How to Remove Water from Wet Carpet, Pad, Basement Flood Damage Cleanup

How to remove water from a flooded wet carpet and pad. Best way for water removal from a wet carpet and pad using a wet vac for small areas. Using a wet vac to remove water from a flooded basement. Some helpful tips and tricks used to get your flooded carpet dry. Your shop vac actually sucks pretty hard but it usually does not have the proper tool for extracting water out of carpet. Getting the water out of the pad is the real trick to keep from having a stinky smelly carpet and pad. please see videos on pumping flooded basement water with different size pumps.
Good luck with your water pumping situations and for more information about pumping out basements please check out my other videos on "How to Pump out a Flooded Basement #1, #2, #3, #4
Always check the walls to make sure that you do not leave them damp, as this could cause a situation for mold removal.
For water Removal service in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Please Call AAA Flood Drying at 978-392-1895

[@habzi7864]

My basement got flooded thru the well windows. I watched this video and called the guy in the video. He was very helpful in giving me tips on how to clean the carpet. I wish he was a local guy so I could have used his services. Thanks much for your help. I will try out the tips. Thanks for sharing your experience at not cost :) and thanks for your time and efforts.

[@aaaflooddrying]

Very good idea. That is similar to how water damage used to be done about 20 years ago. It does work. It has evolved over many generations of improvements since then. There are many different methods that you can use to remove water from a carpet. Some better than others, But the end goal is the same, get the water out of the wet carpet and pad, dry out and prevent mold damage.
Clay

[@mariegra1]

Clay, thank you so much for speaking with me on a Sunday morning! I truly appreciated your advice, both on your video as well as with speaking with you by phone on how to deal with wet carpeting in our basement caused by an overflowing dehumidifier. We'll be pulling up the carpet and pad today in our Nashua home. You were very helpful--and thanks so much!!!

[@Nathanallenpinard]

Hi there. So we had seepage in our basement. We still don't know where the water came from, but presumably it's from a window sill that clearly had cracked molding. It was concentrate in on particular spot. It took roughly 48 hours for me to find a shop vac and research what to do. We didn't hire anyone for moisture removal because we didn't know if the moisture was still coming in. The only sign is the carpet was wet. Not sopping wet where it made sound, but wet. We started sopping it up with towels the minute it happens, now we vac'd it, and it pulls up beads of moisture on the edge (with a standard attachment), we then cut an X in the carpet and stuck the hose of the 6.5 peak HP vac in there, and the ENTIRE room is levitating the carpet now, along with fans and a space heater running for about 3 days straight if possible (so far just 6 hours). After all this, I'm concerned we wasted time. It may be roughly 4-5 days after it was wet once it gets dry. I haven't seen visible mold yet, and the pad is damp but is supposed to resist mold. Is this going to be something safe, or are we going to have to gut that room? (Note: There is that mildew smell, but it's weakening as we suck up moisture and dry)

[@jesseburns6191]

regarding calling a professional, where in the yellow pages do I look?under what heading/title?

[@aaaflooddrying]

Fire and Flood Restoration.

[@amberness4486]

Thank you so much for this video!! You're a lifesaver! :)

[@dgkman5310]

good stuff