As the title above says: I need a chair mat. Preferably something that doesn’t look gross. My chair is chewing up and chipping out vinyl floor. The best solution is to replace the floor entirely with something… less stupid, but budgets being what they are, I’m getting a chair mat for now.
I don’t want anything with spikes on the bottom. It has to be good for hard floors.
Otherwise, hook me up with any recommendations you might have! This is not an easy product category to shop for.
Maybe this:
Sadly all the products referenced in that thread are discontinued (or appear that way). Like I said, this is a hard product category!
You have probably seen this and you’re not in the US if I remember correctly, but I certainly didn’t know there was a company totally devoted to floor mats. 
Cool! Your memory is good; I’m not American. Usually that works out in my favour, but in this case… great resource though! Thanks for sharing.
I’d also (if I were you) look to change the wheels on your chair for something more like a Roller Blade wheel.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B092Q2P1CW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
I bought these and have never looked back.
I’ve had this chair in several living spaces and many floor types and the wheels have never so much as scratched a floor before. It’s just crappy vinyl, and it peels and cracks virtually on its own, so nothing will save it from wheels unfortunately. We’ve already had to replace pieces of this floor a handful of times in multiple living spaces downstairs, so… yeah.
I’ve had this one for two years and I’ve been really happy with it.
My vinyl planks were not doing too well so I went with this one from Office Depot.
https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/8144330/Realspace-Bamboo-Chair-Mat-48-x/
I’ve heard of these! How are they holding up? I’ve heard the seams of these can chip as well?
Ended up ordering this one, because it was highly recommended by a bunch of you and available via Amazon Canada (yay!). Thanks for the input!
Thanks to the recommendations here, I just changed my wheels for roller-blade-style wheels. They are great so far — I don’t know why Herman Miller doesn’t sell this as an option! I purchased mine from Office Logix because I could also get replacement arm rests, but lots of places have them.
That looks nice. Does it shift around much when you roll the chair on and off of it?
I have an Uplift desk and I move the chair off when I stand and put it back on the mat when I sit.
My current hard plastic mat shifts on the carpet and I have to adjust it a few timed a day.
Which one did you get? The tempered glass over out the bamboo one?
I got the tempered glass one linked earlier in the thread. I’ve had it a bit over a year. It’s good at keeping my floor from getting damaged, but dust and dirt collects underneath it, and you can see it below your feet. It’s heavy to lift, which makes cleaning it very inconvenient. And it’s small, which means if you want to move from one area of a large desk to another, you can’t.
Were it not for my floor being poorly installed (my own fault), I wouldn’t need this and wouldn’t recommend it. If you’re just worried about getting scuffs on the floor, you’re better off living your life and not worrying about it.
Mine did shift on the carpet. I bought these from Amazon to keep it in place, and they worked well.
Assuming you have hard floors, what if you put a rug under it? Give a little flair too 
I have this one in my office
Thanks! btw my glass mat arrived and I love that it doesn’t deform from the pressure of the chair wheels. That makes it easier to roll the chair around.
it hasn’t shifted yet, but I’ll grab a some of those “gripper” things that you linked just in case.
A bonus benefit for me is that I have mats in my home gym that shift over the carpet they lay one. I’ll try the grippers on those, too.
Update - I got the 60” by 48” tempered glass mat today for my main desk. It’s also working great.
I ended up getting one of their mats earlier this year.
I was using some clear plastic things from Amazon before. Had 2 of them next to each other for about 8 years (covering 2 desk on opposite walls). They shifted constantly and were starting to crack. They were fine, but having to reorient them once or twice a week was annoying.
I didn’t want to pay for the glass or deal with its heaviness, so I went with a clear plastic one from American Floor Mats when they had a sale. I bought a huge thing that could cover both desk. It came rolled up, which was surprising, and it took a few days for it to really flatten out.
It is a clear plastic, but kind of soft, so the chair does sink into it, which is annoying, but if I move the chair it springs back in a few minutes. It doesn’t shift at all though, which is important to me. It stays put and the corners never pull up from the weight of the chair like my old ones did.
I would recommend it, but I am sure the sinking in would drive a lot of people nuts. I have very thick carpet though, so that doesn’t help.
