Getting Water Damage From Your Carpet On a Small Scale

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Notice: If you have a whole room of carpet wet, call us. This is a job for the pro's with special equipment and training and is much too large to DIY the project.

Carpets appear to be magnets for moisture that has no business being there. It doesn't matter if you spilled a drink or were carrying a bucket of mop water; if water finds its way to your carpet, you may think that just putting a towel over it is enough to soak it up and take care of the problem.

Even a minuscule amount of moisture can become a breeding ground for mold. And mold is not good for you or anyone else in your house. Here are some methods to take care of the water in your carpet before you have to call in the big guns specializing in restoring flood-affected homes.

First, you had the right idea about using a towel to soak the moisture, but that's just step one. Getting the brunt of the moisture out of the carpet isn't hard. Getting that last bit of dampness out is the key step to worry about. For this, you need to be able to gauge just how much moisture is left. For this, take a few paper towels, layer them, and then place them on top of the area where the last bit of moisture remains. Soak up as much of it as you can. You'll be able to tell how much more you pull out because the paper towels are more absorbent, and it is easier to see how much water is soaked.

From there, it may seem like you have as much out of the floor as you can get, but there are two things you can do now. If the spill happened in a room and not out in the open of your home, you can use a dehumidifier to get it out. Another helpful thing to use is a heat gun or even a simple hairdryer. Either of these will go a long way towards removing the remaining moisture, keeping nasty mold out of your home, and even helping you save your carpet.

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