Carpet Wisdom - advice

[Jimk]

"Castor cups"

[John]

My lounge carpet has stood up very well to normal wear but the castors of the suite has really dented it (irrecoverable). I suspect the soft underlay has allowed the carpet backing to locally stretch or fail into a dent caused by the underlay foam sort of failing.

I guess the solution when it is time to replace is to use the firmest underlay available.

In other rooms we used the green and black rubber crumb (Duralay) stuff.

Any observations?

[Chris Hogg]

Castor cups spread the load a little, but still leave indentations IME

My late wife always said if you wet the indentation, then scuff the pile back up with your fingernails or whatever, it will recover. It may need to be repeated several times and isn't 100% effective, but works to some extent.

[mm0fmf]

Steam mop does wonders and saves on finger tips.

You can use a steam iron but you need a cloth between it and the carpet or you can melt some man-made fibres.

[John]

It is more than a flat pile. The underlay has been permanantly crushed.

[polygonum_on_google]

The classic is to use an ice cube in the impression.

However, that is clearly not an answer here.

Maybe get furniture which has large gliding surfaces rather than castors?

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

I've never found any answer to this. The huge forces on a small are will always result in deformation in time. If you want carpet to be soft and well, carpet like you need to spread the load on it somehow. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Not much good since they are lot strong or big enough. You really need something really big and solid to spread the load and often this can be a trip hazard. I guess you could always suspend furniture from ropes attached to the ceiling. Some people pay a small fortune for love swings. Brian

[Dave Liquorice]

Or spiked castor cups that transfer the load to the floor without subjecting the carpet/underlay to the full load.

[John]

"Dave Liquorice" [e-mail] wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Mrs P sometimes moves the furniture to accomodate her coven / WI Committee.

[spuorgelgoog]

can she levitate it to avoid tearing the carpet?

There's no arguing with one of them is there.

Owain