Drying Out Carpet Underlay

Also pull back the carpet pad.

Drying out carpet underlay.

If you are able check underneath the carpet and see if the pad is still soaked. This puts a cushion of air under the carpet and will rapidly dry the underlay and carpet backing. Pull back the carpet for the entire area that is wet. Place towels between the wet carpet and the dry carpet that you are pulling it back onto.

Turn up the heat and open the windows to aid in the drying. You might think hotter is better because it will dry out everything faster. But a higher temp will accelerate bacterial growth and turn your basement into a petri dish. 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.

Bail out as much as you can with a cup 2. Lay the carpet back on the floor and fire up the air movers and rental dehumidifier. 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. Wet vac lots of car washes and some gas stations have coin operated ones.

I just kept smooshing the carpet with the vaccum tool until no more water squeezed out. Use your body weight and soak up the water by walking over the carpets until the towels are fully saturated. Carpet underlay water damage1 the carpet is easy bit to dry tricky part drying that underlay airmover between carpet subfloor. Later you will need to re attach the carpet to the nail strip after it is completely dried.

More worrying is how you managed to get the underlay wet in the first place. 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. Once the carpet and underlay material is dry the technicians will apply antibacterial sprays in all the areas that have been dried out. Keep the basement temperature at or below 75 degrees f.

Take up one corner and put an air blower under the carpet. The high speed fans are incredibly useful in evaporating the moisture from the carpets as well as the underlayment. This help prevent mould from growing in the carpets.