Do you have dents in your carpeting from heavy furniture? If so you should keep reading this article and learn a little about how to prevent these types of dents in the future and how to fix the ones that you have.
The easiest thing to do is to prevent furniture from denting your carpet. As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Furniture dents occur when heavy furniture, usually with small legs, is placed on a carpet. Over time the furniture will dent the carpet because of the constant weight. To prevent this problem you should spread the weight of the furniture out over a larger area. To do this you can buy furniture pads which you place under the legs of furniture. They will spread out the load and some pads, called sliders, actually make your furniture easy to move around.
So what if you already have dents in your carpet. Well there are some things that you can do to try and alleviate the problem. For example you can place ice chips in the dent. As the ice melts it will slowly be absorbed into the fiber and hopefully expand it. Another way to improve furniture dents is to use a vacuum with a hose attachment to try to pick the fibers back up. If neither of these methods work, you might have a permanent problem. Dents can be permanent if the backing of the carpet has actually been stretched and distorted. It will never completely go back to normal but might improve over time.