How To Fix A Warped Rotary Cutting Mat

Will never buy one of those again.

How to fix a warped rotary cutting mat.

In many cases you can rescue your entire mat and you can always salvage pieces for smaller projects. Step by step tutorial this video goes into even more detail plus a few bonus tips on other ways to fix your curled mat. But before you discard your warped mat consider fixing it. I made a mistake and left my cutting mat in my car and now it is warped.

Help for warped cutting mat. Soaking in hot water and then laying flat. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to straighten it back out. Any help would be.

Elaine has a problem. How to flatten a warped cutting mat. This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat. If it doesn t do so on its own once it is good and warm you can place heavy objects on it like books and leave them there until the mat has cooled.

If you don t have space. You can also watch the tutorial on youtube and check out the comments with lots of awesome suggestions on how to flatten a warped cutting mat. Once i had a mat outside in bitter freezing weather. That is the first time i ever heard of fixing a warped mat.

Congratulations ellen good luck ginger. I bought a very expensive green huge cutting mat left it flat on my cutting table and it still warped because the sun coming in the window in the wintertime got to it. We tried everything we read on the internet that might fix it. If you accidentally leave your rotary cutting mat in the car on a hot day or absentmindedly run a warm iron over it you ll be left with a useless warped cutting mat.

It fell off the seat and rested against the back of the front seat and is bowed on one end. Rotary cutting mats protect your work surface from damage while also providing convenient measurements cutting lines and angles. A good way to try and fix a warped mat is to lay it out on a flat surface in the heat of the sun all day. Olfa on their website says there is no proven way to fix a warped cutting mat.

Warped cutting mat help. Can it be saved. However many people swear they can fix a warped mat by. Laying it in the hot sun on the sidewalk.

It was flapping along strapped to my cart with the sewing machine. That is funny how the sun often damages those mats and yet ellen had the sun reverse the damage. However when the mat warps from improper storage or from being overheated it loses most of that usefulness.