Ships nationwide · In-stock and made-to-order sizes

For business · Hospitality, facilities, trade

Quiet chairs, level tables, floors that stay finished.

Parts that fit the leg, matched to the floor, for the people who look after a building full of chairs. Tell us the floor, the furniture and the count. We come back with a written recommendation and samples of the parts we suggest, then a quote at your quantity.

Hotel lounge with armchairs and side tables on a hardwood floor

Who this is for

Six kinds of building. One question in each of them.

Pick yours. Each page names the problem the way it shows up in your building, what goes under which leg, and how a project runs.

Hotels and resorts

Guest-facing noise and wobble across lounges, restaurants and ballrooms. Specified once, reordered by spec on the refurbishment cycle.

Restaurants and food service

A server shimming a table mid-service is the complaint that reaches the manager. Leveling feet answer it; slides handle the grout.

Flooring retailers and installers

The callback three months after a careful install is usually a felt pad full of grit. Hand the right part over at handover instead.

Offices and facilities

Nobody specified what goes under the chair legs at fit-out. A planned consumable with the spec on file, reordered by email.

Schools and universities

Stacking chairs, gym and cafeteria floors, and tennis balls on the legs. Planned in spring for the summer window.

Healthcare and senior living

Chair noise in a dining room is a resident-comfort issue, not a cosmetic one. Quiet parts for vinyl and LVT floors.

Marine, yachts and cruise

Anti-slip glides for furniture that must stay put when the deck moves. Teak, veneer and vinyl soles.

Dealers, designers and installers

A trade account puts the right part, sized to the leg, in your hands at handover.

Case studies

Two rooms, two failures, photographed as the parts came off the furniture.

Churches, event rental, property managers, home stagers, restorers: same form, same process. Start a project.

Why the part matters more than the pad

Every competitor sells a pad that goes under a leg. We sell a part built for a specific floor.

Four situations cover almost every building. Each one gets a different part, and putting the wrong one down is how floors get scratched with the protector still attached.

Smooth hard floors

Sealed hardwood, laminate, LVP and LVT, smooth tile and stone. A needle-punched PA6 face on a rigid ABS body, sized to the leg so the edge is less likely to catch. Glides for furniture that moves; pads for pieces that stay put.

Textured tile and grout lines

Grout overrides the tile finish. Even a glossy tile with wide joints catches a fiber face at every line. A hard ABS slide face crosses the joint instead of snagging on it.

Carpet and rugs

Commercial carpet fiber is harder than a PTFE glide, which is why the white slides wear flat in a season. The ABS face is harder than the fiber it crosses.

Wobbling tables and stands

Folded napkins under a table leg mean the problem is live. A threaded leveling foot with a floor-matched pad takes the wobble out and stays put.

What the record shows

Two rooms, two failures, one lesson.

Both from projects our team specified before the shop existed; the photographs are of the parts that came off the furniture. Read both case studies →

Restaurant dining room · commercial carpet

The white glide was softer than the carpet.

PTFE, the material in the standard white slide, sits around 50 to 60 on the Shore D scale. The nylon fiber in a commercial carpet, chosen for abrasion resistance, sits around 100 to 120 Rockwell R; polypropylene around 92. The glide was the softest thing in the room, so it wore instead of the floor. Four chairs were refitted with a hard-faced slide as the trial, with the heavier tables assessed next.

Hotel lobby · children’s stools

Three generations failed before the right one went on.

First a PTFE slide, which wore through on the carpet and left screws in the legs. Then a nail-on glide that snapped and left bare nails against the floor. Then a soft plastic glide that broke at the nail. The fourth, a self-adhesive hard-faced glide chosen for enough grip that a child cannot skate the stool away, is what went on.

How buying works

From first email to delivered order, in four steps.

Built for facility teams and procurement, and for a manager with twenty chairs and no time. Ordering and payment are arranged by email once the spec is agreed.

01  Tell us what you have

Floor type, furniture type, a rough count. A photo of a leg with a ruler beside it saves a round of email.

02  Samples and written spec

Free for businesses once we know those three things. Product, size, mounting and floor compatibility in writing; static load on request.

03  Quote at your quantity

The quote names the sizes that are in stock and the sizes that are made to order, with the ship date in writing.

04  Confirm and order

Reply to the quote and we set the order up by email, the way your business normally buys. Reorders run off the spec on file.

Straight answers

The business questions, answered before you ask.

If yours is not here, put it in the form and we answer it in writing.

How do we place the order?

Reply to the quote email. We confirm the details and send the order confirmation; payment and paperwork are handled with you directly by email.

Yes. Every quote comes with the product, size, mounting method, materials and floor compatibility in writing. Static load and material data sheets are available on request for a specifier or an architect.

For businesses, yes. Tell us the floor, the furniture and the quantity and we send samples of the recommended parts so you can check them on your own leg and floor. It is a business program; homeowners are better served by the size guides and the in-stock range.

Sizes marked In stock ship nationwide as soon as the order is placed. Project quantities in other sizes are produced in a run; the quote states the ship date in writing before you commit to anything.

That is what the samples are for. If a delivered order still turns out wrong, email us and we sort it out with you directly.

Often. Send the manufacturer and model and a photo of the leg base; we size to the leg, not to the brand, so a cross-reference is usually a five-minute job.

Ready when you are

Put the project in front of us.

Floor, furniture, count. We come back with the part, the size and a price you can take to whoever signs.

Every size, in one place

The Superior Glide product catalog

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.

Download the catalog PDF · 5 MB · September 2026 Or request free samples