These things are great! At the recommendation of the seller, I purchased these to move an antique, upright grand piano. My estimate of the piano's weight is between 900 and 1200 lbs. The last time we moved it, we had professional piano moving equipment (my father is a piano tuner and repairman) and six adult men. Even with proper equipment and six men, we left indentations in our oak floors. With these felt sliders, two of us moved the piano several feet to make room for painters and left no marks on the floor. As you can see in the photos, the casters on the piano are tiny - perhaps 2" in diameter - and made of steel. Rolling the piano on these casters would have destroyed the floor. Not a single mark or indentation with the X-PROTECTORs. I may just leave them under the casters to make it easy to move for cleaning.
these are super. we have an extremely heavy couch. with these new sliders and now with new vinyl plank flooring, I can slide the couch easily, by myself, 72 year old woman. Go, women!
Please read the descriptive information carefully before ordering. These X-PROTECTOR sliders do work OK to move furniture on my laminate flooring, but the felt pads do not slide well. Care must be taken as you move the furniture or the pads suddenly slide out from under, risking a scratched floor. These are not the Super Slider Waxman quality I am used to. I re-ordered, and this time I made sure I ordered the Super Slider brand. There IS a difference. I have used many Super Sliders to move my furniture on carpet. Now, I need the hardwood type.
These worked out excellently. Was having my floors refinished and the contractor wanted to charge me a ridiculous amount to move the furniture. He used these special furniture moving belts and 2 men. Instead, my niece and I popped these under the legs of a breakfront, dresser, bed frame, and huge heavy armoire, and just slid the furniture out of the room. When the refinishing was done and the floors were completely dry and set, I could put everything back and rearrange my furniture with ease. I wouldn't move a whole house of stuff to a moving van with these, but for a couple of pieces of furniture in and out of rooms, these were perfect.
We put one pad under each of four wheels on our 250lb fridge to move it for new countertop installation. Though our fridge has wheels we found it left light scratches on hardwood floor when being moved. It's a bit of an effort to get these in place directly under wheels and required two people. We must also slide the fridge slowly to avoid dislodging the pads. However, these work great if you move the fridge slowly. They leave absolutely no marks on our hardwood floor. We've decided now that we've moved fridge back to leave these on. Highly recommended.
Just installed new luxury vinyl plank flooring and was planning on using these to move the big heavy furniture but they do not work. I beleive the issue is the planks are grained and these are not designed for textured planks.
I just had my hardwood floors stripped and refinished and didn't want to put the furniture back in the room without pads. Unfortunately, I was so excited to order the sliders and didn't pay attention to the "4 3/4 inch" mentioned in the description! Although I ordered 3 sets (I needed 20 pads), I could only use four because they were larger than I needed for small furniture legs. The pads are thick, nice, and well made. I will use the other four pads in the set for furniture in another room.
Just moved to a home with new hardwood flooring. These are perfect! Buying a 5th set to keep forever under our heavy furniture. These will save our backs when moving furniture to clean under, plus, save our beautiful flooring from scratches. I'm a 56 year old woman and I can effortlessly move our heavy sofa by myself. If someone complains about these, then they wouldn't know happiness if it fell in their lap!