Large Chair Mat for Carpet, Easy Glide Plastic Carpet Floor Protector Mat for Office Chairs for Work & Home (45" x 53" with lid, for Carpeted Floors)

Works well and serves its purpose

This mat is completely terrible! It takes forever to actually flatten out after you unroll it and your chair doesn't really roll on it because it is softer material. If you have a rolling chair, the casters actually make indents in this crappy plastic. It is really poorly made, poorly designed, not the right material for a rolling chair mat. There are just no two ways about it. This is a completely useless product and I have to get another one.

When this arrived rolled up, I was a little dubious that it would unroll, but I sat it by our baseboard heater for a few days, and with some elbow grease, it unrolled. Once it was unrolled and rested flat for a while, installing it was pretty easy. I recommend wearing thick gloves (I used oven mitts) when setting it up, because the spines that hold it to the carpet are sharp enough to be annoying. I've only had it for a few days, but it looks to be really high quality and I don't think I'm going to need to replace it for a long long time!

The Large Chair Mat for Carpet works well in our office and helps protect the carpet. The chair glides smoothly most of the time, though the wheels can occasionally create small dents that the chair rolls back into. Overall, it still does its job and is a good floor protector.

I would buy a thicker mat. This mat is 0.1" thick and that is not thick enough to prevent the chair wheels from sinking in so the chair no longer moves freely. I am 160 lbs The chair has 5 castor wheels. The carpet is standard office carpet (not plush or thick). After about 1 hour the wheels sink in so the chair no long moves freely on the mat. This did not happen with my previous mat which I had to replace after about 20 years.

After a couple of weeks I still have bumps in the mat that haven't smoothed out yet. I ordered this because the size was perfect. I did what the instructions say to do before rolling out, and I still have bumps to roll over. The thickness is about half of the good quality mats out there. You do get what you pay for.

I know people have struggled to unroll this. But this may help someone. 1.Take it out of the box & remove ties. 2. Place it in full sun (outside if possible). Let set for an hour. 3. Get at least 3 heavy items (brick). Try to unroll it bristles up as far as you can. 4. Let heat up more going back in an hour; repeat process. 5. When it's completely enroll; flip it over then put heavy item on the corners again. 6. Let heat up in the sun again. Try to flatten; it won't be perfect but you can now use it under your chair.

Great, sharp on the bottom, piece of plastic. We use this one by our backdoor to protect our new carpet. Took a while to lay flat. We sat it out in the hot sun for a bit before using. We didn't notice any off putting smell. Highly recommend it!

It comes rolled up and is very very very hard. You have to warm it to unroll it. The spikes on the back make that difficult and painful. It takes 2 people to unroll it I had mine as pinned as possible against the radiator trying to soften it. It is still not flat. I believe Argos do a flat pack one at half the price!