Hi - thanks in advance for any advice you can give me. I'm renting a place with parquet floors. The tiles are starting to come up under my desk where my rolling office chair is. I had a rug over this area, and tried numerous different types of floor protectors but the tiles keep coming up. (Obviously I stopped rolling my chair back and forth a while ago to mitigate this.)
My question is what is the best way to go about fixing this? It's only maybe about 5 tiles that are pulled up. Should I try and get some more tiles from Home Depot and glue them down? I was also thinking maybe a sheet of plywood on the floor in that area just to cover things for now and shield the floor, but that's not a permanent solution and i'm worried that also may damage the floor further.
They make an under-desk floor protector that will work better than plywood. Probably found at an office store or online.
Are the tiles that came up ruined? You should be able to re-glue them with construction adhesive. Depending on the specific tiles they could be pretty hard to replace. Re-glue if you can and then yeah, floor protector.
Yeah sorry to say they're pretty messed up. I don't think they're going to go back together. Thank you for the advice, I think i'll go floor protector.
I would get a sheet of 1/4” or 3/16” plain hardboard and put that down for a cover. New tiles probably wouldn’t match perfectly. You could try to glue the current ones with construction adhesive first.