Removing Wet Carpet Padding

The best way to dry wet carpet is by using a wet dry vacuum if you don t have one you can rent one from a local hardware store.

Removing wet carpet padding.

Once the water is out peel back the carpeting watch out for those rusted sharp nails on the tackless stripping and remove the wet pad. On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place. It s possible to remove carpet padding that s stuck to the floor. You ll want to move the extractor slowly across the carpet to suck up as much water as possible.

Carpet with no pad. Throw away the debris. Pulling up the carpet to pull up the carpet start by removing the baseboard or molding along the walls. Carefully remove all the water you can with a wet vac by slowly moving the nozzle over the whole area to remove the water.

Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. You also may find that the carpet padding is disintegrating. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor. Also if you don t know how to manage the carpet water damage yourself consider hiring a water damage company.

Remove as much moisture as possible with a wet dry vacuum. They can determine if the carpet can be saved or if it needs to be removed. If the carpet got wet at any point in time it may be sticking to the floor. It may take a little elbow grease and a few tools.

This will be quicker than using a back and forth motion. Begin to pull the carpet padding up. Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours. The first step to drying out carpet padding and carpeting post flood is actually removing the water.

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Cut the pad into strips roll it up and haul it outside. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs.