Getting out carpet wrinkles

A friend had trouble getting his new carpet flat and he used a hair dryer and a small rolling pin on a handle that helped with the process.(I think it was the kind of roller you use when installing laminate sheet flooring?) Some parts of the carpet he sprayed with water and rolled it to flatten. The carpet was really cheap and not the best, but it was eventually fixed and looked great after a lot of work. Someone told him to lay the carpet out in the sun for a few hours when you can before installing if it seems excessively wrinkled out of the box.

Injectedcutty said:

Did you talk sweet to it during the process, usually helps lol! Just kidding, i couldn't pass up the opportunity

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Its pretty seldom that I talk sweet to a car.

mobileaudio25 said:

I don't have a heat gun, but I do need to grab one. I've been in need of one more than a few times. Do you think a hair dryer would work also ?

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A hair dryer might work. There is no contest between the two though power wise. When you get a heat gun, find some place to hang it up while it cools. The metal collar will burn up everything until it cools. Here's the one I have. Pretty inexpensive....
http://m.homedepot.com/p/Wagner-Furno-300-Heat-Gun-0503059/206723935

Don't use a heat gun on the top side! You'll melt the fibers of the carpet and it'll look awful. Go buy a cheap steamer from Target or Walmart, one that is meant for steaming wrinkles out of clothes. I bought a small purple steamer for $10 at Target when I did my last headliner. Use the steamer and heat up the carpet and massage the wrinkles out. My ACC carpet with Jute backing dropped right in, no wrinkles after sitting in the sun for a couple hours.

Texas82GP said:

Its pretty seldom that I talk sweet to a car.

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I talk sweet to my car if the battery is low and I'm just hoping it'll start, then when it doesn't my tone changes and I b!tch her out.....

joesregalproject said:

Don't use a heat gun on the top side! You'll melt the fibers of the carpet and it'll look awful. Go buy a cheap steamer from Target or Walmart, one that is meant for steaming wrinkles out of clothes. I bought a small purple steamer for $10 at Target when I did my last headliner. Use the steamer and heat up the carpet and massage the wrinkles out. My ACC carpet with Jute backing dropped right in, no wrinkles after sitting in the sun for a couple hours.

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I like the idea of the steamer. I used the heat gun successfully but I was extremely careful and had my hand on the carpet the entire time. I also used the low setting. It would be easy to burn/melt the carpet with a heat gun.