Bubble in floormat
 

My gas valve leaked and made a lump in my floormat. The leak is fixed now but what can I do to remove the bubble it left.

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Don't look too bad to me, kinda' adds CHARACTER:D
Buster T.:cool:

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Maybe with time it will dry back to normal, but I wouldn't bet on it, and I don't know of any other fix.
You could add a caddy to carry pop, pens, and road maps.

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I think it's kind of obvious that the hump in your floor mat is caused by the lady just to left in your avatar leaning over the fender...

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I could mount a stealth Bermuda bell under it too!

My son, the DOE physicist happened to call me while I was posting this and I asked and was rewarded with a bunch of unfathomable rhetoric about petroleum products and polymer resin threads. The upshot was to soak it with a highly concentrated detergent ( I hope Dawn dishwashing detergent qualifies cause that's all I have handy)). While leaving it out in the hot sun.

We'll see what happens:

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I agree . its the girl !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Did it pop up while she was looking at it?

Just trying to help.

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Flipped it over and it seems to be working. It's flattened out quite a bit in the 84 Degree heat.


BTW:

I am not discounting the power of my mechanic pictured to make a piece of rubber rise but considering that she mentioned having a great grandson on this forum (she won't tell me which one of ya'll) I am discretely attributing the problem to a leaky gas valve.

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Seems to be working!

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Through the last 45 years that I have owned my A Tudor, several times the gas drip on the floor mat has humped up the rubber mat. Every time that it has happened, I have tended to the fuel leak, and then the rubber floor mat has always returned to its original flat condition. The fuel just has to evaporate out of the rubber mat.

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My gas line leaked over the winter and did the same thing. BIG BUBBLE! I didn't do anything to it and within 1- 2 months it was back down to normal. Just let it go, it will take care of itself.

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Perhaps leaving it out in the sun did more good than scrubbing it with soap. Well, at any rate, I have the cleanest floormat on the block!