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.
How to fix a warped rotary cutting mat.
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.
That is the first time i ever heard of fixing a warped mat.
Step by step tutorial this video goes into even more detail plus a few bonus tips on other ways to fix your curled mat.
How to flatten a warped cutting mat.
But before you discard your warped mat consider fixing it.
It was flapping along strapped to my cart with the sewing machine.
Help for warped cutting mat.
Storing between the mattress and box spring to flatten over time.
This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat.
Elaine has a problem.
However many people swear they can fix a warped mat by.
Will never buy one of those again.
Once i had a mat outside in bitter freezing weather.
Olfa on their website says there is no proven way to fix a warped cutting mat.
We tried everything we read on the internet that might fix it.
It fell off the seat and rested against the back of the front seat and is bowed on one end.
Any help would be.
Soaking in hot water and then laying flat.
Can it be saved.
That is funny how the sun often damages those mats and yet ellen had the sun reverse the damage.
I made a mistake and left my cutting mat in my car and now it is warped.
Rotary cutting mats protect your work surface from damage while also providing convenient measurements cutting lines and angles.
My rotary cutting mat is warped.
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.
However when the mat warps from improper storage or from being overheated it loses most of that usefulness.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to straighten it back out.
Congratulations ellen good luck ginger.
In many cases you can rescue your entire mat and you can always salvage pieces for smaller projects.
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.
In this video i am fixing unwarping my self healing cutting mat that got warped and bent with the heat from my laptop.
Laying it in the hot sun on the sidewalk.
