Removing Wet Basement Carpet

Follow these steps for drying your carpet properly and preventing the spread of moisture and mildew.

Removing wet basement carpet.

By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine. Pulling up the carpet to pull up the carpet start by removing the baseboard or molding along the walls. Doing so will interfere with the new layer of adhesive that is used to lay the new carpeting. Use a wet dry vacuum to remove excess water.

Wet carpet especially in a basement can be extremely heavy because of all of the moisture that it has soaked up due to flooding or leaking. And if you are replacing the carpeting with tile the left over bumpy adhesive. To successfully restore a floor from water damage you need to do more than just dry the carpeting you need to get to the next layer and make sure that the foundation and the floor is completely dry. A wet carpet in a flooded basement may be salvageable depending on the water source but you have to work fast before mold starts growing.

Using foam carpet shampoo as an alternative. When moisture gets underneath the carpet a musty odor will form. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor.

Wet vacs are the perfect tool for. The wet bar wasn t completely offensive or anything i just didn t like the placement of it. When a carpet smells musty or smells like mildew it can be a result of humidity or spills that fell onto the carpet. The most important part is first stopping water from flowing into the problem area.

Here s what you need to know to dry out wet carpet. The basement desperately needed new carpet but before we can have carpet installed i wanted to remove the wet bar in the basement. Even if it s only water a funny odor can accumulate over time. The easiest way to get the moisture or water out of your carpet is by removing it with a wet vacuum.

Mix 1 cup 237 milliliters of white vinegar into 2 cups 5 liter of warm water. Remove as much moisture as possible with a wet dry vacuum. This is also a great remedy to remove the mold spores and eliminate the musty odor. If your home has recently flooded this is most likely the reason for the unpleasant odor.

For every part of hydrogen peroxide used use five parts of water. Here are some before photos. For mold smells dilute your vinegar with water. The cool thing about removing mold mildew and musty odors is that there are many solutions that can be applied.

Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool. Make sure that the water is warm.