How to Get Furniture Indentation Marks out of Carpet

If you move furniture, you have seen the indentations left in the carpet. Here are some ideas to get your carpet in those spots looking like the rest of the carpet again.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Ice
• Wide Tooth Comb
• Carpet Rake
• Iron
• Towel

1. Try these steps to get rid of indentations in your carpet. Take a piece of ice and place it in the indentation. Let the ice melt, and when the carpet is moist, scrap your fingers or a wide-tooth comb over the indent. The fibers will pop back up again. If you want to, you can use a hair blowdryer while fluffing the carpet.
2. There are items you can purchase, like a carpet "rake", that is used like an outdoors rake to work out the indents in the carpet fiber. They are fairly inexpensive. I have found that the rakes work ok, but they grab the carpet fibers and sometimes snag them.
3. Here's another trick. Put a small towel over the indent and iron the area with a hot iron. Be sure to keep the iron moving so that the area doesn't get too hot and burn the carpet.

Tips & Warnings

• If you try the above tricks and they don't work, try them again. Sometimes if you do them a couple of times it does the trick.
• Don't pull too hard on the carpet because you might snag it.
• Don't use chemicals... just water.