with my chair rolling over it day after day. I would recommend this product. The price is reasonable and given the length of time that it lasts works out to just pennies a day for the cost. It doesn't ruin the carpeting or floor underneath and the chair slides smoothly and cleanly across the mat. It is so flat that you don't trip on it when walking from the carpet to the mat. It's definitely worth buying.
I passed up on the matts in the store because they were out of heavy duty ones. I ordered the heavy duty one on the web site. It was a big one and fit my space perfectly. I bought a very expensive chair at the store (the red Sealy one). It's the only red chair in the store and you've probably seen it. The chair has two rollers on each leg and they are each very thin (1/2in). When measured together they span around 2 in. It makes a good solid contact with the matt but the matt dents under the weight of me and the chair. I'm 250lbs but 6'3". I think if the matt was really built heavy duty it would take my weight. As it is now the indentations of the rollers have made points that the chair gets stuck in and becomes very hard to move the chair. Simply put the matt needs to be thicker if it is to be called a heavy duty matt. I said I would recommend this but only with a warning it may indent.
Does exactly what the description says. Protects hardwood floors. I use my chair 6-8 hours a day and have not seen any damage to the floor or to the mat. Mat is also thin enough that if you do roll off the edge you do not have to carry the chair back onto the mat you can just roll right back onto the mat. I looked at other sizes but this size seemed to be the best. It fit between the legs of my computer desk actually the legs hold the mat in place ;) and it is long enough that you can slide back from the keyboard and not go off the edge. If the mat was any shorter you would slide off the edge.
This chair mat was placed in a home office which was not used on a daily basis. I certainly expected the mat to last more than two months. The mat has cracked where the wheels of the chair roll and the wheels now get stuck in the crack. Very disappointed with the quality of this product; it really should be a heavier gauge plastic.
Purchased this to replace one that was breaking up where the chair wheels rubbed the most about 6 mos. This one is doing fine but have only had it a month