how do you stop the wheels on your computer chair leaving ruts in your carpet ?

Soldato
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you get cups with (blunt plastic) spikes on for sofas / beds. The spike goes through the carpet between the fibres and supports the furniture without flattening the pile.

Chair mats are the same - a sheet of solid plastic on top to roll across but underneath it's little plastic spikes so it doesn't flatten the carpet.

You don't use offcuts, cardboard or hump your sofa, that's all wrong, very wrong in at least one case.
 
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We had a new stair carpet fitted a month ago which also ran straight into one of the spare bedrooms where I have my PC. The PC sees a lot of use throughout the days and weeks so I decided to use an offcut of the carpet as a mat under the chair. However, as Telescopi pointed out, this ended up flattening the pile. There is now a huge flat mark where the chair has been moving back and forth and despite trying to rescue the pile back again, I can't get rid of it. Wish I had thought about that before. Needless to say the missus wasn't best pleased.
 
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They're gone in a couple of days, and who really cares about them anyways?

They also help me slot into my favourite sitting position :p
 
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