Office Chair Mat for Carpet, Computer Desk Chair Mat for Carpeted Floors, Easy Glide in Office or Home with Extended Lip (36” x 48”)

I purchased this in 2019 and just now needing to replace! It has worked well for being on carpet under my son’s desk. He spends lots of time there playing video games and moving back and forth! This may did crack and break in the center where he moves the most, desk chair has wheels! I am reordering because this may seemed to last longer than any others in this process range has lasted

Got worried as it arrives rolled up and clearly wants to stay that way. Spread it out with books on a Friday afternoon and by Monday morning it was ready to work. Very happy with the results, no cracking or creaking, like the last one. Hon makes excellent office products that are worth any extra in price as they are durable and last.

This is packaged rolled up. It takes a little effort to unroll, but it does flatten mostly after a few days. It's more flexible than other chair mats I have purchased, which over a few years have cracked. Time will tell if this holds up to use over carpet. It retains divots where your chair wheels are, and keeps it from rolling smoothly.

For some reason the manufacturer or distributor opted to have this product rolled up and shipped as a tube. This may not sound like a big deal since hey, most mat-like items probably ship that way. However, given that this item is made of such a tough plastic this creates two major hurdles: The first hurdle is that unrolling it to lay down is borderline impossible, and is definitely impossible as a single individual. The material is so rigid and is fighting so hard to return to its original tube-shape that it is pulling against you with incredible force as you try to unravel it. Meaning that if you release it at all it snaps back into its tube shape. It took me and the wife working together just to get this thing unrolled to lay on the ground without it violently springing back into a tube shape. The second and more damning hurdle is that it means this thing is never going to be flat. After the battle to get this thing laid down on the floor we tried standing on either edge to try and get it to flatten and you can feel it constantly fighting against you. I have now had this down under my computer chair for two months and both sides are STILL raised/curled because the only way you could really flatten them and keep them flat would likely be to lay a heavy beam on either side to leave it for days until its shape changes. Otherwise it's a pretty standard hard-plastic desk mat with gripping teeth on the bottom. No better or worse than any other one I have had. If they just shipped this thing flat it would be fine.

How frail and restless is the life of toil — this daily dance of the chair across the dim plains of the carpet, its wheels catching like thoughts upon regrets! Yet upon that weary battlefield now lies a savior: the HON Office Chair Mat, a clear, glimmering shield of civility stretched beneath the weight of industry. Its surface — smooth as glass, yet resolute as the frozen tarns of winter — invites motion untroubled by friction or fate. Beneath the chair’s ceaseless revolutions, the mat remains steadfast, uncomplaining; its transparency reveals the woven darkness of the carpet below, yet never succumbs to it. It is the silent companion of endurance — the mute witness to midnight labors and unspoken frustrations. The extended lip, reaching out like a hesitant hand beneath the desk’s shadow, protects that hidden expanse where the human form bends most humbly to its work. One might call it a gesture of grace — the mat offering itself to guard even the unseen, the disregarded corners of existence. In its unassuming rectangle lies a strange poetry: the triumph of order over wear, of clarity over the slow erosion of tread and time. It speaks not loudly, but with the quiet dignity of something that serves, that suffers, and that endures. Thus the HON Chair Mat, plain though it seems, becomes a symbol of steadfastness — the invisible foundation upon which weary dreamers roll toward their endless tasks.

While this mat will likely protect your carpet in the long-run, the other aspects of this made me wish I would have gone with another brand. First, as most mentioned, getting this to lay flat is hard. The packaging size makes it so the mat needs to be tightly rolled, which is further exacerbated by the cold weather. I have had 50lb weights on it for two days, and it is still curling. Im sure this will go away after some time, but holy cow is this unnecessarily annoying. However, for me, the biggest con of this product is the size. While it boasts about having an extended size for your feet, do you really need protection from the chair there? The mat is EXTREMELY small for what I would think a product like this should be. If you literally never roll around in your chair, this will be okay, but otherwise, any small roll left/right/back will have your chair rolling off the mat onto the carpet, which then snags on the mat because its likely not fully flat as previously discussed. Lastly, a minor issue is that this mat just seems like very thin plastic. After sitting in the same position for ~30 seconds, there are massive divots in the mat and my carpet (which is low pile, so it shouldnt imprint into as much as it is) which make moving harder. All in all, if this product was $20 or $30 I would just be upset and move on. However, for approx $50, these issues should not be happening. I will be asking for a refund on this product and finding a bigger, sturdier one elsewhere.

Nice mat! Not too hard to unroll and lays flat.

Everything good.