Drying out a wet carpet?

Any suggestions on how to dry a wet carpet. Flooded pretty good in a few areas. And who does that kind of work up here? Thanks

You need to take up a wet carpet and vacuum the water up in the pad. A wet/dry shop vacuum will do. After that, do the same with the carpet, leave it up and put heat lamps on the flooded areas to completely dry them out. This ought to take at leas 24 hours of drying time.

Sorry to hear you get to spend your weekend dealing with that. been there done that and it sucks.

We found that one of those fans that fit under the carpet and blow air at high volume works well, too.... we had some flooding a few years back this saved the guest room's carpet. We changed out the pad to one that will dry out faster if it ever happens again. Hopefully, we fixed the issues.

285rentals rents them and they are not cheap, but worth it




I put cement board up along all the walls where the flooding occurred to also prevent having to pull it all out again.




our problem? when the house was built (not by us), they did not seal around the pipes where they punched through the concrete floor to run the plumbing. The water was seeping UP through the cracks in the floor. We poured fiberglass resin (fast cook-off) down all the holes to seal them. No problems since.

You could also rent a carpet cleaner at the grocery store to suck it up with.

We recently had a flooded basement, bluesky came out and dried everything up, took about a day.

HappyCamper wrote: You could also rent a carpet cleaner at the grocery store to suck it up with.

Inadequate. It will never get all the moisture out and you end up with mold not to mention the moldy smell.

Pm Becky

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Get your carpet up in the air and get fans on it asap. Take your pad up and just throw it away. Pad is cheap but your carpet is not.
Your carpet should be fine. Is it the carpet you bought from me?
I will pm you my number.
Whatever you do.....DON"T PANIC.

Becky wrote: I am here.
Viking
Get your carpet up in the air and get fans on it asap. Take your pad up and just throw it away. Pad is cheap but your carpet is not.
Your carpet should be fine. Is it the carpet you bought from me?
I will pm you my number.
Whatever you do.....DON"T PANIC.

Yes it is the carpet you sold me. Same room. I am far from panicing. It just sucks. Got your message and I will call you later. Thanks Becky.

Your carpet will be fine. It's a Stainmaster. I will have Greg get ya some pad.