On 26 May 2004 03:36:33 -0700, (N. Thornton) wrote:

Peter Twydell wrote in message ...
We're about to move house, and one of the "new" bedrooms will be used as
an office.

Our present office has a carpeted floor, and moving an office chair on
it has f^hrucked the carpet and underlay. SWMBO tells me not to move the
chair around on the floor, but to get up each time I want something from
the bookcase or whatever. I ignore her.

The new office has a laminate floor, which doesn't look all that bad,
but real wood would look so much better. Which would be harder wearing,
bearing in mind that I'm 18+ stone (about 115kg), so there's going to be
quite a load on said surface? If wood parquet is the better, any
recommendations as to type of wood and type of varnish?

I wouldn't want chairs on castors, as they apply very high point loads
to the floor, and I'd be surprised if either survived that.

It works fine if you have castors with rubber tyres. I've done this
with Aeron chairs on a hardwood floor with no problems at all.

Better
would be to use wider pads for chair feet, fitted with a piece of cord
carpet, then your floor should survive.

If you have laminate and it looks ok, it seems unnecessary to rip it
out.

It's *always* necessary to rip out laminate floor because it looks
tacky :-)

The main downside with lam is its lifespan: ripping it out only
shortens that dramatically, achieving little.


Regards, NT

..andy

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