Lay the plastic chair mat carpet fingers up onto the assembly.
How to get a chair mat to stay flat.
Be careful when you open a rolled chair mat.
Creating this opposing new curl shape will in effect straighten the curled plastic.
I bought one of those clear hard plastic office chair mats from staples months ago and have tried repeated times to unroll it.
Unravel it just a tiny bit and then force something heavy on it.
If the mat is too wide some mat plastic may have to be trimmed later.
I can t get it to lay flat long enough to put it up my chair.
After it relaxes and is flat move it to a flat cooler area in the shade or indoors until it cools and becomes more rigid.
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Then push the heavy thing against the curled end to unroll it gradually and once it is unrolled let it sit for a while.
Some are packed very tightly and may unroll quickly and forcefully.
Now your mat is ready for installation.
It s a really thick hard plastic with those sharp pointy things underneath that sticks into the carpet.
Then flip it over and reroll the mat.
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For now center the mat side to side on the flooring.
Chair mats can take up to 24 hours to fully unroll and flatten.
Fight curl with curl unroll the mat as flat as you can get it.
Every time i attempt to unroll it it keeps curling back up.
Chair mats aren t designed for use under the desk and may crack.
Instead buy a mat with a lip.
Align the side edges and the back edge of the mat with the flooring assembly.