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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cleanability on December 18, 2004, 06:29:02 pm

Title: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: cleanability on December 18, 2004, 06:29:02 pm

Can indentations on carpets under chair/table legs be improved/reversed? Always get asked. Always say no. Have heard somewhere about using ice. Any ideas or old wives tales out there???

                                              Chris

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Dynafoam on December 18, 2004, 06:45:23 pm

Chris,

Indentations from chair legs etc.  consist of three main causes.

Pile crush.
Backing stretch.
Underlay compression.

The first  can sometimes be reversed and the practise of putting an ice cube or pouring water into the dent is an attempt to cause local shrinkage to combat the stretching. Unfortunately water-shrinkable backings are also the ones that can cause cellulostic browning.

Personally, all I do is, after rinsing, use the vacuum hose-cuff to lift up the carpet out of the dent and to speed-dry the pile upright. It often helps and will sometimes remove the dent, sometimes convert it to a bump, but that's as Far as I go.

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Len Gribble on December 18, 2004, 07:02:55 pm

John

What about using one of these


(http://img56.exs.cx/img56/2341/spot_w_hands.jpg)

Just a thought

Len

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Dynafoam on December 18, 2004, 07:27:12 pm

Len,

A water claw will  some times help in the same way as a hose-cuff - but the HC is always to hand.

Nice picture though- I made one of these from an end-cap of a 7.5" Lamb vac unit years ago. It was lost in 200 when my van was stolen and I've never got round to making another.  :(

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Ian Rochester on December 18, 2004, 07:38:54 pm

I usually use a steam gun and agitate, comes up like new

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Dynafoam on December 18, 2004, 07:42:35 pm

I find that steam can help re-set the pile crush but on a deep dent, it's hardly worth the effort.

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Len Gribble on December 18, 2004, 08:39:30 pm

Think of a can of coke empty apply pressure then try to put it back to original form.

Have been ask on many occasions if I can  ;)

Len

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: cleanability on December 19, 2004, 12:20:47 am

Thanks for the replies chaps.
   
                        Chris

Title: Re: Can Indentations Be Removed???
Post by: Derek on December 19, 2004, 08:23:14 am

Hi

One of the commonest factors is compression of the underlay as Big Brother John mentioned in his post.

Many retailers offer 'free' underlay and this is usually the cheap converluting type which breaks gives way very quickly under pressure from furniture...when dealing with the customer on this pressure situation check out the type of underlay.. this may be the 'underlying' (pardon the pun) problem

Derek