About Jim Goddard Expertise If you have a question about any type of broadloom carpet, carpet cushion, or carpet installation, I will be most happy to answer it.
Please don`t ask me questions about hardwood flooring, or ceramic tile.
Experience I have been in the business since 1961 and currently own and operate a retail floorcovering store in Tigard, Oregon. I also publish a consumer website at www.carpetguru.com
Publications Floorcovering Weekly (trade magazine), nbc news, various places on the net, and local newpapers. I used to write a carpet advice column for our local paper.
Education/Credentials College degree, new member of the Carpet Cushion Council, and forty years in the floorcovering business.
Question How can your bring carpet back to its original condition where furniture has been sitting on it for 2 - 3 years, and has left indents? It was new carpet then, just installed.
Thanks.
Answer Often furniture will leave marks because the pad allows the back of the carpet to distort. You can bring the pile back to normal by placing a damp towel over the dent, and then steaming with a steam iron set on "perm press". Be careful not to melt the fiber by getting the iron too hot. While the fiber is still hot from steaming, take a comb and bring the fiber back up.
This will remove at least half of the dent. The rest of the dent is that caused by a distorted carpet back.
