For commercial buyers, facility teams, and design specifiers
Commercial furniture floor protection engineered for properties that can’t afford a glide failure. Volume pricing on bulk projects. Free samples on request. Project quotes back within 24 business hours.
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Hotel and restaurant grade commercial furniture floor protection. Free samples for verified businesses. 24-hour quote turnaround.
Specified at high-traffic Orlando-area destination properties
Engineered for chairs that get moved hundreds of times per shift
Volume pricing on bulk projects
Project quotes back within one business day
Case Study · Children’s Area Hotel Lobby
A flagship Orlando-area destination resort had a recurring problem in the children’s area of one of their lobbies: the stools kept tearing through glides faster than housekeeping could replace them. Over the course of the project, our team field-tested four different glide constructions on the same stools, in the same environment, watched three of them fail, and documented exactly why.
Four generations of glides tested on the same stools in the same lobby. Three failed; one didn’t.
Generation 1
Wore down within months, especially where stools dragged across carpeted transitions. The remaining screws had to be removed from every stool leg before the next attempt could be installed.
Generation 2
Cheap commodity glides attached to the leg with a single driven nail. Broke off under repeated lateral force, leaving the exposed nail sticking out of the stool leg. A safety problem and a floor-damage problem at the same time. Note: not the same as our nail-on glides, which are mechanically secured with a tubular rivet, not a single nail.
Generation 3
Wore down rapidly and consistently broke at the nail attachment point. Same failure pattern as the previous generation, just slightly slower.
Generation 4
Smooth movement across the floor. Enough resistance to keep the stool from sliding out from under guests. No nails, no torn-up leg bottoms, no failures across the documented testing window.
The installed solution. Six adhesive-backed glides per stool, no rivets, no torn leg bottoms.
The lesson holds across every project we’ve supported since: a glide that works on hardwood will not necessarily work on carpet, and a glide that works on a static dining chair will not necessarily survive a children’s stool that gets moved 50 times an hour. We spec by use case, not by catalog.
“If a glide can’t survive a children’s lobby, it won’t survive your dining room.”
Superior Glide engineering team
Case Study · Restaurant Dining Room
A common assumption is that Teflon glides slide forever. In a residential setting they often do. In a restaurant setting on commercial carpet, they don’t, and the reason is in the material data sheet.
PTFE is roughly half as hard as the carpet fiber it slides against. Initial performance feels excellent; long-term performance is a counter going down. Our recommended commercial furniture floor protection glide for commercial carpet uses a hard ABS sliding face matched to the Rockwell hardness of the carpet, not a softer one.
The recommended glide for this restaurant project, shown across angles. Hard ABS sliding face matched to the Rockwell hardness of commercial nylon and polypropylene carpet.
Read the full materials breakdown in our Furniture Slides Guide →
From first email to delivered commercial furniture floor protection order, most projects move quickly.
Use the request form, send an email, or call the line. Describe what you’re protecting, what kind of furniture, what kind of floor, and rough quantities. No business account needed to start a conversation.
Within 24 business hours, our team reviews your project and ships the right samples for your application, not a generic sample box. Includes a written recommendation on size, mounting method, and tier.
Stock items ship promptly from order approval. Larger and custom orders get a confirmed lead time before you commit.
Every industry below has tested our commercial furniture floor protection products in real working environments, restaurants in service, ballrooms during turnover, classrooms with chairs scraping all day.
A 600-chair ballroom turns over four times a day. The cost of one bad glide multiplies by 2,400 every cycle. We supply the properties that can’t afford to get this wrong.
A busy restaurant moves each chair 200+ times a day. That’s 73,000 scrapes a year, per chair. Our glides absorb the punishment so your hardwood doesn’t.
Conference chairs, task seating, reception furniture. If it sits on a floor you want to keep looking new, we have the right hardware for it.
A single classroom moves chairs 50+ times a day, every school day, for nine months. We supply commercial furniture floor protection to districts that have stopped buying replacement glides every semester.
Bedside tables, dining chairs, transfer seating. Quiet movement matters. Our glides reduce the screech that wakes patients and the drag that strains caregivers.
Council chambers, pew kneelers, multipurpose hall stacking chairs. Specs that hold up under public scrutiny and budget review.
Commercial furniture floor protection projects price differently than retail. Tell us what you’re ordering and we’ll quote it at the right level for the volume.
Every quote includes a written recommendation on size, surface material, and mounting method based on your floor, furniture, and use case. We reference relevant BHMA commercial furniture floor protection hardware standards and industry-published commercial flooring specifications when relevant. Free, no business account required.
Stock items ship promptly from order approval. Larger or custom orders get a confirmed lead time in writing before you commit.
Approved business accounts get direct contact with our specification team. No queue, no chatbot, no offshore support tier.
For Verified Buyers
A business account is free, and it’s the next step after we’ve quoted your first commercial furniture floor protection project together. You don’t need an account to request samples or get a quote. You apply for an account when you’re ready for ongoing pricing access, repeat orders without re-quoting, and direct contact with our specification team.
Questions about whether your organization qualifies? Email sales@superiorglide.com or call 407-347-3219. For broader specification reference, see Hospitality Design.
Quick answers about commercial furniture floor protection for buyers, facility managers, and procurement teams.
Tell us about your project: what you’re protecting, what furniture, what floors, and rough quantities. We’ll ship a curated set of samples within 24 business hours. We pick the samples based on what we’d actually recommend for your application, not a generic sample box. Free for verified businesses.
Volume pricing starts at Bulk pricing, with deeper discounts at 200+ and 1,000+. For custom project quotes on large orders, contact our team at sales@superiorglide.com or call 407-347-3219.
Stock items ship promptly from order approval. Custom sizes, custom colors, or large orders that exceed standing inventory get a confirmed lead time in writing before you commit.
Yes, and you don’t need to guess. Tell us about your furniture, your floor, and how the space is used, and our specification team sends a written recommendation. You can also try the Find Your Glide advisor for instant results, or call us directly at 407-347-3219.
Click “Apply for Business Access” or visit the registration page. Approval typically takes 1–2 business days. Once approved, you’ll see volume pricing on every product page, gain access to bulk ordering tools, and get direct support contact.
Yes, on bulk projects. Custom sizes and custom colors are available with confirmed lead times. Contact us with your specifications.
For approved business accounts on qualifying orders, yes. Apply for a business account first, then talk to our team about payment terms during the quote conversation.
Yes. Multi-site rollouts and drop shipments to individual properties are common requests. Tell us how you want it handled when we quote the project.
ABOUT THIS BUSINESS
Superior Glide is operated by Infinifi LLC, based in Winter Garden, Florida. All commercial furniture floor protection orders ship from our Florida warehouse. Reach our team at sales@superiorglide.com or support@superiorglide.com, or call 407-347-3219, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 Eastern.
Tell us about your commercial furniture floor protection project. Free samples shipped within 24 business hours. Project quotes back within one business day.
Or call us directly: 407-347-3219 · sales@superiorglide.com
