Drying Out Carpet Underlay

The high speed fans are incredibly useful in evaporating the moisture from the carpets as well as the underlayment.

Drying out carpet underlay. Turn up the heat and open the windows to aid in the drying. Pull back the carpet for the entire area that is wet. Wet carpet can become a real problem if it is left untreated and getting the moisture out in time can save you time and money. Use your body weight and soak up the water by walking over the carpets until the towels are fully saturated.

Keep at this until the areas is completely dry. This puts a cushion of air under the carpet and will rapidly dry the underlay and carpet backing. If so you might need to place a fan on the area to help speed up the drying. Later you will need to re attach the carpet to the nail strip after it is completely dried.

Place towels between the wet carpet and the dry carpet that you are pulling it back onto. But a higher temp will accelerate bacterial growth and turn your basement into a petri dish. Take up one corner and put an air blower under the carpet. Attach a vacuum hose for vacuuming up wet things to the exhaust of a vacuum then put the hose under the carpet placing the carpet back over the hose.

Keep the basement temperature at or below 75 degrees f. You might think hotter is better because it will dry out everything faster. If the weather has been hot and humid you probably have mildew in the padding it might smell a little once it s dry but chances are that if you used a good cleaner it may not drying it is the. Wet vac lots of car washes and some gas stations have coin operated ones.

Keep the corner or side of carpet that you have lifted raised and use a fan to blow air under the carpet unto the pad. This help prevent mould from growing in the carpets. Lay the carpet back on the floor and fire up the air movers and rental dehumidifier. Also pull back the carpet pad.

I just kept smooshing the carpet with the vaccum tool until no more water squeezed out. Once the carpet and underlay material is dry the technicians will apply antibacterial sprays in all the areas that have been dried out. If you are able check underneath the carpet and see if the pad is still soaked.