Question Warped Canvas in Floater Frame

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Have a 44 x 60" canvas stretched on non-square stretcher bars. Already glued and screwed into floater frame, which forced the canvas square. Canvas buckled and warped. Any way to flatten it without taking the whole thing apart?
 
The longer answer is... nope.
 
Yeah, glued? Sounds like a problem to me. You could try Tight'n'Up but with the canvas distorted like that I doubt it will work.
 
These are "character building" projects.
Yes, and they can be "muscle building" as well...:rolleyes:

I just framed an already stretched canvas that was out of square in a floater last week.
We do a lot of canvases in floaters, but most of them are square.

Whenever I get an already stretched canvas to frame, the first thing that I do is check the size and check for square.
I measure top, bottom and middle on the length and width for size.
Then I measure diagonally to see if it's square.
When I see an issue, I put a metal corner square on it or sometimes I just use a sheet of Fome Cor to see how far out it is.

The one that I did last week was about 30" x 44".
It was out of square by about 3/8" and it was to be fitted into a floater with NO GAP around it.
We have a designer that likes to have no gap and flush to the front so everything has to be perfect.o_O

I tell the client that it's out of square, get permission to re-stretch and I re-stretch it slightly smaller to make it square.
I only screw the canvas into the floaters from behind with countersunk screws, so I'm not sure about what the OP meant about "glued and screwed" into the floater.
I would never glue a canvas into a floater.
 
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