Review on Round 1 Inch Chair Sliders / Furniture Glide Floor Protectors (Set Of 8) Screw-On Or Self-Adhesive GorillaGlides CB253 For Carpet And Hard Surface Floors by Chris Reddick

I first reviewed these Gorilla Glides chair feet in April, two months ago, finding that they just wouldn’t stay stuck to the chair legs, which makes ‘em useless at least to me; but I gave ‘em two stars rating instead of one ‘cause they seemed to glide fairly well over our tile floor considering the coarse, unglazed surface of our tile. You can see that original review following/below.However, now in June 2021, two months later, I’ve tried some other chair feet/glides, of the kind that have an embedded thin nail to hold the feet in place. I supplemented the nail attachment with some Duco cement, and am now fairly optimistic that those feet will stay attached in place. But, even more importantly here, those feet/glides with the nails as I used happen also to have teflon glide surfaces, instead of whatever different plastic foot is on these Gorillas. And wow, those teflon feet glide way, way better on our tile floor than these Gorillas do, despite the coarseness of the floor tile surface. In other words, these Gorilla Glides not only don’t stick to the chair legs, they also glide very poorly on the floor, certainly compared to the teflon glides.And to really rub it in, these Gorillas, which do nothing well, cost more than two times as much as the nail+teflon glides, which seem to do everything well.So again, after all, these Gorilla Glides don’t do anything well. Therefore now hereby demoted from 2 stars to 1 star.—— here below is my original 2-star review of these Gorilla Glides ———— from 2 months ago, April 2021 ——We wanted feet for our traditional hardwood dining chairs that would allow them to better glide over our unglazed, therefore coarse-surfaced tile floor. And we didn’t want to compromise the wooden chair legs by driving screws or nails up into their ends.We figured these Gorilla glides should be good, especially for the stick-on part of the job, ‘cause Gorilla has such a big rep. in the glue and adhesives business. And they cost twice as much as the competition, which we stupidly fantasized signaled a premium quality product. So we got ‘em.The good news is that they do the gliding part of the job fairly well, not great, but, like I said, our tile floors are coarse-surfaced, intentionally, to prevent people from slipping and falling, so these Gorilla glides might be as good as it gets with respect to gliding on/over the floor. Whether the Gorilla glide surface is reasonably durable or is going to wear down and through with continued use is a separate question - and one to which we will likely never know the answer because .The bad news is that these Gorilla glides just don’t and won’t stay stuck in place with the adhesive on the bottom/end of the chair leg, even after scrupulously cleaning and prepping the chair leg ends, won’t stay even for a few dinners’ worth of very light use. I keep trying to shove ‘em back to the middle/center of the chair leg, it’s hard work, but they just keep sliding back out of place, clearly gonna’ slide right off as soon as I quit tending them, re-placing (forcefully re-positioning) them every few days.So I hereby give up on trying to make these Gorilla glides work. Not yet certain what I’m gonna’ do instead. I might experiment with other supposedly really good, strong adhesives, see if any of them can keep these Gorilla feet in place on the chair legs. Or maybe I’ll bite the bullet and try some glide feet that use a single very slender, thin nail (plus adhesive) to keep each glide in place.Meanwhile, to these Gorilla glides that only work at all as long as you laboriously re-work ‘em every few days, I give 2 stars.And, I just noticed, Gorilla has just stopped selling their 1.25-inch diameter glide here, the size I bought and want and need. Certainly not that I want them anyway at this point, but they’re really putting the nails in the coffin here.