In a busy office environment, both wooden and carpeted floors get rough treatment. Chairs pluck out fabric and dig scratches into wood, rapidly ageing your floor. Stop the damage in its tracks with Allway Matting chair mats.
Our chair mats are smooth, flexible, and transparent. They protect your floor without compromising your style, and we offer specialist designs for any type of flooring.
Unsure what you need? We’ve put together the ultimate guide for choosing the perfect chair mat for your office. Use our guide to find the ideal product for your business.
In a word, yes. While employees love zooming around on roller chairs, they rarely have to deal with the consequences. Moving chairs can scratch and stain wooden floors, tear up carpets, and generally wreak havoc on your floors. Even worse, many office chairs have malfunctioning feet, forcing staff to push themselves around and drag the chairs with them.
Damage to your office floor is inevitable. Fortunately, Allway Matting has designed a range of high-performance plastic mats which are designed to protect your floor without compromising its style and character.
Even with perfectly functioning chairs, carpets are easily torn up. High pile carpets are the most at risk. Their long, loose fibres get caught up in rolling wheels, leading to easy tearing and fabric abuse. Solid wooden chairs are better, but when you’re getting up or sitting down into your chair, that dragging motion still causes considerable damage.
While medium and a low-pile carpets are less at risk, most of us treat them even worse. Because we think they’re stronger, we’ll wheel around on chairs, pushing and pulling with our feet, all day long. This not only wears away the fabric – pulling out tufts of fibres and giving your carpet a cheap, dishevelled look – but can also strain the muscles of your lower back, causing pain and discomfort.
Worse, the constant effort of pulling yourself along the carpet can cause strain to your lower back. Over time
There’s nothing worse than a scratch in a hardwood floor. Unfortunately, the vast majority of chairs are not built with this caution in mind. Wheeled chairs are the worst. They are built from hard, unforgiving plastic which regularly stalls instead of rotating fully. When this happens, the wheel can carve a deep groove into the wood.
Perhaps worse are the regular, thin scratches which are made with every movement. If you step back and look at the floor of any office which doesn’t use plastic mats, you’ll see a network of ugly, criss-crossing white scars in the surface.
The other issue is shoe markings. Whether it’s a pair of trainers or smartly polished shoes, employees pushing themselves around leaves a trail of marks and scuffs in addition to the scratches from the chair itself.
Our clear, flexible desk office mats are the perfect solution for both your carpets and wooden floors. Without hiding the colour and design of your floor, any of our chair mats will provide a smooth surface for chairs and feet, preventing all of the usual damage.
The feet of the chair will no longer pull up tufts of fabric, while the dirt and varnish from your shoes will no longer catch or stain the floor. Our carpet chair mats are built with special grippers to hold them in place without damaging the carpet, and the smooth surface means you can say goodbye to back strain caused from pulling yourself around!
As for wooden floors, you can say goodbye to all the scratching and scarring; with a chair mat, your floor will look brand new after twenty years of heavy use!
Even better, every one of our office mats is liquid and stain resistant, so spilled coffees won’t get anywhere near the attractive flooring. To clean your chair mat, simply wipe and dry and it’ll be good as new!
To avoid expensive repair bills down the line, you really must protect your floor. Desk chair mats are the perfect solution: they’re flexible, easy to clean, unobtrusive, and highly affordable. Contact our sales team to find the perfect office mat for your business.