Carpet Cleaning Water Damage

This article explains how to clean, save and restore the water damaged carpet.

Prepare the Carpet for Cleaning

Using a thin screwdriver or an awl, pick up a corner of the carpet. If you have a tack trip, be very very careful! It's quite easy to prick yourself on the sharp and often rusty nails.

If You Don't Have a Tack Strip:
The water damaged carpet is glued down. This means that you don't have padding.

If You DO Have a Tack Strip:
Tack strips usually mean you have padding. Any padding that's affected needs to be yanked out.

Padding:

Padding will always have to be entirely trashed. Don't even think of saving it - it will get moldy.

Treatment & Cleaning of the Carpet:

Using either a pump-up sprayer or a household sprayer, spray the back of the carpet. Once again, I highly recommend using a pump up sprayer with a large tank, or at least two to three coats of both your deodorizer and disinfectant. If you are using a hand held trigger sprayer or aerosol, make sure to put down 2-3 coats! This will unsure the backside of your carpet cleaning water damage is done for good.

For the top of the carpet, you must clean it with both deodorizer and sanitizer. A carpet cleaning machine from your hardware store will do the trick. Move furniture and other items around so that you successfully clean every square inch of the carpet. Don't cheat around ANY furniture! Since you have already extracted your carpet with a wet/dry vacuum and cleaned it, the carpet should no longer be very wet. If it still is, you must extract and/or clean it further.

That concludes the carpet cleaning water damage associated with your water damage issue.