Ships nationwide · In-stock and made-to-order sizes
Ships nationwide · In-stock and made-to-order sizes
Every quote from Superior Glide arrives as a written specification: the product, the size, and the mounting method for your floors and your furniture. It is the process behind some of Orlando’s hardest-working hospitality floors, and it starts with free samples.
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Numbers first, adjectives later. These are the working conditions this catalog is bought for.
One resort lobby ran four glide designs on the same children’s stools before the failure stopped.
A busy dining section drags each chair about 200 times a day — 73,000 a year, on the same four contact points.
Glides, slides, pads, tube plugs, leveling feet and sled base glides cover a property’s whole furniture estate.
You deal with one named person. Whoever reviews your first samples handles the reorders.
A flagship Orlando-area resort had stools failing in the children’s area of a lobby. Not the furniture: the glides. Four designs went onto the same stools, in the same room, under the same abuse.
Wore down across the carpeted transition areas. When they came off, the screws had to be dug out of the legs, and the legs kept the damage.
Failure mode: abrasion, then fastener damage on removal.
Commodity glides on one driven nail each. Repeated sideways force snapped them off and left exposed nails in the leg bottoms, pointed at the floor.
Failure mode: shear at the single fastener.
Wore down quickly and broke at the attachment point — the same failure as before with a different label, accelerated by the carpet fibers.
Failure mode: material too soft for the fiber it crosses.
What we specified. A hard face selected for the mix of tile and carpet, bonded across the whole leg base with no nail to snap, and enough grip that a stool does not shoot out from under a child.
Still in service.
The lesson has held on every project since. A glide that works on hardwood will not automatically work on carpet, and the reverse is just as true. Specify to the floor, not to the catalog photo.
Floor-care bodies argue the same from their side of the industry: the National Wood Flooring Association’s care guidance treats protectors under every furniture leg as basic maintenance for a wood floor, at woodfloors.org.
The common assumption is that a Teflon glide slides forever. At home it often does. In a working dining room the material arithmetic runs the other way, and it is measurable.
Relative comparison, illustrative — Shore D and Rockwell R are different scales. The point is the order, not the arithmetic: a face softer than the fiber is sanded away by it.
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Built on exactly this hardness principle, with nail-on and adhesive mounting.
A low-friction face that meets sealed wood, tile and vinyl without marking them.
The materials reasoning continues in the furniture slides guide, including what is inside each slide and why the mounting matters as much as the face.
No retail funnel and no generic intake form. Three steps, each one producing something in writing.
The request form, or an email to sales@. Describe what you are protecting: the furniture, the floors, how the space is used, and rough quantities.
We review the project and ship the samples we would actually specify, free for verified businesses. The shipment names the product, size and mounting method in writing.
Ready-to-order sizes move promptly on approval. Larger and custom orders get a confirmed lead time in writing before you commit, and multi-site rollouts are handled on request.
Everything lands in writing — the recommendation, the price, the lead time. If a number is not written down, you should not have to plan around it, so we do not ask you to.
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Each card reflects real orders, not personas. Find your building and start where it points.
A 600-chair ballroom turned four times a day multiplies one bad glide by every cycle. We specify by room type, from ballroom stacks to lobby seating.
The 200-drags-a-day environment from the case study above. Hard-faced slides for carpeted dining, glides for tile and wood, plugs for tube-leg chairs.
Protect what you just installed. Handover packs for finished projects, spec sheets your customers can keep, and a fresh quote on every repeat run.
Task seating, conference rooms, council chambers and assembly halls. Specifications that survive heavy use and procurement review alike.
A classroom moves its chairs fifty times a day for nine months a year, and most of those chairs stand on hollow tube legs. Tell us the room count and we will quote it.
Bedside tables, dining chairs, transfer seating. Quiet movement matters here, and so does flooring that is expensive to repair.
These six sectors are the intended children of the Business mega menu — each one becomes its own page when you are ready.
Four reasons that survive procurement scrutiny, none of them a slogan.
Commercial projects are quoted, never priced off a shelf. Tell us the quantities and the numbers arrive written down, so budgets can be planned around them.
Every quote names the product, the size, the face material and the mounting for your exact floors and furniture. You approve a spec, not a guess.
Ready-to-order sizes move promptly on approval; anything larger or custom gets a confirmed lead time before you commit. No windows we cannot meet.
Every project gets a direct specification contact. No queue and no chatbot: the person who reviewed the first samples handles the repeat orders.
There is nothing to sign up for. It starts with a sample conversation and a written quote, and the pricing carries forward from there.
Request free samples or a project quote, or email sales@superiorglide.com with your organization and what you buy.
A person reads it, not a filter. If anything is unclear we ask, and the written quote comes back by email.
Your quote is written up in full and kept on file, and the first order usually follows straight from the sample conversation.
The buying mechanics for commercial customers. Product questions live in the product guides.
Describe the project: the furniture, the floors, how the space is used, rough quantities. We ship the samples we would actually specify for it, free for verified businesses, and every shipment includes the written recommendation. It is a working proposal you can put on a desk, not a generic sample box.
It scales with quantity, and larger orders price better. We quote in writing before you commit so the numbers can go into a budget as-is. For large or unusual projects, email sales@superiorglide.com with the quantities and we price the whole structure at once.
Stock items ship promptly once an order is approved. Custom sizes, custom colors and orders beyond standing inventory get a confirmed lead time in writing before you commit. We do not give estimated windows we cannot meet, which occasionally means the honest number is longer than a competitor’s guess.
That is the core of the service. Send what you know about the furniture, the floor and the traffic, and the specification team returns a written recommendation naming the product, size, face material and mounting. It comes with every sample shipment at no charge.
On qualifying bulk projects, yes, with confirmed lead times. Send the specification and the volume and we confirm feasibility before anything is promised. Custom work follows a first standard order more often than it leads one.
On qualifying orders, yes. Raise billing during the first project conversation so terms are settled before the first large order, not during it.
Both are routine. Tell us how you want it structured: one delivery per property, staged waves, or a single central shipment. We confirm what is possible in writing before you commit to an order structure.
Yes, and it is a priority for us. Handover packs for finished installations, spec sheets branded for your customer file, and quotes that move faster once we know your spec. Email sales@superiorglide.com with your typical project profile and we will build the specification around it.
Furniture, floors, traffic and rough quantities is all it takes. Samples ship free to verified businesses, the recommendation arrives in writing, and the quote follows it.
Superior Glide is operated by Infinifi LLC d/b/a Superior Glide, Winter Garden, Florida. Orders ship from the United States. Business enquiries: sales@superiorglide.com.
Every size, in one place
Dimensions, materials, load ratings and part numbers for the whole range: glides, slides, pads, tube plugs, threaded inserts, leveling feet and sled base glides. Millimeters and inches side by side, with a drawing for every part.
