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It's more like preventive maintenance. Many new hardwood floor owners obsess over keeping a pristine look and nine times out of ten, depending on how active your household, it's not going to happen. Keep in mind floors are not furniture and do take a beating. All hardwood floors will scratch, some will show more than others.

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Do you mean from regular daily use or protecting your floors from furniture slipping/sliding around?

I'm talking about products to put on the legs of chairs and tables as well as other furniture that will sit on the hardwood.

When I move large pieces of furniture, I use felt bottom sliders to protect the floor; otherwise, nothing.

What about chairs that will be moved frequently?

I'm curious too, rmverb. We have barstools that we use little round pieces of felt that stick to the bottom of the legs to help protect the floor. Maybe someone has a better idea? How about rugs (runners and area rugs)? Do people put felt pads under them to eliminate sliding resulting in scratches? Our office has wood floors too and I'm trying to figure out what to put on the floor under the chair. I've heard the plastic floor mats will leave small scratches from shifting around.

I use (and sell) D-Fenders like these: http://www.1877floorguy.com/1-75-floor-d-fenders-100pc.html

There are similar products out there that might be more readily available.

Under my lone area rug I just added a non-slip pad I bought and Pier One. Office chairs are tough. The hard plastic mats are ugly and I've seen them trap moisture underneath but there aren't a lot of better options.

Yep felt bottoms, various sizes, also linear strips if applicable.

Yup stick on felt pads work best, they do have to be replaced every so often on chairs that have a lot of movement, but they truly work.

We have felt pads under the big pieces of furniture, but I didn't like them on the dining chairs. The adhesive would get on the floor and they collected cat fur.

We went to Fleet Farm and found rubber things that look like these to put on the dining chairs. I prefer them because it eliminated the problem of glue on the floor and furry feet. They do not slide as easily as the felt, though. I'm fine with that.

We also highly recommend using the felt pads under furniture for hardwood floors. Unfortunately, the adhesive that comes on them usually doesn't last very long... This being said, we ALSO recommend using another adhesive to help them stick better. We've found that a hot glue gun works really well without damaging the furniture.

I hope this helps!

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I use felt on feet of all furniture except the chairs around our table. For those chairs, I use furniture feet. They don't last as long as I expected, the plastic starts to split, but so far they remained on. They did last longer than the felt so I would probably put new ones on when they do fall off.

nail on felt pads. Highly recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Nail-Heavy-Furniture-Surfaces-piece/dp/B000PB0ZTA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483719998&sr=8-2&keywords=nail+on+felt+furniture+feet

The sticky ones drove me nuts, they dont' last long enough and come half off and are really annoying. I also tried the "furniture feet" as seen on tv things but I thought they were ugly.

I use a product called "Furniture Feet". The paper inside the box lists four sizes available: extra small, small, large, & extra large. At my local Bed Bath & Beyond store, they only have sizes small and large. Maybe the other sizes can be found online. The small is for leg size 7/8" - 1 1/4". Large is for leg size 1 3/8"- 1 5/8".

The clear stretchy part is very flexible, yet sturdy. They fit round legs as well as square or rectangular legs. Furniture Feet