Abstract: This disclosure relates to a pad for protecting floors against water damage from washers, dryers or like appliances including a generally polygonally contoured peripheral wall having upper and lower terminal edges, the latter of which are adapted to rest upon a floor and the upper of which defines an interior within which is adapted to be disposed the lower end portion of a washer, dryer or the like, a supporting ledge inboard of the peripheral wall upon which legs of the appliance rest, and a chamber within and slightly beneath the ledge within which any water spilled or leaked from a washer, dryer or like appliance may be collected or drained therefrom.