Help With a Rug

blueyedgirl5946

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I have hardwood floors in all bedrooms and living room. I have an oval rug that I used for a while under my dining room table and got tired of it. It is a wood rug, no backing. The wood manufacturer said use PVC scrim coated polyester protectors under olefin backed rugs on my floor. I am wondering if anyone has put a rug like this on a wood floor and if so what kind of backing did you use. Has it harmed your wood floor. My floors were manufactured by Hartco, now Armstrong. and are prefinished white oak. I am thinking about putting it under the end of the bed in my master bedroom.
 
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We have an oak floor in the living room with a wool Oriental rug. Instead of a rug pad, we got a roll of thin cork (usually used for insulation under laminate). It's perfect, and first had to be replaced after about 15 years.
 

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Not with a rug on hardwood, but our old linoleum in our kitchen. It was white with little red roses at the corners of the tiles. My MIL gave me a cute kitty rug one year for Christmas; she wanted me to put it on the kitchen floor, right inside the French door. Not quite a week later, I picked up the rug to wash the kitchen floor and something on the backing stained the heck out of the white floor. The area beneath the rug was a yellowish-brown. And it never came off. I tried everything, all kinds of cleaners, Mr. Clean's Magic Erasers, Bona, Soft Scrub. You name it, I tried it. That spot stayed yellowish-brown for the rest of the time we had that floor.

My MIL felt terrible, but sometimes things happen. I don't know what was on the underside of that rug, but it must have been nasty stuff to create that much damage in about a week.

I tend to be very careful when purchasing new rugs for the house.
 
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