Rubber caps for chairs
There’s no worse feeling than the one we get when we see our newly polished floor get scratched out by people dragging chairs over them. It’s twice as frustrating when this is done on new flooring, ruining the new shine faster than we put it up. Of course, there are plenty of preemptive measures we can take against this problem. We can get furniture with built-in wheels, or place carpets over those surfaces that are more vulnerable to being scratched. However, there’s a simpler solution and it comes in the form of rubber caps for chairs.
These caps are a resilient, flexible, light, and durable way of securing your floors while also giving some much-needed protection to your chairs. After all, chairs suffer no less from accidental scratches and other types of damage so it’s always nice to attach protection at the end of their legs to maintain that flawless appearance for that much longer. The health of chair’s legs can also impact its structure, leading to possible instability of the chair and increasing chances of accidents happening. Apart from being a good way to secure your chairs and floor, rubber caps for chairs are also good at making your furniture quiet as well as making it harder for it to slip. The obnoxious sound of furniture being dragged or moved can be very grating even if it doesn’t cause any further damage to the floors or legs themselves. Furniture slipping due to the bad friction between it and the floor is another possible issues we can run into, which also gets taken care of with these caps. Even if this issue isn’t apparent or frequent it can lead to accidents. Due to potential injury, it is better to secure our chairs from these possible issues.
Another advantage is the sheer simplicity of installation. You just need to slip these onto the legs of your chair, their design will have them grip the leg and provide the aforementioned benefits immediately.
Rubber Feet & Bumper Size Catalog
Compare mounting style, overall size and recess dimensions. Each profile uses its own drawing and column meanings.
Recess Rubber Bumper
Compare OD, H, A, B and C in mm. C indicates the outer base dimension on this bumper profile, not the recess depth.
Cylindrical Rubber Feet
Compare OD, H and B in mm using the cylindrical-foot drawing. Material and colour remain listed separately.
Recess Rubber Feet
Compare OD, H, A, B and C in mm. C indicates the recess depth on this feet profile.
Hemispherical Rubber Bumper
Compare OD, H, A, B and C in mm using the hemispherical-bumper drawing.
Rubber Tips
Compare A, B and C in mm using the open round-tip drawing. Check the mating leg dimensions and seating depth.
Rectangular rubber feet for chairs
Compare A, B and C in mm using the rectangular-tip drawing. Check both sides of the mating leg and the seating depth.
Rubber Feet For Chairs
Compare A, B, C and D in mm using the square-tip drawing. Check the mating leg profile and seating depth.
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Discuss Your RequirementsProduct specifications
- Product form
- Furniture-leg tip with a resilient floor-contact face
- Application focus
- Chair legs. Size the part against the selected assembly.
- Dimensions to confirm
- Leg-end profile, cap cavity, engagement depth and contact-face area. Match these to chair legs.
- Installation discussed
- Push-on fitting. Identify the chosen retention method and the surface or hardware it engages.
- Contact surface
- Carpet. Check marking, grip and movement on the actual finish under load.
- Loaded seating
- Check that the contact face sits evenly on the floor with the furniture loaded.
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