Drying A Wet Spot On Carpet

Keep doing this until they are completely dry.

Drying a wet spot on carpet.

Cutting into the subfloor around the moisture will give you access to any plumbing underneath. Right at the entrance to a room the carpet has a wet spot. Place towels over the carpeting and walk over them to get the water to soak up into the towels. If you have furniture and fixtures in the room check to see whether the moisture impacted.

Use a hairdryer and position it over the wet towels. Depending on the size of the damp carpet you may. At first we assumed our little boys spilled something. Replace with fresh dry.

At that point you can get a look under the padding and into the sub floor. How to dry a wet carpet with baking soda step 1. Unfortunately there is no way around it. Vacuum up the.

Run a wet vacuum over the wet or damp area of the carpet to bring up as much of the water as possible. It is on the lower level of a split level house built in 1976. Once the water is out peel back the carpeting watch out for those rusted sharp nails on the tackless stripping and remove the wet pad. Cut the pad into strips roll it up and haul it outside.

Sprinkle a large amount of baking soda over the damp carpet. This room is on a concrete slab. Afterwards you will be left with a clean and dry carpet. Vacuum the wet carpet with a wet dry vacuum until no moisture remains.

If the weather is hot dry and sunny you can try drying it yourself by rolling it out on your driveway. If the spot is isolated away from any walls or doors you will need to pull up the carpet. We tried to dry it up but it has stayed wet for a couple weeks.