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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cleanability on March 15, 2006, 01:10:08 pm

Title: indentations removal??
Post by: cleanability on March 15, 2006, 01:10:08 pm

Can long standing indentations from furniture on carpets be reversed? People always mention the use of ice. If they can, then how?

Thanx

Chris

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: lee_gundry on March 15, 2006, 01:35:52 pm

i did 12 marks from long standing furniture last week.


using a upholstery tool/stairs tool no 04 jet

turned up heat to 240 f

4/5 passes over dent dress pile with stiff brush
i had acid rinse through machine
dry with hair dryer.

result perfect.

Lee G

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: cleanability on March 15, 2006, 02:46:20 pm

briil thanx Lee !

Chris

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: Doug Holloway on March 15, 2006, 04:34:37 pm

Chris,

Water will lift some indentations , particularly on good quality wool carpets with a hessian backing.

Ice is just a way of getting water in the right place but hot water  , as Lee says will work better.

Synthetic carpets where the pile has been crushed will not lift.

Cheers

Doug

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: Karl Wildey on March 15, 2006, 06:15:20 pm

You can lift the dent of the carpet pile, but not if the underlay is crushed. Then you have to replace the crushed section of underlay

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: dave401uk on March 16, 2006, 08:17:59 pm

Not forgetting that the backing on the carpet will have stretched,making it almost impossible to rectify

Dave

Title: Re: indentations removal??
Post by: John Kelly on March 16, 2006, 11:05:45 pm

As I've said many times this can sometimes be rectified by using some stiff plastic material beneath the carpet.