Customer Reviews for Staples - Hard Floor Chair Mat with Lip, 36" x 48'' - Clear
Customer Rating
5
Exactly what I need
on July 17, 2013
Posted by: Paula K.
Service and delivery are always excellent. This floor mat works perfectly in my small office behind the desk with rolling chair. Was rolled up on delivery and flattened down quickly - within one day after placing on carpet.
Only after two weeks of use the mat has developed these depressions and the chair gets stuck and is difficult to move. I am using the mat in my small home office and the chair isn't very heavy either...... its a task chair. The mat is very thin and the quality if inferior quality. Wish I could return it.
The mat was easier than I expected to unroll and lay out flat. I needed gloves however to keep from hurting my hands on the spikes. The mat looks good and protects the carpet well. However the plastic material is quite soft and the chair does not roll easily on it. The wheels simly press the mat down into the carpet. Part of the problem may be that my carpet is too plush for this type of mat. I have a couple of hard plexiglass carpet pads which work fine for rolling but they slide around on the carpet. I thought your mat with its built-in plastic spikes would solve the sliding problem and it does. However the material is a little too soft at least for my carpet and I would prefer a harder material (but not as hard and slick as plexiglas). Maybe you'll come up with one in the future.
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.
This product was much better than the former one which was considerably cheaper. It stays put and it is also very easy to clean. We have a large computer desk setup (two desks in one) and it affords me the opportunity of moving around on my desk chair and not move onto the carpet. Prior to this I was not aware that they sell them by the depth and by the size. The older one was much smaller because we had a smaller setup with just one desk. It also blends well into our cream colored carpet. I would certainly recommend this product.