How To Flatten My New Rug

Weigh down the corners with books or furniture.

How to flatten my new rug.

Your new area rugged has been rolled up in a truck and a warehouse for who knows how long and likely at high temperatures. Carpet tape works on hard floors and on existing wall to wall carpet holding your rug in place to flatten existing creases and eliminate new ones. Rolling your rug in the opposite direction sometimes helps get rid of curls and allows the rug to lay flat. Unrolling the rug.

It will look odd for a week or two. I put my textile college degree to work to come up with a solution. Normally these rugs have been rolled up for quite some time. How to flatten a new rug.

How to flatten a rug with curled corners. If the ends of a large rug curl upwards you can place the rug in your room upside down. Press the tape down firmly smoothing it as you go. Step 2 lay your area rug on the floor and place heavy items like a stack of books on each corner of the rug.

Then remove the paper covering the adhesive and smooth the rug over the floor. After being rolled for so long new rugs might not look so good right out of the package. Reverse rolling works well for curling corners on a new area rug. Why new rugs are wrinkled and creased.

Apply this tape to the back of your rug. Whenever you order or buy a new rug assuming is has some size to it you will get the rug in a roll. Purchasing a new rug can be exciting as you give one room a partial makeover just by setting the rug on the floor with little effort required. But then you can turn it right side up and it should lay flat.

A new area rug or one that s been rolled up and tucked out of the way for a while gets used to its rolled shape over time. In this video we ll show you how to uncurl your brand new rug. How to flatten an area rug that has been rolled up. Once you unroll the rug.

Leave the heavy items on the rug for.