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How to Clean Water Damaged Carpet

If you did not hire a professional carpet cleaning Carpet Cleaning service, then you might be facing a problem with your carpet. It must have probably been damaged by water, specially the under pad. Now you might need to replace your carpet as it would probably be stinking badly and is now in ruins. An even worse case would be if you bought your carpet from turkey and you would need to make another trip for it. Worry not, all is not lost and you can make up for your mistakes, by hiring a professional carpet cleaning North Shore service. This option will still be very expensive for most consumers, for them it is up to a, “do it yourself” job. You can follow a few tips to clean your wet carpet without causing much damage.

The first thing to do is fixing the cause of the problem. You should see if the water came from a pipe of fresh water or a pipe carrying human waste. It is vital to know, what kind of water affected the carpet, as presence of bacteria is to be taken into account. If the water contains bacteria, then you have no choice, but to choose a carpet cleaning service. For a carpet affected by clean water, the process of carpet cleaning would require a wet and dry vacuum cleaner. This way you will easily be able to pull out the water from the fibers. It is advisable to vacuum immediately after you see water on the carpet. This would ensure that no further harm is done to the carpet.

Once the water is out, then next step in carpet cleaning is drying. You can use an electric fan to dry the carpet or a hair dryer or even dry it in the sun, if you are able to. Now even though the water was clean, you would still need to sanitize the carpet. You can buy a sanitizing solution for this purpose. Just be careful to select the cleaning solution, some low quality solutions can damage the looks of the carpet. If you are unsure about this, then consult you carpet cleaning North Shore services. Lastly you will need to ensure that nothing remains in the carpet so vacuum it several times before putting it back in its place. This may seem a painstaking task, which may even take days to complete, but I will save you a lot of money. You can follow part of this method and then call a carpet cleaning North Shore service to do the rest, it would minimize the costs.