Water damage service · Arizona
Wet carpet and pad drying
Carpet soaked with clean water can often be extracted, dried and saved if work starts within about a day; the foam pad underneath is usually replaced because it holds water and is inexpensive. Carpet soaked with sewage, floodwater or water that sat for days is normally removed.
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Carpet hides how wet a floor really is. The top fibers can feel nearly dry while the pad is saturated and water is sitting on the slab. In a desert home that smell of damp carpet usually means the pad, not the carpet, is holding the moisture.
A technician extracts water with weighted tools that squeeze the pad, checks the edges and tack strip, and decides whether to float the carpet in place, pull the pad, or remove everything. Where water came from matters as much as how much there is.
Wet carpet & pad at a glance
- Often saved
- Carpet wet with clean supply water, dried within 24–48 hours
- Usually replaced
- Pad; carpet after sewage, floodwater or long exposure
- Also checked
- Tack strip, baseboards, drywall and the slab
- Watch for
- Delamination, shrinking, odor, staining
- Mold risk
- Starts within 24–48 hours in wet pad
Signs you need help
- Carpet feels damp or cool along the walls
- A musty or sour smell in one room
- Dark rings or brown staining (browning) as carpet dries
- Carpet rippling or pulling away from the tack strip
- Water visible when pressing the carpet near a bathroom or laundry
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(833) 893-1539What the restoration company does
- 1
Identify the water
Clean supply water, gray appliance water or contaminated water are handled differently.
- 2
Extract
Weighted extraction tools pull water out of carpet and pad; pad is usually lifted and discarded.
- 3
Dry in place or remove
Carpet may be floated with air underneath and dried with the room; contaminated carpet is removed.
- 4
Clean and reinstall
Carpet is cleaned, re-stretched and new pad installed once the slab reads dry.
What affects the cost
Every loss is different, so there's no honest flat price. These are the factors that move the estimate:
- Square footage of wet carpet
- Pad replacement area
- Water category
- Moving furniture
- Re-stretching, cleaning or replacement
Safe to do yourself
- Stop the source of water
- Lift furniture onto blocks or foil
- Blot small clean spills with towels and run fans
Stop and call if
- The pad is soaked across more than a small area
- Water came from a toilet, sewer or outside
- Carpet has been wet for more than a day
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(833) 893-1539Wet carpet & pad questions
Can wet carpet be saved?
Why does wet carpet smell even after it feels dry?
Should I use a carpet cleaner to suck up the water?
What is carpet browning?
Does the tack strip need to be replaced?
Is wet carpet covered by insurance?
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Water where it shouldn't be?
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