Customer Reviews for Staples - Carpet Chair Mat with Lip, 45" x 53'', High-Pile - Clear
Customer Rating
3
Does not move when you roll your chair.
on March 19, 2012
Posted by: Paula K.
I have a thick carpet and pad in my office and this pad was said to be build for this type of carpet. I weigh 200 plus pounds and I find it a bit difficult to move my chair around. I actually have another smaller mat on top of the mat I purchased. Doing this makes it possible to roll my chair without too much difficulty. If I did not have the second mat I belieive it would be very difficult to roll the chair at all. I would suggest that you might find a market for a much thicker rigid mat. This the type mat I had and it was very easy to roll the chair. The rigid mat I had was quite heavy and definitely could not be shipped via UPS etc. On the other hand there would not be a need to have two mats so that you can roll your chair easily on plush carpet/pad. As far as recommending it to a friend it is the thickest mat I found but still needs to be thicker and that is why I use two mats stacked together.
I selected this mat because it felt like a quality product. It is a nice thickness and my chair glided over it well. However... it does not stay in place. I use it on carpet and I find it creeping closer to the desk every day. I am constantly moving it back into place.
We bought others like this for our offices so we went back and got another for our home. It is in a room with very different carpet and it still works very well.
I returned a less expensive mat to Staples and ordered this sight unseen (not available in store). I returned the original thinner mat because it moved around with chair movement. I thought this thicker more expensive mat with "more cleats per mat for superior hold" would be better. It does move less but it does not stay in place like all the mats I have owned in the past which have spike-type cleats.