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8 Tips For Drying Wet Carpet and How to Preventing Mould Growth

Are you suffering from water damage because of leakage in your home carpet? The causes of water damage are many types like due to flood, pipe leakage in house, heavy rainy season etc. but all these may become the leading factors to damage your carpet and keep your carpet wet which must be dried up and growing mould on wet carpet should be removed as soon as possible to save your home from major disaster.

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If quick action is not taken for caring your home wet carpet, that will always causing big damage to your home not only for flooring itself. This problem is making you stressful after all we all love our home like our lives. To get rid from this situation, suggesting you some beneficial tips for drying wet carpet with saving it from growing mould to prevent your home flooring from any deep damage. Before knowing tips, understand how you know about wet carpet and is it ok to take sit on it.

How You Recognize Wet Carpet?

Before applying any technique on wet carpet, first need to understand about the condition of carpet. Is it totally wet or in just starting phase. To figure out this thing, apply first way that is foul the odor sides from affected points. If you feel leak from only corner of house, then try to treat it as soon as possible before odor restricts air circulation within home. But suppose if you observe moist and musty odor then don’t let t go in easily and quickly contact to professional wet cleaners for special dry cleaning service. If you get your carpet wet, don’t waste your time and apply below stated eight tips to prevent your wet carpet. That will help your flooring and home from many causes and removing moulds totally to save your home.

8 tips of experts for drying wet carpet with removing mould:

  1. Moisture Elimination

First of all, try to stop flow of water to be spread more on the floor. Then apply wet vacuum to reduce or demolish the moisture from the carpet. Wet vacuums are the perfect solution at first step to leave your carpet free from wetting more and more. Applying this way is not much expensive just you need vacuum either purchased or rental.

  1. Dispose your home furniture

While removing moisture from wet carpet, dispose all the furniture items attached with flooring because moisture of wet carpet may affect badly to your home furniture. And suppose some furniture items are already affected; trash them in garbage if not possibility of repairing. That may lead to more damage in other way like bed bugs of furniture. If any household furniture is costly enough, and then tries to dry up and remove moisture from it as soon as possible, to use it again as it is.

  1. Increase Air Circulation in Home

Try to increase max to max air circulation by operating fans on for speedy drying carpet. You may take on rent some special wet drying fans and dehumidifier machines from wet carpet cleaning company or can appoint them for doing same with effective way to prevent from growing mould. The special wet cleaning dehumidifier is more effective in pull out moisture from the air and make moisture free home by removing build up mould.

  1. Check Padding of Carpet

Separate the padding of carpet which is made from pressed rebound materials. This is also best way to quick drying of both padding and carpet using vacuums and dehumidifiers or fans. The most important is to dry up water by back side of carpet that is padding. If padding is dried up totally, then it is easy to attach again for long lasting life. This process helps in speeding up of drying wet carpet.

  1. Steam Cleaning

The most effective method for wet carpet is professional steam cleaning. As steam cleaning itself is water extraction method. Using hot water and steam machine whole wet carpet can be dried up within some counting hours. It removes moisture quickly. Also, removes and kills toxin of any types, removes dead mould and stop growing mould with high heat temperature.

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  1. Sanitize your home

After completion of dry cleaning, take initiative actions to prevent your carpet and home from further damages. You may apply solution of bleaching on your carpet and other areas to sanitize and clean properly so that none mould can survive anymore and no stains also there to be found after shampooing and bleaching.

  1. Use drying professional service

Only give preference to professional dry cleaners to clean your home carpet as they are giving most suitable service first then applying dry cleaning to clean carpet as new one. They apply the chemical free product to clean the wet carpet, so as result, mould, moisture and other harmful factors you can’t find anything in your home anymore. That means they apply service according to future prevention also.

  1. Carpet Replacement if needed

If you observe that your carpet has no life longer, totally destroyed and damaged due to water, then instead of applying any cleaning method, only one solution is there for you. That is replacing carpet. So, check and examine your carpet properly, then make your final decision.

How to Prevent to Carpet after Drying from Mould

Once your carpet is dried up, now think about how to prevent it in future from mould, bacteria and allergenic germs in moisture odor. For that you can apply some steps to prevent:

  • Clean out your gutters, so that water can easily pass away through the pipeline to gutters.
  • Check your garden area, slope of outside house and landscaping area to supply water properly.
  • Clean all pipelines and pumps to avoid flooding type situation again.
  • Check and observe all cracks in your house and sealed them with proper solution to prevent your flooring and other parts of home from insects.
  • Use water drains for heavy rain water as prevention method at your home.

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