How can I get the indents, made from heavy furniture, out of my carpet?
An ice cube might help some, but I doubt it will help much. What has happened is that the cushioned padding underneath the carpet has been compressed for so long that it tends to want to stay in that formation. That padding is made out of plastic foam. Plastic foam has what is called memory. Memory is just a technical way of saying that it wants to return to its original shape. The plastic maintains memory through the orientation of the molecules. However, the longer your foam remains compressed the more the cushioning will lose its memory or ability to return to its original flat shape. Not only is your pad now compressed, but your carpet fibers are also stretched. This is where the cold of the ice cube over the dent might help. The cold could help shrink the carpet fibers in that spot helping to reduce the stretch and partially take out the indent. As far as the padding, give it time and it should come back some but not fully. If it is adhesive padding you might be able to use a vacc
