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There are a lot of handy helping aids that can be used to help you around the hone for easy cleaning and movement of furniture. Gliders are either plastic disks or squares you can place under heavy furniture that allows them to glide over your floors without scratching those precious wooded floors. Wheels tend to break easily especially with heavy furniture, use plastic ones that are scratch resistant and operate smoother than rubber ones. Ever get those nasty black skid marks from those rubber wheels, they may have been stuck up by gunk such as wax, pet hair, human hair and others that may have clogged up the sides of the wheels preventing them from turning. Get some turpentine to easily remove those black marks and clean the wheels to get them rolling properly.
Find a broken one, take it out and find plastic equivalents made of nylon or rubber that have bearings instead of a solid steel cylinder, they glide faster and move easier. Permanent wheels may be dangerous around kids where the risk of slipping and pinching is high, use removable sliders instead to keep them safe and those fingers healthy. Plastic outlet covers that covers unused ones from those inquisitive kids protects against shock and even death. They are cheap and quite easy to use and they’re really worth more than what they cost.

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