Heavy furniture and new carpets

[savemefromsearches]

My new bed arrives on Thursday, and having moved existing bed to the spare room in prep, I have noticed that it has left deep impressions in our new carpet.

Does anyone have a recommendation as to how to get these out, and prevent them from happening next time? I've read about casters (?) but not sure how effective they are.

@savemefromsearches

My new bed arrives on Thursday, and having moved existing bed to the spare room in prep, I have noticed that it has left deep impressions in our new carpet.

Does anyone have a recommendation as to how to get these out, and prevent them from happening next time? I've read about casters (?) but not sure how effective they are.

Castors/furniture glides/flooring protectors give a larger surface area which eases the pressure a little and make it easier to push furniture if required.

To remove dents it can depend on the carpet material but generally a wet cloth or towel plus a steam iron should work quite quickly

Taking care that the iron doesn’t tip over and fall onto bare carpet ……
Put a wet cloth onto a mark, gently run the iron over the wet cloth whilst pumping the steam (so that you are steaming the carpet not ironing it)
Put the iron aside and rub the carpet
You should see a difference straight away but it will probably take a handful of goes per mark

((((Rub the carpet with the wet cloth))))

Wet a towel, place over the dent and press lightly with a warm iron using steam function. It works, I did my whole new house using the trick. Not sure it can be prevented. I only use castor cups on hard floor, they still make dents on carpet.

what @Tommika said 😆

A less labour-intensive way is to put an ice cube in the dent. Leave it to melt. Come back later with a fork and use the tines to fluff the pile back up, then leave to dry.

Sorry for the late replies - I didn't get an alert that anyone had responded and then couldn't find my own post 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Thanks all - will try the ice cubes first and the iron after, mainly because I am super clumsy and will likely burn the stupid thing.

I've also managed to get foundation under my vanity so that will be interesting to solve. Only 5 months in and feel like I've wrecked them already. I bloody hate carpet, wish we had asked the developer to put flooring in.

I just wait and the carpet bounces back ! Not sure how long it takes, a day maybe ? And I do sometimes move furniture just an inch to prevent them flattening the same spot, has worked so far.

The iron method sounds dangerous !!!

@Wineless

I just wait and the carpet bounces back ! Not sure how long it takes, a day maybe ? And I do sometimes move furniture just an inch to prevent them flattening the same spot, has worked so far.

The iron method sounds dangerous !!!

It’s no more ‘dangerous’ than ironing The risk factor is knocking over the iron onto bare carpet, so I would stand the iron on another towel as I’m bound to knock it over

You don’t need a high heat, just hot enough for steam and it should take seconds - you don’t ‘iron’ the carpet but ‘steam’ the carpet

Bissell SpotClean, gets out stains but also dents.

Leave an ice cube to melt in the dents 👍