I will be watching the answers on this one. I have the same issues with dust (and hair) collecting on the pads. The adhesive area is larger than the bottom of the chairs and all sorts of junk gets stuck on there and the only real way to get it off is by hand... YUCK!

I hope the link below comes across okay, otherwise I'll just have to describe. There are furniture glides made of plastic and I'm very happy with them. All sorts of sizes, altho I can only vouch for the ones that screw into the bottom of the furniture -- they also come in adhesive.

Go to Home Depot web site and search for "Magic Sliders." I've seen at Bed Bath and Beyond, too. Name makes it sound like a really good hamburger.

Here is a link that might be useful: Magic Sliders at Home Depot

With regular scissors, trim the heavy-duty felt pads (get the 4"x6" rectangles) to the exact size of your chair/table leg, then use Gorilla Glue to adhere them nice and tightly. It will foam up a bit, so keep an eye on it and don't apply too much. Wipe off any overflow with a damp rag after 5 minutes. Let it sit, with chair/table right-side up for weight, for a few hours before using. Will last at least a few years with no slippage.

I agree with circuspeanut.
I only added one step which was to sand before putting the
adhesive down. And letting it dry for 24 hours before using
the chairs. stools.. It lasts for years.

As for the tiny dust that collects around the bottom.
This is part of general cleaning. When someone figures out
how to get rid of dust I will be first in line to try
t. : )

Our house must be messier than Circuspeanut's or Boxerpups', because even with daily floor cleaning, we don't get just tiny dust, but major dust and pet hair, and occasional, but all-too-often pieces of sand/grit that can turn the floor into hamburger underneath in a split second if you don't realize it's there. I have the same cleaning complaint as Mamadadapaige, and hope there's a better answer.

I have tried the magic sliders and hated them. The "slider" part either wore through or popped off, leaving hard plastic that gouged the floor. Now I'm using the adhesive felt pads, but I like circuspeanut's method and will try that. Could get kind of tedious covering 8 chairs, 2 stools, and 4 table legs, though, as that's 56 felt shapes to cut...

Thank you circuspeanut and fleur222. I have been wondering if glueing them on would be the answer. Nice to hear it from someone who has done it successfully.

Yes, I confess, I am a closet clean freak. I try to
pretend I am not but really I can not help it. I don't
love to clean, I just can't relax if I walk on a floor
with even one tiny little sand grit on my foot.

Even with college roomates I was the girl cleaning at 3 am.
While everyone was passed out drunk.

I was raised this way. You should see my sisters. We all
scrub our floors on hands and knees. No one walks in our
homes with shoes on. Every night before bed I wipe down
the floors in the kitchen. Maids quit with me they don't
get fired. : ) I must be from a long line of cleaning ladies...

When I gave birth to my first child, my mother and aunts
arrived. My husband was shocked to find one aunt scrubbing
the sidewalk in front of our home. She bleached the steps
and walkway. It was then DH realized that he married into
a family of clean freaks.

Sorry to go off topic. I guess this is why the felt pads
work for my floor. Or maybe it is me working for the felt
pads. >

Boxerpups
(Yes, I chase dog hair like the rest of the world)

Boxerpups thanks for the morning laugh! I was afraid when posting the question that it would really say more about me and my cleaning habits than anything! I just want my home that clean, but I need all the help I can get, so the quest for floor savers that don't attract what I didn't get around to. I do sometimes use the felt pads that are a tad bit smaller or just the size of the chair leg, since a larger size is really a dust magnet. Sounds like the glides are a possibility. I did see them at home depot. I will take a look at the heavy duty felt maybe they will work better, because I think the others wear down and start to slide off and then possibly attract dust to the original glue.

I am the opposite of Boxerpups -- I keep house like a drunken frat boy. And I have 2 cats and live near the ocean. Yet I really haven't had too much trouble with the felt glides picking up grit and yuck - maybe I've got the usual amount of dirt/hair on my glides, or even more, but in my case it just doesn't bother me?

[This is like the old question of relativity: do people who say they hate chocolate actually taste what I do, in which case they couldn't possibly hate it, or do they taste something more like what I taste when I eat Brussels Sprouts? It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma.]

I too use the felt pads. they make 2 different sizes, one size fits the bottom of my chairs and the other (larger) fit the bottom of my bar stools. Yes, when I vacuum I have to tilt each chair up and clean off the dust/dog hair from the bottom of each leg. (am used to that after 11 years) then after awhile the felt starts to come off (the sticky stuff quits working) and I replace them. I was always afraid the plastic would scratch is dirt got under them, then I heard the felt ones scratch worse. damned if I do, damed if I don't.

if anyone has a better solution I'm waiting to hear!

My wood floor guy advised me absolutely against products like Magic Sliders. He said "hard surface against hard surface = scratches". He recommends felt pads. He gave me felt pads that have screws on the back to screw into the bottom of my kitchen chairs. After 3 years they are still working well, much better than the stick-on felt pads that I have on my dining room chairs that I have to replace every 4 months or so. I unfortunately don't know what the screw-in ones are called or where to get them! (hoping someone here does)

As to the felt collecting dust, I just include the removal of that dust as part of my vacuuming routine. I have a dog and cats, and there's lots of hair. I always have to use my vacuum's crevice-nozzle-accessory-thingy anyway to get into the kitchen's corners and under the toe kicks; so, sucking the dust bunnies around my chair legs and felt pads is just part of that, and only takes a minute or two.

I saw something at home depot with a felt pad and a nail. I was in a hurry so didn't look close. I will look again.

So, it's not just me?!

Whew. Good to know. Really good to know. ;^)

"I always have to use my vacuum's crevice-nozzle-accessory-thingy...so, sucking the dust bunnies around my chair legs and felt pads is just part of that, and only takes a minute or two."

I wish it was as easy as that sounds for us...We have to turn our chairs (12 of them plus 4 in the kitchen, plus a couple stools) upside down in order to clean the felt pads adequately...And the oak, Mission style chairs, especially, are heavy.

The Bona site looks like it has a few things to interest me and the price on the pads isn't too bad.

I've been considering giving up and getting a rug for under the table and chairs...