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Chair casters

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This means you can roll over all floors without any worries

The right wheels ensure optimal comfort and protect your floor. Many office chairs are equipped with carpet castors as standard. For hard floors such as parquet, laminate, tiles or PVC, we recommend special hard floor rollers. Please pay attention to the appropriate roller and pin size, which is specified in the product details of your chair.
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Office chair castors –  How to find the right ones

No question – one Office chair with wheels is practical. Wheels on the bottom of the chair allow you a high level of flexibility and mobility when working at your desk. You can move with the chair from the desk and to the shelf or easily move the chair to another workstation. However, so that office chair castors do not become a daily nuisance, they must fit the surface. As a rule of thumb: choose hard wheels for soft floors and soft wheels for hard floors. Find office chair castors that match your floor covering and the office chair design of your chair right here in the online shop.

Table of Contents

  • Office chair wheels - why soft wheels for hard floors and vice versa?
  • Office chair wheels – which ones are suitable for parquet, laminate and vinyl?
  • What should I pay attention to when choosing office chair castors?
  • Conclusion

Office chair wheels - why soft wheels for hard floors and vice versa?

When choosing castors for the office chair, the floor covering is crucial. If you have a soft floor such as carpet, then hard rollers are the right choice. If you have a hard floor such as vinyl, parquet, tiles or laminate, then soft rollers are recommended. There are good reasons for this. If you want the rollers to move smoothly on a soft surface such as a carpet, then the material of the rollers should not create much resistance. Soft wheels on soft floors can mean that the chair can only be moved with great effort. For soft floors, hard rollers made of hard plastic or solid plastic are used.

On hard floors such as parquet, it is important that the casters provide enough friction so that the chair does not constantly slip. In addition, the soil should be protected as much as possible. Hard floor casters or soft castors for hard floors usually have a coating. This is soft and abrasion-resistant. The softly coated rollers protect the floor and prevent damage. Hard floor castors can often be recognized by their two-tone design. Soft floor rolls, on the other hand, are usually plain black. The castors for hard floors are also the right choice when using floor protection mats.

Castors for office chairs – which ones are suitable for parquet, laminate and vinyl?

If a work chair is used daily on parquet floors, this will damage the floor covering. With long-term use, parquet, laminate and vinyl floors are damaged by the rollers. Signs of wear and tear become apparent over time. On parquet, for example, the seal is often removed. The flooring becomes gray and dull. If the parquet floor is not protected and repaired again with a seal, major damage can occur. If the top layers of vinyl, laminate and parquet floors are removed, they also become susceptible to moisture. If you want to avoid major damage and complex, expensive repairs, you should invest in parquet office chair castors.

Parquet office chair castors are hard floor castors. This means that office chair castors for parquet are constructed similarly to a car wheel. There is a hard core inside. This is comparable to the rim on a car wheel. The core of the office chair castors for parquet is surrounded by a soft cover. In addition to the parquet office chair castors, you can protect your floors with a floor protection mat. Investing in office chair castors for parquet is worth it because they are always cheaper than new floor coverings.

What should I pay attention to when choosing office chair castors?

Have you changed the flooring or the entire office? The office chair castors you have been using so far are defective or do not meet your requirements in terms of quality? Then of course you need new office chair castors. If you want to swap the casters, you must make sure that the new office chair replacement casters match the flooring and your chair. Choose soft wheels for hard floors and hard wheels for soft floors. If you don't know exactly which office chair wheels fit your chair model, measure the pin with which the wheels are attached to the base. The diameter will help you decide on rollers with the right pin. As a rule, the pins are standardized and have a diameter of 10 or 11 mm.

To change the chair castors, all you have to do is pull the old casters out of the base using the pin. If the pin is very tight, use pliers and adhesive lubricant. The new wheels for the office chair are then simply inserted. On other models the casters may need to be unscrewed. Common tools can help here. When buying office chair castors, you should also make sure that they are suitable for a certain load-bearing capacity. Is yours Desk chair designed to be heavy, the casters must also be designed accordingly.

Conclusion

If you have an office chair with wheels, you should make sure to choose the office chair wheels to match your floor covering. In particular, sensitive floors made of wood, cork or laminate must be protected from excessive wear and tear with special parquet office chair castors. At the same time, office chair castors contribute to safety, comfort and mobility. In our online shop you will find a large selection of parquet rolls and replacement rolls.

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