Dining room table in room without carpet

[freshsqueezed]

We are installing new flooring. Our dining room will no longer have carpet (praise the lord) and we have a very large dining table. What does everyone put their table on? I’d prefer to have no carpet/rugs but I also don’t want the floor scratched. We put chair socks for the chair legs but I’m not sure what to do about the table?

[lessel]

I'd put some of those non-slip/gripper furniture pads under the table legs. Something to help keep it from scooting around. (Something like this in whatever size fits your table legs: smile.amazon.com/dp/B005XGOV7O)

What flooring are you installing? We have some glider feet that screw on to the chair legs our kitchen table's chairs, which I like a lot for ease of moving them... But I did notice they scratched the oak hardwood floors over time. (Like these, but different brand: smile.amazon.com/4Screw-Furniture-Glides-Sliders-Furniture-FURNIGEAR/dp/B07FH82D8J/)

[dr.girlfriend]

I usually have stick-on felt pads on smaller stuff like chairs, but I don't get the sense a big dining table would move enough to worry about it? I'll admit the felt pads are hit-or-miss -- they often end up upside down and stuck to the floor which is pretty much defeating the purpose. For a dining table though I can't imagine they could get unstuck enough to flip.

[freshsqueezed]

The issue is the table doesn’t just have legs. Maybe I can find a picture but the bottom has a large rail that spans nearly the whole table. For lack of a better word almost like a very large |-| shape.

ETA
OK hopefully you can see what I’m talking about as this is best I could find and I’m not sure how to upload a picture. The bottom rail on this doesn’t touch the ground though where I think ours might.
www.wayfair.com/One-Allium-Way®--Parkhur-Extendable-Dining-Table-X111205193-L147-K~W000194082.html?refid=GX528906354712-W000194082_1993630693&device=m&ptid=903348176138&network=g&targetid=pla-903348176138&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=113450259&fdid=1817&PiID%5B%5D=1993630693&gbraid=0AAAAAD9ISC5Sb8K1WwlZLC8gCxMqGh-YY&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmpyRBhC-ARIsABs2EAqekAyYggvq4k2_GgdJTHgsnc-JjeYoF3rj1TpaF-Qd_eczWDuKJJEaAjJwEALw_wcB

[Susie]

My dining room is a work in progress, but we have a 9x12 Ruggable under the table.  I probably won't wash it often because it's a pain, but it's nice to know I can.

Before we had the rug, we had felt pads on the chairs, but nothing under the table legs.  Our floors are cherry HW.

[af1212]

I have only lived in places with hardwood floors and I have never had a rug under my table. We just put adhesive furniture pads on the feet of the table.

That’s what I would do in your situation.

[dr.girlfriend]

I would guess you could just put a few pads every few inches along that rail as well?

[freshsqueezed]

Mar 8, 2022 12:07:26 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

I would guess you could just put a few pads every few inches along that rail as well?

Yeah I’ll stick with that or I was thinking of cutting like a felt rug pad or something.

[lessel]

Mar 8, 2022 13:12:31 GMT -5 freshsqueezed said:

Mar 8, 2022 12:07:26 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

I would guess you could just put a few pads every few inches along that rail as well?

Yeah I’ll stick with that or I was thinking of cutting like a felt rug pad or something.

I think we've gotten them at Costco in a pack, but we've had felt pads that are just a large sheet that you can cut to size. So you could cut strips out of that.

[hbomdiggity]

nail in felt pads

[expectantsteelerfan]

I have my table directly on our hardwood floors and haven't had any issues with it scratching them (yet, lived here since this summer).

[bhnumbers]

I suggest using foam gripping pads like this www.amazon.com/Scotch-Gripping-1-5-Inch-Diameter-SP940-NA/dp/B00V7UD8ZQ/ref=asc_df_B00V7UD8ZQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193151859311&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14726027792822691528&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008166&hvtargid=pla-307853447209&th=1

That way the table won't slide out of place. You could space them out along the rails like the PP suggested.