Q: My rental apartment has sloping hardwood or linoleum floors in every room. In the living room, we've used felt furniture pads to keep furniture from rocking, but they are not working in the kitchen, which has the worst sloping. Because we're constantly sliding kitchen chairs in and out of the table, the pads won't stay in place.
Worse, the joints in our chairs are starting to fall out because we're putting even weight on this uneven surface. Apart from re-gluing the joints in our chairs every week, how can we mitigate the damage? (We don't plan to stay in this apartment past our lease end, so we don't want to make a huge investment, but we have 9 months to go and we can't afford to replace our wooden kitchen set with anything of quality.)
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Bethany,
I'm sure one of these will help with your problem.
http://www.allglides.com/nailonglides.html
I could suggest furniture socks. Sounds a bit silly but if you google around, you'll see what I mean!
You can get these in a simple or a contrasting colour and they would make moving the chairs around safer.
Nail-on furniture glides, definitely. You can get them at Home Depot, or any other hardware store for that matter. Be sure to get the right size for the diameter of your chair legs.
Perhaps you could try layering the guides or pads to mitigate the uneven surface and prop up the particular chair legs the rock. The legs themselves won't be even but they will be even relative to the floor. This trick doesn't work very well if you need to move the chairs around from room to room but it should help if they stay in the same spot (i.e. around your kitchen table).
Build a stage for your dining table, if you have enough room.
Are you messy eaters? A thick rug (or a thin rug with a rug pad) will provide enough cushion to even out the weight on the chairs.
You also want to make sure the legs of the chairs are hitting the floor flat. By the looks of it, your felt pads are getting squished out the sides. Tape sandpaper to a (flat) floor and move the chair in circles until they are even. Then try your felt pads; they should stay on the bottom.
Or, just lift the chairs when you move them.
This idea will require a little work and a drill. Use threaded chair feet on the chairs. You'll need to install brass threaded inserts into the chair legs (hence the need for the drill) so the feet can screw into the chairs. If you can, find chair feet that swivel, so they remain flush to the floor.
Your chairs are becoming unglued because of the uneven forces on the legs when someone is seated on them. In effect, your chairs are being twisted apart.
the glides. i have actually had this same situation in 2 different homes, and the glides really worked for me. even on a twin sized bed frame.
vandykes has lots of stuff for fixing the chairs : http://www.vandykes.com/s1680-swel-lock-2-oz/p/205644/
glides can be drilled and counter sunk to try to 'prop up' for the dip in the floor until you can move.