How To Flatten My New Rug

How to flatten an area rug that has been rolled up.

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. Why new rugs are wrinkled and creased. When you get home and try to lay it down where you would like it it will want to roll back up. I put my textile college degree to work to come up with a solution.

If the ends of a large rug curl upwards you can place the rug in your room upside down. But then you can turn it right side up and it should lay flat. 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. 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.

Leave the rug rolled up for about an hour and unroll it to see if the rug will lay flat. Here s a quick fix to smooth out the wrinkles safely quickly and easily. Unrolling the rug. In this video we ll show you how to uncurl your brand new rug.

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. How to flatten a new rug. After being rolled for so long new rugs might not look so good right out of the package.

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. Reverse rolling works well for curling corners on a new area rug. How to flatten a rug with curled corners.

Leave the heavy items on the rug for. Once you unroll the rug. Press the tape down firmly smoothing it as you go. Normally these rugs have been rolled up for quite some time.

Weigh down the corners with books or furniture.