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4 Responses to “Fish tank started leaking and carpet got wet. How do I dry?”
Drying time depends a lot upon the overall humidity in your house. For a moderate spill that has been soaked up as well as possible three days is about right.
Sounds like you are doing the right stuff… just be patient. Since the carpet is wet anyway, you might want to get a bit of carpet shampoo onto it and give it a good clean prior to drying. It will help lift stains and inhibit the formation of mold or mildew. Nothing worse than if the room starts smelling like a flood zone.
assume the carpet is the normal floor carpet which is wall to wall type, instead of expensive wool type ?
instead of waiting and using fan and heater ? why not cut a square piece out and at you leisure wash and dry it, then replace it when you want, after all it below the fish tank wont harm you.
If you can get hold of a Vax machine or carpet cleaner, use it! It will clean your carpets as well as **** in a load of the water. Fans will help a bit, but not much in my opinion.
We’ve had our toilet leak and soak the whole hall downstairs and we never hired a carpet cleaner… it took about two weeks to dry, and with some horrible dark stains where the water and dried and left dirt behind.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Patrick Woo
Drying time depends a lot upon the overall humidity in your house. For a moderate spill that has been soaked up as well as possible three days is about right.
Sounds like you are doing the right stuff… just be patient. Since the carpet is wet anyway, you might want to get a bit of carpet shampoo onto it and give it a good clean prior to drying. It will help lift stains and inhibit the formation of mold or mildew. Nothing worse than if the room starts smelling like a flood zone.
March 12th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Christian Dupler
assume the carpet is the normal floor carpet which is wall to wall type, instead of expensive wool type ?
instead of waiting and using fan and heater ? why not cut a square piece out and at you leisure wash and dry it, then replace it when you want, after all it below the fish tank wont harm you.
March 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Timothy Devlin
If you can get hold of a Vax machine or carpet cleaner, use it! It will clean your carpets as well as **** in a load of the water. Fans will help a bit, but not much in my opinion.
We’ve had our toilet leak and soak the whole hall downstairs and we never hired a carpet cleaner… it took about two weeks to dry, and with some horrible dark stains where the water and dried and left dirt behind.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Caroline Straley
You’ll never get the fish *** smell out…. replace it.