I live in an older home. Since we moved in I have always wanted to remove the carpeting from the bathrooms for the very reason of what happened today. The toilet overflowed and left the carpeting in the bathroom soaked. It goes swish-swish when you walk on it. We just had not gotten around to replacing the carpeting with tile yet! I am using damp rid and keeping fans on it, but what else can I do? It does not seem like there has been any progress with my methods in over 12 hours. HELP!!! (Thanks!)
2007-06-09 15:23:35 · 11 answers · asked by Mary N. 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
use a wet dry vac (can rent at home depot or lowes). Then you need to wash the carpet (due to the type of soaking, I'd wash it really good). If you are not replacing the carpet, you should pull it up at the edges, prop it up with something to create an air space and put fans around to blow underneath to dry it. At any rate, you will probably need to replace the padding (if there is any underneath the carpet). This is not too expensive, and you can get it at the same place you get the wet vac. then put it all back. I'd also figure out why the toilet overflows and fix that before I fix anything else, or you will have the same problem all over again. Good luck.
2007-06-09 17:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by lynnewa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to hear about the crap part. We had a water leak at the toilet and just plain water made and unbelievable problem. We ripped up the carpet and padding, put fans to the waferboard flooring which had molded. Once it was dry we pour the bleach to it, scrubbed, then dried again. You must make sure this subfloor is perfectly dry before you reinstall any kind of floor covering. We opted for linoleum tiles for sanitary and future clean-up reasons. The carpet was not an option for us ever again after this mess! Good luck!
2016-05-21 03:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by brigitte 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remove the carpet and replace with tile or vinyl. That's what you want to eventually do anyhow...now's the time. A shop vac will get the water up, but if it's soaked down into the pad and subfloor it's always going to be there and will eventually stink. Tear it out and re-do the floors properly.
2007-06-09 17:28:58 · answer #3 · answered by ~Seamaster~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There a wet/dry vacuums that can be used. Many "shop" vac type vacuums can be used as a wet vac by just taking out the bag. If you can't get a wet vac, then you might try calling a steam clean carpet cleaner and have them suction out the water with their vacuum. When you're done it will still be a bit damp so I would spray lysol on it to keep the mildew away.
2007-06-09 15:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by the Boss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try using a wet/dry vac... it will take a lot of the water right out of the carpet. This happened to me and it got rid of the "swish swish" you were talking about... Good Luck!
2007-06-09 15:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Amers 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd just say scrap it and put some tile or good quality linoleum down. You can usually find inexpensive 12x12 tiles at Lowe's and whatnot for around $1 a square. I'm looking to buy a fixer and it's got the same thing. Cheap junky nasty carpet in the bathroom. Yuck. Good luck!
2007-06-09 15:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Cave Canem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it might be best to remove the carpet form your bathroom. a soak carpet will only create more damage to the wood floors and you may have a bigger job in your hands and lots of money to fix it.
if you were planing on removing the carpet, now is the time to do it.
good luck...
2007-06-09 20:27:17 · answer #7 · answered by Just me! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting Water Out Of Carpet
2017-02-21 00:24:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to get the water extracted, either by hiring someone to do it or renting a carpet shampooer and doing it yourself. I'm in property management, that's really the only answer.
2007-06-09 15:29:13 · answer #9 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try a wet/dry vac
2007-06-09 15:33:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋