Getting dents out of carpet when moving furniture..

[sparks_E39]

Any ideas on the best method?

[randlemarcus]

Pop an ice cube in each of them, and sit yourself down to watch the rest of the GP. Job jobbed.

[jackh707]

put an ice cube on the dent

[Blakeatron]

^^ really?

I have tried scraping a new hacksaw blade over the dent to pull it up - gets dog hair out too, and just using the nozzle on the hoover to suck them up.

[ShampooEfficient]

randlemarcus said:

Pop an ice cube in each of them, and sit yourself down to watch the rest of the GP. Job jobbed.

Damn, this was going to be my one chance to share a domestic tip that isn't "hold the Dyson crapbox bit over the bin when working out what the buttons do, not the carpet you've just hoovered"

[evil len]

ice ice baby !

[sparks_E39]

Thanks all!

[Fats25]

How does the ice cube trick work?

[King Herald]

Steam. Use one of them wallpaper steamers.

Or make something in the shed, like a shoe polish tin with a piece of copper tube brazed on the side, with some water in, and sat atop a paraffin pressure stove. This is Pistonheads you know.

[RemainAllHoof]

Pour red wine on it. I think.

[Laurel Green]

RemainAllHoof said:

Pour red wine on it. I think.

Has to be passed through one's bladder first.

[spikeyhead]

Laurel Green said:

RemainAllHoof said:

Pour red wine on it. I think.

Has to be passed through one's bladder first.

...and then frozen into cubes

[JONSCZ]

Much less hassle and less messy than ice cubes is (as King Herald says) steam - only get your iron on its hottest steam setting and use the extra steam button then put a wet cloth over the dented carpet and GENTLY iron the carpet under the cloth. Try dabbing the iron at 1st as you don't want to singe the carpet (sounds like a Viz Finbarr Saunders Double Entendre, there!!! - no carpet burns jokes, either....). It really works - we recently replaced our 80 KG 36" TV and the dents had been there 10 years and the carpet looks like the TV had never been there after 20 seconds with the wet cloth/iron trick.
HTH.
Cheers, Jon

[RemainAllHoof]

Laurel Green said:

RemainAllHoof said:

Pour red wine on it. I think.

Has to be passed through one's bladder first.

Depends. I'd rather have a red stain than a carpet smelling of stale piss.

[wiggy001]

Fats25 said:

How does the ice cube trick work?

Not sure but it does! I leave an ice cube to melt then, while it's still wet, put the Dyson nozzle on it to pull the carpet fibres up.

[crackthatoff]

carpet dents are the devils work you need a new one

[anonymous-user]

I wouldn't use anything that involves heat(again). £300 lighter to replace carpet(which removed the dent) only to see the wife decide the previous layout was perfect. New carpet has dent in same place as old ones burn mark. FFS women!! Ice cubes work...eventually.

[PeetBee]

Dave_ST220 said:

only to see the wife decide the previous layout was perfect.

Glad to hear that it's not just my wife that does this!
Thanks for the icecube trick, will be trying that soon