This is dumb, but I can't unroll my new chairmat. UPDATE: UNROLLED AT LAST!

[Leros]

At the suggestion of ATOT, I purchased a premium chairmat from http://www.americanfloormats.com/.

It came rolled up in a tube. The problem is that I physically cannot unroll it. The plastic is too rigid. I can sort of bend the plastic, but I have no chance of unrolling it. Even if I were to force it open somehow, I have no idea how I would use it as a chairmat. I doubt I'd be able to get it to lay flat enough to put a chair on top of it.

Anybody else had this problem?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Unravel it just a tiny bit and then force something heavy on it. Then push the heavy thing against the curled end to unroll it gradually, and once it is unrolled let it sit for a while.

<--- Had to click the link to know what a chair mat was.

 

[Leros]

Unravel it just a tiny bit and then force something heavy on it. Then push the heavy thing against the curled end to unroll it gradually, and once it is unrolled let it sit for a while.

<--- Had to click the link to know what a chair mat was.

I can't unravel it a tiny bit. I can pry it open about 2-3 inches. That's it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I can't unravel it a tiny bit. I can pry it open about 2-3 inches. That's it.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Warm it up with a space heater or hair dryer.

 

[Leros]

Warm it up with a space heater or hair dryer.

I think I'm going to call them tomorrow. This is ridiculous. I can't imagine a company buying 100 chair mats and having somebody need to heat each one up with a heatgun just to unroll it.

This was a $200 chair mat. I expected a luxury experience

 

[Pardus]

At the suggestion of ATOT, I purchased a premium chairmat from http://www.americanfloormats.com/.

It came rolled up in a tube. The problem is that I physically cannot unroll it. The plastic is too rigid. I can sort of bend the plastic, but I have no chance of unrolling it. Even if I were to force it open somehow, I have no idea how I would use it as a chairmat. I doubt I'd be able to get it to lay flat enough to put a chair on top of it.

Anybody else had this problem?

Dude, take it out of the box, remove the plastic wrap around it, Let the mat sit in corner for a day or two to adjust to the climate of your room. There very stiff when you get them as there machine pressed.

In a day or two, it will unroll itself. Be patient.

 

[Leros]

Dude, take it out of the box, remove the plastic wrap around it, Let the mat sit in corner for a day or two to adjust to the climate of your room. There very stiff when you get them as there machine pressed.

In a day or two, it will unroll itself. Be patient.

It should have come with idiot directions. I think I'll sue for emotional distress. :hmm:

 

[Leros]

So, I found the directions. They're about a layer or two inside the rolled up chair mat. It's blurry to read since I'm reading through a layer or two of plastic. I can only read the titles but one of them is "Unrolling Your Chairmat".

Terrible place to put the directions

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I think I'm going to call them tomorrow. This is ridiculous. I can't imagine a company buying 100 chair mats and having somebody need to heat each one up with a heatgun just to unroll it.

This was a $200 chair mat. I expected a luxury experience

100 mats would most likely be packed flat, in large boxes, and on a pallet.

 

[LordMorpheus]

So, I found the directions. They're about a layer or two inside the rolled up chair mat. It's blurry to read since I'm reading through a layer or two of plastic. I can only read the titles but one of them is "Unrolling Your Chairmat".

Terrible place to put the directions

Haha, that's like the package opening tool (for the heat-sealed hard plastic packages electronics come it), it was packaged with the same stuff and was labeled "the last package you will struggle to open!"

 

[zinfamous]

So, I found the directions. They're about a layer or two inside the rolled up chair mat. It's blurry to read since I'm reading through a layer or two of plastic. I can only read the titles but one of them is "Unrolling Your Chairmat".

Terrible place to put the directions

sorry, OP, but I lol at that.

 

[bwoody2016]

I think I'm going to call them tomorrow. This is ridiculous. I can't imagine a company buying 100 chair mats and having somebody need to heat each one up with a heatgun just to unroll it.

This was a $200 chair mat. I expected a luxury experience

For 200 dollars shouldnt they come out and do it? Better yet, is this a floating chair mat? Whats so special about it?

 

[sygyzy]

So, I found the directions. They're about a layer or two inside the rolled up chair mat. It's blurry to read since I'm reading through a layer or two of plastic. I can only read the titles but one of them is "Unrolling Your Chairmat".

Terrible place to put the directions

I don't know why but this really made me laugh. I know some others probably think you are dumb or something but I am picturing your situation and I know exactly what you're going through. You'd think an established placed like American Floormats selling a $200 mat would have figured out a better place to put the instructions. That's like Sentry putting the keys to your new safe, inside the locked safe.

 

[Colt45]

$200 floor mat

mindboggle

 

[edro]

Since it was $200, it is probably really thick which makes it more difficult to unroll.
Do you have anything large and heavy with a flat bottom that you can sit on top of the few inches you can unroll?
Put the few inches you can separate under the edge of an entertainment center or computer desk legs. Then pull the roll to expose a few more inches and put something heavy on that section.
Keep doing it until it is opened enough to sit your chair on it. It will flatten out over time.

It is probably really cold from the shipment. After it warms up it should be easier.

http://www.deflecto.com/products/pc/catalog/instructionmanuals/chairmats/Chairmat-How_To_Unroll.pdf


Here is a quick tip:

I could not even get is started to unroll. What I did was stand it up in the shower and let the hot water hit the plastic until it ran out. The hot water softened the plastic enough to allow it to be unrolled. I started on the end that was on the outside and then kept crawling on top of it as I unrolled it. My weight helped the mat catch the carpet as I unrolled it.

I got it all laid out on the floor and let it grip the carpet and it is staying in place. Best Regards

 

[LookBehindYou]

So, I found the directions. They're about a layer or two inside the rolled up chair mat. It's blurry to read since I'm reading through a layer or two of plastic. I can only read the titles but one of them is "Unrolling Your Chairmat".

Terrible place to put the directions

I'm sorry for your troubles, but that's some funny shit right there.

 

[sswingle]

When I got mine (although it didn't cost anyways near $200) it had specific instructions to let it warm up from being outside before even attempting to unroll it.

 

[jupiter57]

Last one I bought was rolled up also.
I just filled the bathtub with hot water, put the mat in for 10-15 minutes, unrolled easily.

 

[BoomerD]

At the suggestion of ATOT, I purchased a premium chairmat from http://www.americanfloormats.com/.

It came rolled up in a tube. The problem is that I physically cannot unroll it. The plastic is too rigid. I can sort of bend the plastic, but I have no chance of unrolling it. Even if I were to force it open somehow, I have no idea how I would use it as a chairmat. I doubt I'd be able to get it to lay flat enough to put a chair on top of it.

Anybody else had this problem?

Get a man to do it for you...:whiste:

 

[randomrogue]

Hmmmm. $200 floor mat or $15 one at Costco. Looks the same and does the same thing. Decisions decisions.

I suggest you work out. Build up some muscle. Alternatively just let it sit for a day or try the bathtub trick.

 

[lxskllr]

Some of the questions that come through this place...

You people are supposed to brighter, and more creative than average. jupiter figured out a solution, and a fine one it was. HamburgerBoys solution was good too, but a bit longer on the pay off. We're not designing a perpetual motion machine here...

 

[IronWing]

Chairmats, that's just how we roll.

 

[leeland]

man the shit on that site is outrageously expensive...seriously...the anti-fatigue mats are 11 bucks a piece WTFBBQ...

For reference I just went to a local hardware store and got the same thing (6 in a bundle for 20 bucks)...and did a section in my basement that is for storage...

Makes me wonder how places like this stay in business...

I want to see a picture of this floor mat that won't roll open...this sounds hilarious!

 

[Shawn]

Warm it up with a space heater or hair dryer.

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