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Wet Carpets, need some advice please james.lee 11-20-2006
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Posted by on November 20, 2006, 6:54 pm


Hi there,

I had an saltwater aquarium (sold it last night because of this) and I
had a leak onto the carpets, not a major leak (about 3 foot by 6 foot
section) but the carpets were water wet to touch and I can kinda tell
the underlay is wet as well.

This happened sat night and so on Sunday afternoon after the fishtank
was gone I used a shop vac to suck up as much as I can. I was just
wondering what I should do now, it still seems wet. I did some
searching and I found two pieces of advice, pull out the carpet and
replace it because you will have tons of mold issues or pull up the
carpet and replace the underlay and retack it down when the carpet is
complete dry.

Advice? The whole room size is about 35 feet by 15 feet so this
affected a small part of it.

Thank you very much.


Posted by Kyle Boatright on November 20, 2006, 7:06 pm


I work in the carpet industry, so just maybe I can help...

1) Grab your oldest towels. The ones you use in the shop, on the dogs, etc.
You'll need quite a few.

2) Flatten several of them out over the affected area. Put a large rigid
flat piece of something on top of the towels. Plywood comes to mind.

3) Lay heavy things on top of the plywood so it pushes the towels down onto
the carpet. Alternately, you can walk around on the plywood.

4) When the towels are wet, get more dry towels and repeat the process.

5) Continue repeating the process until the towels are barely damp. You'll
probably go 3 rounds one evening with the final round going overnight.

6) After that, take everything off of the carpet and point a box fan towards
the area. Leave the box fan on for a couple of days.

KB

> Hi there,
>
> I had an saltwater aquarium (sold it last night because of this) and I
> had a leak onto the carpets, not a major leak (about 3 foot by 6 foot
> section) but the carpets were water wet to touch and I can kinda tell
> the underlay is wet as well.
>
> This happened sat night and so on Sunday afternoon after the fishtank
> was gone I used a shop vac to suck up as much as I can. I was just
> wondering what I should do now, it still seems wet. I did some
> searching and I found two pieces of advice, pull out the carpet and
> replace it because you will have tons of mold issues or pull up the
> carpet and replace the underlay and retack it down when the carpet is
> complete dry.
>
> Advice? The whole room size is about 35 feet by 15 feet so this
> affected a small part of it.
>
> Thank you very much.
>



Posted by on November 20, 2006, 7:39 pm


Hi Kyle,

Thanks for the great reply! Do you think I will get any mold issue
later on? Or perhaps I could get the carpets professionally cleaner
after a few weeks once its all dry again?

Thanks again, I will go take your advice as soon as I get home tonight!

James


Kyle Boatright wrote:
> I work in the carpet industry, so just maybe I can help...
>
> 1) Grab your oldest towels. The ones you use in the shop, on the dogs, etc.
> You'll need quite a few.
>
> 2) Flatten several of them out over the affected area. Put a large rigid
> flat piece of something on top of the towels. Plywood comes to mind.
>
> 3) Lay heavy things on top of the plywood so it pushes the towels down onto
> the carpet. Alternately, you can walk around on the plywood.
>
> 4) When the towels are wet, get more dry towels and repeat the process.
>
> 5) Continue repeating the process until the towels are barely damp. You'll
> probably go 3 rounds one evening with the final round going overnight.
>
> 6) After that, take everything off of the carpet and point a box fan towards
> the area. Leave the box fan on for a couple of days.
>
> KB
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I had an saltwater aquarium (sold it last night because of this) and I
> > had a leak onto the carpets, not a major leak (about 3 foot by 6 foot
> > section) but the carpets were water wet to touch and I can kinda tell
> > the underlay is wet as well.
> >
> > This happened sat night and so on Sunday afternoon after the fishtank
> > was gone I used a shop vac to suck up as much as I can. I was just
> > wondering what I should do now, it still seems wet. I did some
> > searching and I found two pieces of advice, pull out the carpet and
> > replace it because you will have tons of mold issues or pull up the
> > carpet and replace the underlay and retack it down when the carpet is
> > complete dry.
> >
> > Advice? The whole room size is about 35 feet by 15 feet so this
> > affected a small part of it.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >


Posted by Joseph Meehan on November 20, 2006, 9:53 pm


james.lee@corasen.com wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> Thanks for the great reply! Do you think I will get any mold issue
> later on? Or perhaps I could get the carpets professionally cleaner
> after a few weeks once its all dry again?
>
> Thanks again, I will go take your advice as soon as I get home
> tonight!
>
> James
>
>

I would guess the salt will reduce the potentially mold issue. Just get
it dry. If you don't see a difference in appearance of the carpet, then I
think you got it licked.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit




Posted by on November 21, 2006, 1:55 am


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:53:13 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"

> I would guess the salt will reduce the potentially mold issue.

It will be worse, add to that the fact that salt water doesn't really
dry that well. If this is really a sea water tank running 36 PPT or so
that carpet may take weeks to dry and it will be cruchy. If I get
beach towels wet on my boat (Gulf of Mexico) they need to be washed
before they will really dry. Salt water just gets greasy feeling as it
dries. There is about 2.88 pounds of salt in 10 gallons of water at
36PPT plus whatever else is in the tank

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