How can I get the indents, made from heavy furniture, out of my carpet?

Question

After 6 years, I decided to change my living room around. Horror! My carpet has got 4 huge indents in it, made from coffee table. Will I ever be able to use it again in a different place? How can I get rid of the indents?

Answer 1

Steaming always works for me. You can use a carpet cleaner and immediately 'fluff' each area w/ a comb or brush. If that is not an option you can follow this 'home remedy'. Good Luck!

You will need a towel, a steam iron a small comb or brush. You might need a 1:5 mixture of vinegar:water in a spray bottle.

Heat up your iron making sure there is plenty of water for steam. When the iron is hot, use the towel to protect the carpet, gently steam the area. If you have a burst of steam button that is even better. You do not set the iron ON the towel but VERY close to it. So that the steam is penetrating the carpet. Then use the comb or brush to pull the carpet fibers back up. If it is really stubborn, you can spray the carpet w/the vinegar solution before you steam it. PLEASE remember to test the vinegar solution on a small area to make sure that it does not discolor your carpet.

Answer 2

An ice cube might help some, but I doubt it will help much. What has happened is that the cushioned padding underneath the carpet has been compressed for so long that it tends to want to stay in that formation. That padding is made out of plastic foam. Plastic foam has what is called memory. Memory is just a technical way of saying that it wants to return to its original shape. The plastic maintains memory through the orientation of the molecules. However, the longer your foam remains compressed the more the cushioning will lose its memory or ability to return to its original flat shape. Not only is your pad now compressed, but your carpet fibers are also stretched. This is where the cold of the ice cube over the dent might help. The cold could help shrink the carpet fibers in that spot helping to reduce the stretch and partially take out the indent. As far as the padding, give it time and it should come back some but not fully. If it is adhesive padding you might be able to use a vaccuum on it and try stretching the padding out some to get it to come back.

In the future, I'd recommend using furniture blocks. They have spikes underneath them that protrude through the carpeting and padding to the solid flooring beneath. This rests the weight of the furniture on the flooring and not on the carpet and carpet padding. So you avoid stretching the carpet fibers and compressing the padding for a long period of time. If you use those you shouldn't get permanent indentations on your carpet.

Answer 3

I have never done it but have been told loads of times just like what every one else is sayin, ice cubes! But pick up the pile with a copper coin, dont know why copper coin but thats what i heard.

i wouldnt try it on a light colour carpet!

Answer 4

and if all that ice doesn't work, try steam. hold an iron well above the indentions and allow the moist steam to mist the areas....then rub with your hand to 'fluff' the fibers. Steam cleaning and fluffing would have the same effect.

Answer 5

Icecubes should do the trick! Put them in all 4 indents and after you should not have them anymore! Good Luck to you!





















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Answer 6

Use the ice cubes the others have told you about, and also to add to their answers use a toothbrush after the ice melts. It brings the fibers make to shape.

Answer 7

positioned ice cubes on the spots and enable the carpet absorbe the water ..i attempted it as quickly as and it did actually paintings..think approximately to do it some cases and then additionally sit down the vacume over the spot some cases it would pull up..

Answer 8

Place an ice cube on the dent, it should rise up when it dries, brush the pile up with a brush.

Answer 9

Use ice cubes in a food bag

Answer 10

Sometimes putting ice cubes in the dimples works. just let them melt, they are supposed to give the fibres moisture