Ends may curl up and the rug may get out of square easily.
How to get ripples out of a rug.
However the ripples may recur when moisture is again present.
Always hold the hair dryer 6 to 9 inches away from the rug and use a sweeping motion.
What has worked for me is flipping the entire rug over and putting something heavy on the ripple.
Again use a low heat setting when aiming your blow dryer toward the rug to avoid burning or melting the fibers.
If you don t have a large enough patch of sun flip the rug over and use a hair dryer to heat up the creases of the rug and release them.
Pry the carpet gently up from the strips with a wood chisel or other pry tool on a wall parallel to the ripple.
Spritz the crushed area with enough water to saturate.
The fibers will relax on their own.
It s possible to melt rug fibers so use a low or medium heat setting and keep the hair dryer moving back and forth at all times.
Using a comb and a blow dryer gently brush out rug wrinkles.
Use the ice cube method for furniture dents.
For these rugs if moisture is the problem the situation can sometimes be corrected by wetting the backing and tacking the rug out in a stretched position.
A new rug may have waves or ripples in it when it s first unrolled.
Regain that spring in your step and your carpet by making a beeline for the bath to collect a blow dryer and spray bottle filled with water.
The problem is you have to leave it like that for days but there seems to be no other way to work it out.
Smooth it as flat as you can and allow it to rest for a day or so.
Pull tacks with a carpet tack puller a small metal claw on a short thick shank or.