Fix A Warped Rotary Mat

In many cases you can rescue your entire mat and you can always salvage pieces for smaller projects.

Fix a warped rotary mat.

Congratulations ellen good luck ginger. Warped cutting mat help. 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. Once i had a mat outside in bitter freezing weather.

Rotary cutting mats protect your work surface from damage while also providing convenient measurements cutting lines and angles. But before you discard your warped mat consider fixing it. Any help would be. Soaking in hot water and then laying flat.

Put the warped olfa mat on top. I stored it standing up behind a bookcase so that it stood on end but was restricted from falling down by the 1 2 space between the wall and the bookcase. That is funny how the sun often damages those mats and yet ellen had the sun reverse the damage. Olfa on their website says there is no proven way to fix a warped cutting mat.

Leave outside in the heat all day. It was flapping along strapped to my cart with the sewing machine. It fell off the seat and rested against the back of the front seat and is bowed on one end. A warped mat concrete piece of clean flat plywood as big as your mat or bigger piece of heavy glass as big as your mat or bigger.

This will cause to to slowly warm and the mat should then lay back flat. Elaine has a problem. Laying it in the hot sun on the sidewalk. Cover with the glass.

Help for warped cutting mat. 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. So i eventually trashed the first and purchased a 2nd mat.

Lay your flat playwood on the concrete. Then the 2nd mat warped. Storing between the mattress and box spring to flatten over time. I don t know when or why but it too is now warped.

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. 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. My rotary cutting mat is warped. Can it be saved.