What to do to prevent the legs of a sofa or chair from scratching the laminate. Simple solution at no extra cost.
Legs of chairs, sofas and other home furniture when they move around the room is very often leave scratches on laminate surfaces.
Moreover, usually these minor damages on the floor are not immediately noticed, and when the floor covering is already spoiled.
To avoid this, it is advisable to take care of the protection of the laminate from such damage in advance.
To solve this problem, you can, of course, buy ready-made pads for the legs.
Can i easy and simple to do and without extra financial costs on their own.
Today we will consider how to protect laminate boards from minor damages that leave the legs from the sofa.
As it turned out, they have already managed to damage the laminate.
It's a shame, of course, that I didn't notice this before.. But, as they say, better late than never.
To protect the flooring from further damage, on the legs from the sofa decided make homemade linings.
For these purposes took remaining after repair a piece of linoleum.
I put it under the leg with the wrong side up and outlined it with a pencil.
Then he did the same with the other legs of the sofa.
Then I cut out all the blanks of future linings using scissors based on the markings.
Then sofa legs and overlays from the outside degreased with alcohol.
Then alternately applied silicone sealant to the lining and put it under the legs of the sofa.
Under the weight of the sofa the pads are securely fixed and the process of damage to the laminate was suspended.