Sort-of parenting question: we have a couch with wooden legs which slides and moves way too easily. It can slide back just from the force of sitting down, unless you sit on it ever so carefully. Due to our size/room limitations, I've had to put an antique carved wooden screen behind it (more furniture than house, and no, there is no other place in the house for the screen. Believe me. It would be elsewhere if I could swing it! ). Aside from putting a carpet down (which isn't an option- our cats love to claw everything), is there a product or other idea which would help the couch stay put? The legs are about 6" in diameter and wooden... I've folded up pieces of non-slip rubbery fabric (the kind you put under a small rug) to put under the legs-- largely unsuccessful.
I have to laugh-- Gamma, if I had a closet big enough, maybe the screen would go there!
I've been babying this thing for the past couple of years-- we just keep pulling the couch forward. Having a small bungalow means prioritizing what goes where... my inlaws sent this to my husband, who is apparently the annex for the stuff they love which doesn't fit into their new, smaller home. Most of the time it's fine, just wanting to protect this beauty. :)
We had a couch that would slide and scratched the wood floor. I found rubber couch leg bases at Home Depot. They also had them at the local hardware store. They are about 1 1/2 to 2 inches square and stopped the couch from moving. I had also tried the rug base and shelf liner but it just did not work well.
We got rubber pad from Home Depot. They come in a variety of sizes and color to match your floor so they are not so visible. You just put a pad under each leg and they are non slip.
They make rubbery stick on things for that purpose but if you want to go the cheap and easy to remove without damaging cut up those spongy shelf liners.
Like this.
https://www.amazon.com/Con-Tact-Premium-Non-Adhesive-Non-...
Ahh see I read to the end and you tried them. You have to change them often because eventually they are flattened by the weight of the sofa and then they slip too.
Not willing to cut up my spongy floor mats to see if they work but that also may be worth a try. I am talking about those spongy mats you put in kitchens with hard surfaces when you have bad knees. They are about a inch thick and don't slide at all.
There are a bunch of non skid pads on the market.
These might do the trick - but you can Google and find many others:
https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Furniture-Grippers-inch-Round...
Antique carved screen. It would be in a closet being protected if my couch was moving and hitting it. If it's worth enough to care about anyway. Things that have monetary value or mental value due to what it is and where it came from are things that are not allowed to be hurt. They get put up and cared for.
If you can't find a solution to the couch moving you need to put the screen away until you move or get a different couch, but any couch is going to slide on wood floors.
A couple of things.
Folding stuff allowed those folds to move. You only put one layer. That's why this option isn't working.
Put an area rug down in the center of your living room and put the couch front legs on the rug. That should anchor it some.
The suggestions below are good ones.
We have a rubber pads that work too. I think we got ours at Lowes.
Google "rubber furniture feet". Those work, in my experience.
Hi! We had the same problem-- our couch always slid on our wood floors. I bought shelf liner (can get it at Big Lots or Walmart) in the color that matches your floor (brown in our case). I then cut the shelf liner into 4 small pieces and placed each piece under the legs. No more sliding.
Here's something non- expensive, get some clear food- preserving wrap and wrap some around the legs of the chair, it's cheap nobody really will notice
