I got a chairmat. It’s a nice big 43x60, medium pile, and it ran me about 60 dollars. I was thinking this would be a nice high quality mat, but after sitting in position for a while (chair + me < 200 lbs), the casters form dents which make it difficult to move around, thus defeating the purpose of the mat.
So did I get ripped off? Are there better quality mats available? Or do I have to resort to using something like a peice of plywood…haha.
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Guess it’s too specific, or maybe nobody has any experience with chairmats, or maybe people don’t like me. Who cares. I’m just gonna stick with the mat, I guess it’s not that bad.
Jeez, I’ll chime in just to save you some of the embarrassment.
I think your problem is a function of the carpet. I have a chairmat and it has pretty bad dents as well. I never had this problem in the corporate world, but of course the carpet used is pretty thin. I don’t think you’ll be able to do better.
Also when you said ripped off, I didn’t think it was going to be as mundane as a chairmat. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t like you. However, I don’t dislike you either. In fact, I don’t even know you. 
Well, thanks I guess. Yeah I sorta figured that would be it, but I was hoping that when they said made for medium pile carpets they meant that and not made for low pile carpets. It’s a decent enough mat, definately better than my old one.
Yeah, sorry for the misleading title, but $60 is more to some people than it is to others and I hate wasting any amount of money.
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*in an astonishing display of Sherlock Holmesian deductions:
)I always really hated those mats, never met one that did anything positive for me or my variety of subhumanly badly constructed excuses for chairs.
Can’t you just tell I’m having a GREAT day? 
I think it’s probably possible to make a chairmat that fits your individual needs, but odds are it won’t fit anyone else.
For instance, my mother had this really small one to protect her wooden floor and she was happy with it. I’d curse it to hell and back whenever I had to work at her desk, since I like to roll around in my chair and I kept rolling right off the edge. It was a total bitch to get back up over the edge with the small wheels, so it meant I had to stop rolling and sit at an uncomfortable angle or get up and move the damn chair back onto the mat. Oh the pain.
I’ve only once used one on top of a carpet, and it was a singular disaster from beginning to end. The owner of this ridiculous setup failed to notice that one could not roll at all (similar to the OP). The damn chair dug itself into the soft mat and carpet below, rendering the wheels of the chair unusable.
So my advice is basically this: get a chair with no wheels or get rid of the carpet. The two just don’t mix 
I’m going to crawl into bed with a bottle of vodka and a large knife now.
— G. Raven
Well, that makes my problems seem insignificant. Just don’t do anything drastic Morrison’s Lament.
As for your suggested options, I live in an apartment, so I gotta keep the carpet, and the wheels on this chair stay. I paid, well, a lot of money, for the best chair in the world (I know, you probably think this contradicts what I said earlier about wasting money, but this chair is worth it - Herman Miller Aeron), so I’m not gonna take the wheels off. Besides, the point is to be able to move around.
I’ll just wait till I get that hardwood floor apartment. [Homer]Mmmmm…Hardwood floor[/Homer]
Oh, yeah - chairmat
Sorry, no camera so I can’t post pictures of my chairmat.