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Rivk
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 Mon, Dec 19 2005, 8:37 pm
One of our toilets overflowed today.  The mess in the bathroom is cleaned up and disinfected, and the toilet will hopefully be fixed tomorrow, but the problem is that a smallish portion of the carpeting in the adjoining room is soaking wet. Has anyone successfully dried out/ disinfected carpeting before? Do I need to call a professional? Yuck!
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happyone
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Mon, Dec 19 2005, 11:28 pm
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can't help, but I'll sympathize with you....
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stem
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Mon, Dec 19 2005, 11:37 pm
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First thing to do is dry the carpets. Put a couple of fans blowing directly on it 24/7 till it's totally dry. You don't want mold growing under there. I don't know about disinfecting, but wouldn't regular carpet cleaner do the job?
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SMG
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Mon, Dec 19 2005, 11:38 pm
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You can rent deep cleaning/steaming machines with special cleanser at most grocery stores and they usually work to clean and remove moisture. If the carpet is still wet, try a wet/dry vac.
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realeez
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Wed, Dec 21 2005, 11:04 am
do you have a padded layer under the carpet? that is usually where the mold starts growing b/c it doesn't dry with carpet on top. the best bet is to use the wet vac on your carpet to extract the water, then put a blower under the carpet on top of the pad until it dries.
if it doesn't dry quickly boy will it stink! we learned the hard way... but a proffesional carpet cleaner really fixed it for us.
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