That scratch on your hardwood. The chair that screeches every time someone stands up. The wobble that never goes away. It all comes down to one thing: a cheap furniture glide that was never built for the job.
Superior Glide makes commercial-grade glides, slides, pads, leveling feet, plugs, and sled base glides for every floor type and every leg shape — the same products trusted by resort properties and restaurant chains, now available for your home.
Felt pads from the hardware store flatten within weeks. The adhesive lets go. Plastic chair glides crack under the weight of a person sitting down. Nail-on glides split the wood because they use a solid pin instead of a proper fastener.
This isn’t bad luck. It’s bad engineering. The entire furniture glide category was designed around cost, not performance. Most products on the shelf use the cheapest materials, the weakest adhesives, and a single round shape that doesn’t match half the furniture it’s sold for.
So people assume that’s just how glides work — temporary, disposable, not worth thinking about. Until the floor gets scratched.
We asked a different question: what if the glide was actually engineered to last?
OUR APPROACH
When you study why glides fail — across homes, hotels, and restaurants — it comes down to four things. We solved each one.
Most glides bond the sliding surface to the platform with a single drop of hot melt in the center. Under daily use, it separates — leaving the nail exposed on your floor. We use superglue bonded across all edges, on an ABS platform (the same high-impact plastic used in automotive parts). See our product guides for the full material breakdown.
A round glide on a square leg leaves the corners exposed. An undersized pad concentrates all the weight on a smaller area. We make round, square, and rectangular glides across every size range because the fit matters as much as the material. Not sure which you need? Try our Product Finder.
WHERE WE’RE INSTALLED
Our products were developed for environments where furniture moves hundreds of times a day — not once a week. If a glide can handle a resort lobby or a restaurant dining room, it can handle your kitchen.
Lobby stools and lounge chairs get repositioned constantly by guests and staff. Cheap fittings loosen within weeks. Sliding surfaces grind grit into marble and porcelain tile. Our glides are installed across major Orlando-area resort properties where floor damage is a maintenance line item they can’t afford.
Dining chairs take angled force, uneven loads, and constant dragging across hard floors. Felt pads last weeks in this environment. Plastic discs crack. Our slides and glides are built for exactly this kind of daily abuse.
You notice the scratch that wasn’t there last week. The chair that never sits flat. The sound that makes the kitchen feel louder than it should. You bought the felt pads from the hardware store and they lasted two months. Our products are built for people who are done replacing the same part over and over.
You manage hundreds of chairs across properties where small failures add up fast. Stability, quiet movement, and long service life aren’t nice-to-haves — they’re operating requirements. Our business program includes volume pricing, project quoting, and dedicated support.
Refinishing hardwood costs $3 to $8 per square foot. A single room can run $1,500 or more. A single furniture glide costs a few dollars.
The math only works if the glide actually does its job. That’s what we build around: the right product, matched to the right floor, installed without compromise.
Engineering over shortcuts — every material chosen for a reason.
Clear guidance over guesswork. Use our Product Guides to get the right fit the first time.
Products built for how furniture actually moves — not how it looks on a shelf.
Pick the right product by floor type, leg shape, and how your furniture is used — and stop dealing with the same problems.
Outfitting a restaurant, hotel, or office? See our business solutions or contact our team.
