Vinyl becomes harder the cooler it gets and more flexible the warmer it is.
How to unroll a chair mat.
Always allow your mat to warm up thoroughly to at least room temperature before attempting to unroll your mat.
Most of today s chair mats are made from clear flexible vinyl which allows us to roll the mat for a more economically form of shipping.
24 hours after the mat has warmed up carefully unroll it and place it on the floor with the bow up studs cleats down adding weight to hold the mat in place if necessary the mat should gradually flatten over a period of a few hours thicker mats could take longer.
Jan 24 2012 7 leros said.
View our chair mat unrolling instructions here.
24 hours after the mat has warmed up carefully unroll it and place it on the floor with the bow up studs cleats down adding weight to hold the mat in place if necessary the mat should gradually flatten over a period of a few hours thicker mats could take longer.
With this in mind it is important to allow 24 hours for your mat to warm to room temperature before trying to unroll.
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Always allow your mat to warm up thoroughly to at least room temperature before attempting to unroll your mat.
To unroll the chair mat make sure it is at least room temperature unroll on a hard surface and place weight on all four corners.
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.