Straighten The Rug

Place the rug flat between your mattress and box spring.

Straighten the rug.

Carpet tape works on hard floors and on existing wall to wall carpet holding your rug in place to flatten existing creases and eliminate new ones. Small rugs are quite easy to flatten out by using the weight of your mattress. If the rug is small enough you won t even know that it s there. Remove creases from a small rug.

Allow this to dry this way and see if it helps. Press the tape down firmly smoothing it as you go. Then remove the paper covering the adhesive and smooth the rug over the floor. Step 1 take either the steamer or the wet sponge towel and dampen the edges of the unrolled rug.

Apply this tape to the back of your rug. This is a pretty efficient method that takes approximately 7 days to work. Flatten the rug by applying weight evenly and firmly. If the rug is too large you can always rotate it as the edges flatten out.

Of course over time the rug will eventually flatten out on its own but that is assuming that you don t continually fold that edge over from stepping on it.