How To Get A Area Rug To Lay Flat

Normally these rugs have been rolled up for quite some time.

How to get a area rug to lay flat.

Remove the area rug from the floor and place it between your mattress and box spring. Lay the rug back down and press the edges into the floor. Lay the gripper pad on the floor where you want the throw rug. Lay the throw rug wrong side down on top of the gripper pad.

Remove the gripper pad. Plain brown craft paper over the rug protects it from the iron. The rubber backing keeps the edge of the rug from being pushed up and causing a fall. Make sure it lies completely flat and leave it for at least a week before you check the result.

When you get home and try to lay it down where you would like it it will want to roll back up. Tightly roll up the rug and secure it with a piece of twine. Roll the edge of the rug up and place the backing on it. It was a great size for my small office space underneath my desk.

Lay the gripper pad on top of the rug. Leave the rug rolled up for about an hour and unroll it to see if the rug will lay flat. Mark on each side of the gripper pad. This method should work for rugs that are badly curled at the corners but the rug obviously needs to be the size of the bed or smaller for the best results.

Measure in 1 2 inch from the edge of the rug. Cut a strip of rubber backing for rugs using a pair of scissors. When laying the rug over carpet however the concern is more about the rug wrinkling or rippling which presents a big tripping hazard wrinkling will occur because as one area of the rug is stepped on it will shift assuming it is not properly. Cut around each side on the marks you made.

Whenever you order or buy a new rug assuming is has some size to it you will get the rug in a roll. The carpet in that room is a neutral read boring beige i wanted to use a black and white check area rug that i bought from ikea several years ago. When laying an area rug over a hard surface such as hardwood flooring the biggest concern about the rug s movement is that it will slide around. If the rug still doesn t want to lie flat after a few days help it out by ironing the curled areas on a low setting.