How to ● Dry a Wet Fitted Basement Carpet ( With Little Effort ! )
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This is by far the easiest way to dry a wet fitted carpet in your basement. You have a choice of 3 things. Remove it and toss it, remove it and hang it out to dry or leave it where it is and create a small slit in the carpet and sit back and relax while it dries. It is by far the easiest method to completely dry it without removing it by only creating a small slit. First use your shop vac to suck up as much of the water as you can, secondly, cut a small slit in the carpet in a non traffic or hidden area big enough to insert the end of a shop vac. Thirdly, attach the shop vac hose to the blowing side of the shop vac and take the other end and insert it into the slit in the carpet. Now the easy part starts. Just turn on the vacuum and watch the whole carpet levitate from the warm shop vac air being blown between the carpet and the floor. The warm air will travel threw all the fibres of the carpet evenly and dry it. Now let it run for days until it is dry. Shop vacs can run for very long periods of time without a problem. It's best to not leave it running while you are not at home just to be sure. Once it's dry you can try cutting a slit in the under-padding and blow the air between the padding and floor to help it dry further. Sometimes the under-padding isn't porous enough to let air escape so experiment to see if it will work. Good luck. You don't need it though. This is too easy!
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What a great idea! Sucked up excess water with Bissell carpet machine, laid towels down and walked on them, then cut a slit in the carpet, stuck a crevice cleaning tool in it, hooked up the old Shop Vac, and wow! What a relief. Thanks Chris.
It took me close to 4 days of running the dry vac, but it worked! Apparently close to a dozen of my neighbors had their basements also flooded. They are still drying out their basements. I will have to share your great tip! TY ♥️
Great job!
I am so thankful I found this video! We had a toilet overflow on Christmas Eve. With no choice but to deal with wet carpet on our own (during Christmas )I found this video. I was sure I was going to need replace. After 2 days of doing this (with dehumidifier) it is bone dry. Thanks so much for posting this!
Glad it was helpful!
You just saved me over $500 in fan rental fees!!! Thank you SO much for posting this!!!
Well Chris, the tank of water above us flooded our flat because some copper pipes went missing. My daughter' s bran new carpet she had paid for herself with some of her gap year money was soaked in water ready for the tip...now then... I saw your video last night, went to Screwfix this morning to get another Titan (mine had lost the blower tube) followed your instructions exactly and the rest you all know. It is now drying beautifully guys. You have made a lot of people happy. She just started Uni at St Andrews and won't be broken hearted when she comes home
Hands down THE BEST method for cleaning a wet carpet, this video saves thousands and needs to stay on top! Thanks for recording it!
i used the sucking part of the vacuum under the carpet to suck up as much water as you can before blowing. Thanks for THE BEST method for cleaning a wet carpet.
I saw this video a day ago. I purchased wet/dry head vac that fits over a 5 Gal. bucket for only $21. I works wonderfully as described. . Thank you. Chris.
Thank you for your video! We had some ground water come into to our basement and soak our carpet and pad. I am using two 6.5 shop vacs, one mine and the other borrowed from a neighbor. I am currently drying about 740 sq feet. Instead of cutting a hole I just lifted the carpet in the corners of the room or where it ends at a doorway. It is amazing how far the air blows underneath. The carpet and pad are drying fantastically. I plan to buy a carpet stretcher from harbor freight for about $22 to put the corners back in place after the drying process. So far it’s been about 20 hours of drying and I have seen a HUGE difference. I’m expecting about 3 days to complete the entire area. Once again, many thanks for you video!!
Thank you so much for this idea. A pvc pipe broke and in 10 minutes my bathroom was flooded and it overflowed into the bedroom. Your tip saved me so much money. I can't thank you enough for your video 💯💯
Same here, I bumped my PVC toilet valve with a mop. It took me nearly 5 minutes to dig out the water meter's main valve just to cut it off. The city had installed new mains a couple years ago. Which I discoved, are about a foot deeper than the old ones. Was really glad to find his tip, it prolly saved me $1000s!
Thank you for your advice. We have just gone through the worst rain in over 20 years in Sydney Australia and your tips saved us a lot of trouble. It worked a treat! Thank you so much!
EXCEPTIONAL technique and thank you for it! It did a splendid job of drying the carpet and especially if you can get the end of the vacuum under the underlay. The blowing creates a little vibration as the carpet levitates so you get levitation, heat, and vibration to do a fantastic job of drying out the carpet and underlay and floor too. I also found I could use the wet-dry vacuum extensions and push these further under the carpet and underlay to extend the drying action. We had a hot water tank leak that seaped into the carpet nearby.
All we had to do was sacrifice a bit of carpet to create that X with a knife to insert the vac hose and then set some furniture over it afterwards. Thx again!
Our water heater decided to leak and now the whole carpet in the room is wet... what do I do? Where can I buy that?
Thank you so much for this great tip. I would add, that we also rented a carpet cleaner to pull the water out of the carpet first.
The idea I great ! Only thing is if the water level was high enough I would pop off the baseboards as mold will grow pretty fast behind them ! And this method will dry the drywall no problem! ( I work in building restoration and deal with water damage every day) good video !
Amazing video and idea.... dealing with a large leak from the water line to my humidifier right now.... large carpet area soaked in the basement. Also appreciate the beginning of the video with the shop vac attachment ideas. Stayed up half the night vacuuming the rug with no attachments!
Thank you so much for this video. My fridge had a leak in the back that seeped through to my living room floor before I caught it. My neighbor loaned me his shop vac and it’s working like a charm. I was so worried. You saved us much effort and money! I also sprayed with a de-fungal that I got from the garden department. It’s all natural ingredients and won’t harm your floors. Patti in San Diego
WOW!! i am doing this to my rug right now its awesome. just like you said this is great... i spent day one sucking up as much water as i could, this is day two, i cut the hole in the rug and voila. the rug is vibrating 🙂 The first last time my basement apt. got water i waited almost a week and a half for my rug to dry just using fans and a heater.. thank you again
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS! 3 Days of fans and a dehumidifier did nothing. 10 hours of the shop vac method and the carpet was dry.
Searching for solutions and I happened upon this video -- great idea - implementing it now. Cutting the carpet and using the blower feature on wet/dry vacuum is brilliant.
Thank you so much Chris. You saved me. Within 2 days all water gone. Thank you once again.
Thank you!!
I would also add that I rented an extractor from home depot to get as much water as possible and then used this technique to dry it. I did make multiple holes in the room because of the amount of wetness. I literally had water under the carpet.
EDIT: To add too, I was in a basement when this happened too and had access to a drain. I did MULTIPLE go overs with the extractor first. It was alot of work with the extractor over a 2-3days. It was alot of water with the carpet boiling up with water to start. Once I felt the water was mostly gone, I used this technique with multiple air vacs in corners of the room pointing towards the center and let them run for 24+ hours over multiple days.
Did you cut the padding too or only the carpet?
@@supra2k8 some of the corners I did, mostly by accident.
@@Abeja1225 thanks
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for this very helpful email. I had a water heater soak a wall to wall carpet. I had NO IDEA that the air would "levatate" or circulate UNDER the carpet (thus drying out the pad and concrete (in my case) underneath). LOVE the idea of cutting the x in inconspious place and sealing it up (another life (&and carpet) saver. I let this run for 2 plus days ( I was a bit concerned about shop vac motor "buring out" but they works like champs. I was also running multiple floor fans (might not have bben necessary with this method) AND a dehumidifier. Thank you again for this AWESOME video!
Thank you soooo much!! This did work after our dishwasher flooded all over our carpet.
Phenomenal idea. I have a huge basement and I had to use 4 shop vacs 6.5. Nevertheless, it saved me a ton of money. You are one smart man and a good one at it for sharing the idea.
Send me the link pls
We had days of rain that ended a few days ago. Our theater room carpet is so soaked. We got gallons of water up, but it’s still very wet. We’ve been running fans for about 4 days, then I came across your video. We own two wet/dry vacs, so I just started your process and can’t wait to check it out in 48 hours! I’ll let you know the results!
Any result?
A big part of our basement carpeting was wet after a water back up. Using towels, towels, and more towels we got the top fairly dry but not enough. Then, using two shop vacs, one mine and one an uncle's we followed the directions in this video, lifting the carpeting at the edges and pushing the tube underneath both the carpet and pad. (Didn't have to cut the carpet that way) I used longish screws, drilled them into the carpeting and pad to lift them up further than the vac alone would do. It took a lot of work, but after two weeks of leaving the vacs running all day, not at night, we saved the carpeting and pad. I also used a dehumidifier a lot. Great idea! Thank you!
That's great. The humidifiers are a great addition along with patience. With time they dry right up. Glad it worked for you.
Thanks Tom. 2 weeks such a lot of patience.
Thanku so much have an engagement party and I was extremely worried!!!! Thank you!!!
Really brilliant idea. So practicable and easy to do. Spent hours on google before come across this tip on UA-cam. Thanks!
Good video, a new approach to an ancient problem. A+
Thank you so much Chris. You are a lifesaver. The shop vac is running and half of the room is dry. Thank you again. :)
This is fantastic! I already had started vacuuming the water. The blower is not something I’d thought of though. It’s so easy!
Nice it's like a cheap carpet fan :)
I'm currently doing this. Had flooding in my upstairs guest room from the nextdoor bathroom. Been over 24 hrs and the rug is much dryer already. The issue is my downstairs also flooded so I've been running the vac between the up and downstairs floors thru a whole I made. Great video
OMG, thank you for this video. You may have just saved me a small fortune!!
Glad I could help!
Bruh! THANK YOU 😊 For this video!! Yesterday, I was mopping my bathroom floor and I accidentally hit the toilet water valve too hard. Water came gushing out of the wall directed right toward the door and into the office carpet! Uuuuggggh!! I ran and grabbed the main valve tool and flew outside! I had to dig up 2 feet of sand just to get to the cut off. The water must have ran 3 to 4 minutes, since it flooded the whole middle of the room! I worked until 5 am in the morning sucking up the excess water with a shop vac and a capet cleaner. I put fans out and fell asleep! Today the capret is damp but I was sure the pad was a soaked disaster! Then I found your video and cut the slit into the carpet. The pad was still soaked underneath! I put the vaccume on blow and so far after 3 hours, it's almost bone dry! THANK YOU BRO! I wasn't ready to put in new carpet, you have saved the day for me!
Big help! I used your under the carpet idea but used an electric leaf blower. Released a few sections of tack strip to slide under the blower tip. It's doing the job, just a bit noisy!
Yeah, very loud. I live in a small townhouse complex and I don’t think I cannot have my vac 24 to 48 hrs running….lol
Thank You!! This is working well for drying up our basement carpet. Excellent idea!
Thank you, your tip works great. Spent $40 for a shop vac at Lowes.
This is awesome, I used a leaf blower with easy access at a doorway.
Thank you for this video, it worked perfectly. My washer malfunctioned and soaked my basement carpet.
Hey Chris, wonderful video, my sump pump stop working and i didn't know about this, just found water all over under my carpet, i will try your method before trying something else, thank you!
Thanks for that! If you had your sump pump fail, I also made a video on that too!......ua-cam.com/video/aTIfF8AfeH8/v-deo.html
Thanks for this helpful idea! GFC stained the concrete floor in my sun room and left me with a sopping wet under-felt over a large area of my adjacent living room. After several days of struggling with fans and a dehumidifier, I now tucked my shop vac in there instead. I keep moving it on the hour, to spread the air some over the large area, since the carpet has an open end to the sun room. Taped it shut with painters tape to minimize the escaping air. THANKS A LOT!
Ingenious, worked great for me but burned out the motor in my small shop vac. Tip to share is the Bucket Max from ShopVac, $25 is cheaper than another whole shop vac.
Awesome! What a great idea! Well done Chris!
Fantastic idea and video. Also, thank you so much for the written instructions! Doing this now 🤞🏼
Glad it was helpful!
Wooo now I can dry my carpet thanks
This method worked for me. Instead of cutting I went in by removing a transition strip.
This saves my life !
Thank you for sharing, I am definitely going to try this with my recently flooded finished off basement” I did use commercial grade short nap carpet with no padding underneath, so I think this will work pretty darn good. Thanks
Thanks. This is a lifesaver.
Thanks so very much!! I was having a lot of trouble trying to dry the carpet from just the top. Instant subscriber.
It's been a couple of years since I first found this when trying to clean up a flood in our basement. It worked great then, and still works great now in the rest of the basement floods we've had. One helpful think I've found to do is to use the sucking part of the vacuum under the carpet to suck up as much water as you can before blowing. You can usually get a lot of it up without any effort.
Thank you for this video! I think my padding held that water and I ended up peeling it back to help dry it out. Mildew smell was present after 24hrs when peeling it back.
Works brilliantly!
@chrisnotap this is genius you saved my carpet after a terrible flood with little effort!!thank you for your time!!!!
It really does work and with little effort. Glad I could help.
About how long until I start seeing solid results? I’ve been going about 8 hours and I’m not too sure if it’s working like I assumed
Bless you thank you soooooooo much 🙏 ❤️ 💖 You are my Angel
thank you so much!!! we were about to remove all the carpet and it would have cost us a fortune
the problem: When you have a carpet with a rubber / spongy carpet pad. A large amount of water will be trapped under the pad that is laying on concrete. Unfornitly this cannot be dried without removing the pad. If you don't dry / remove the soaked pad, you now have to worry about mold, witch is harder to get rid of the moisture
Yea thats my problem right now what should I do
We had the same issue about the rubber carpet pad, so we lifted the carpet on the side slightly and put the vaacum tube under the pad for a long time. It dried the pad and subsequently the carpet
Once you dry the carpet with this method, why couldn’t you cut through the pad as well and put the hose underneath the pad to try and bring that off the floor with the same method? Of course the pad and the carpet would be heavier so you might need to either cut one or two holes or use a longer vacuum wand to get farther underneath the pad.
Thanks Mariam and Cruishark. I will try that
@@ledang9584 No problem, we have a carpet in one of our upstairs bedrooms that got partially soaked, meaning not the whole area, but the carpet and the underpad both soaked in one large area. I was able to get the shopvac wand under both the carpet and underpad from two access points, one being a transition area to the bathroom tile, and a hole I cut like he demonstrated in the video. so I dried the carpet first, then got underneath the underpad. I did have to use Gorilla tape to block off the area around the wand so air couldn't escape. That way the carpet and underpad both came up off the floor when the vacuum was on. Both took a day or two each. After that I sprayed mold inhibitor with a spray canister and wand. The carpet is now dry and doesn't smell at all so it seemed to work very well.
this worked like a charm, thanks for sharing
Perfection. Thank you.
You sir!!! yes you... R the man👨
Man you saved my Azzzzz!!!! You are a genius
In process now but looks like it’s working well, thank you
Not sure why you need to cut a hole in the carpet. You could just pull up the edge from the tackless strip and run the hose under it. When the carpet is dry just push the carpet back down onto the strip. If it needs a little tightening you can do that too pretty easily.
Thanks sir its doing wonders for my carpeted basement
Looks easy, wonder how long it will take and how big a area I can dry at one time. Need to find how to repair the holes.
Tropical Storm Elsa came thru Massachusetts yesterday 7/9/21 and dumped a few inches of water on us. Went to my basement this am and my rug near the basement door is soaking wet. Found a downspout that became dislodged and the force of the water washed away the soil. It then seeped through the foundation. Going to try this method. Fingers crossed!!
Thanks!
Hi there! We are trying your technique as I type! Do you happen to know if we can run the blower on the Ridgid Wet Vac overnight?
Yes you can! Just make sure the bag is clean and free to flow air. Good luck!
Thanks so much for this! Our air conditioning unit seems to be leaking a lot onto the carpet and we've been unable to keep it dry. I'll have to try this method tonight!
Did it work
Hey Chris! You are amazing! Thank you so much for the idea!
Pure F@#$ing genius! Even better my vac can remove the blower so I can hook the large hose directly to it with a car attachment and just float the entire carpet. Hot damn thank you sir!
I also found if you place the hose where it rumbles or makes the carpet vibrate that will generate heat drying the carpet faster in the process.
Thanks Dad
old video but still helpful. if the section of carpet you need to dry is only around 5x5ish you can just the blower option with but attachment and do it little by little. Itll be tedious but finish much faster.
So, my bedroom has been flooding recently, and I bought a dehumidifier. I works just fine but takes a few days, especially when it's constantly raining and adding water. I used my carpet cleaning machine to suck up the water. But I never heard of using the shop vacation to Baloo blow a carpet. I might try that along with the dehumidifier to take out the last if the moisture that lingers and is hard for the dehumidifier to pull out when the air humidity is still high. Thanks for the insight!
Good video I bought a wet dry vac at Harbor freight I should do the trick thank you
Thank you!! 🙌🏽
The small X, genius
Thank you sir for a superb money saving tip. I had an overflowing toilet bowl that flooded my private bathroom and adjoining bedroom with 2" of water before I found it. The carpet was saturated with water about 3-4 feet into my bedroom carpet from the bathroom entrance. I went into panic mode knowing this was going to be a costly project. Initially, I used a Rainbow vacuum cleaner to suck up as much water as i could and started thinking how I was going to get the water from the pad underneath the carpet. It would never dry unless you pulled it up and dried with fans or replace it. Should I call a commercial company and have them fix the problem or have the carpet replaced I asked my self and then I saw your video. I purchased a wet/dry vac from Lowes and followed your instructions and 8-10 hours later, I had a dry carpet and pad. The area to be dried wasn't that large so it didn't take take too long. I can't imagine how much money people have saved that used your procedure. Thank you so much.
PS I have never seen a toilet bowl overflow that didn't have a stoppage in the drain pipes. The flapper valve in the tank didn't close properly so continuous water was flowing into the bowl until it overflowed. I flushed the toilet immediately when I found the problem so there was no stoppage. I also simulated the problem several times and I cant get it to overflow again so I am in a quandary on why it happened. Maybe you or some of the readers can offer some advice on this issue. Thanks again.
I had the exact same problem and no idea what happened. Flapper open for about three hours with continuous running. Bowl was empty but floor had about an inch of water.
Sounds like yall might have a bad toilet ring, they're usually made out of wax and either get damaged during the installation or use, or degrades over time. I'm replacing all of mine with rubber rings.
What if the carpet is really wet? We had a huge rainstorm, looks like the water came up through the slab.
I wonder if, in extreme cases, you could cut 2 crosses then put your blower in one to lift the carpet and the suction one in another to remove the water
Absolute genius
I used the same technique to dry behind the drywall after a minor basement flood.
Very smart idea It worked for me , Thank you so much for uploading this video
+Jith P.S Great to hear!!
Awesome! Saved me so much time and money!
Thank you!! We're going to try this in a bit. I'm concerned we might have mold in the walls surrounding the carpet, if so, could this possibly spread mold spores?? Thank you!
Thank you! VERY good idea.
I wonder... it might be possible to cut a slightly longer line, vs an X, and thus easier to hide the hole...
Yes. Cut whatever shape is best for you. What you suggest would be fine.
I just cut a slit into mine, and it's working great!
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you!
Thank You This Was Helpfully
that is amazing and brilliant lol.
thank you for sharing.. i'm definitely going to try it .
youre awesome!
thank you, you are a life saver and money saver!!
Wow what a genius 🙏
Awesome video brother ,very helpful thank you so much
Thank you. That's a good idea!
I just tried it and it's working our subpump back to battery went dead and we had a big storm and we lost power for over 18 hours and our back up battery went dead and we came home from work with water in our basement. My wife and I have been working on getting our carpet dried up and it was a slow process and I was thinking how can I dry the carpet with out taking it up and when I seen this video I said to myself what the hell I will give it a try and it's working. After I had all four of my shop vac's up and running I looking at the carpet and I said we'll S*** LMAO it's working.
Wow… thanks
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