best way to dry carpet?

[cgrant]

Well...It is now day 4 and my basement carpet is still damp around the fish tank?
4 days back my 2 year old turned the red knob all the way up on my coralife ss220, i didnt notice until the carpet was already wet and my wife just called me b!t$#%^& about the carpet still being damp.
I am installing magnetic locks when i get home!
I have my de-humidifier running 24x7 but my carpet is still damp!
I am lucky I have a stand that is real wood and not the partical board stuff or else i would be tearing down the 210.
Anyone know a trick to get the carpet dried out faster?
Man...If its not one thing it's another!

 

[hardcrab67]

Wet-vac and a hair dryer or heat gun. I know I had a couple gallons spill on one of those cheap stands, but it did flatten back out, still got to replace it though.

 

[oceana]

go to home depot and rent one of those carpet fans . carpet cleaning companys and painters use them to help things dray faster. should run you around 25 bucks for the day.
just leave it running for the day while at work and it will be dry by the time you get home.
this assumes you used a wet dry to remove as much water as you can first

 

[rs1831]

Run a fan in front of it...

 

[cgrant]

yup, i have a couple of wet dry's i had to bust out when it happened, but still damp.
I will have to look into the fan rental!
Thanks!
I had the cheapo locks on the tank and my 2 year old has already figured out how to open them, i dont know if i should be proud or pissed? LOL!!!

 

[rs1831]

Do you have just a regular house fan? If not just go to walmart or something and buy a cheap box fan. That should help out.

 

[cgrant]

I have box fans in the garage, i will try that 1st.
Thanks Guy's!
Chris

 

[xxxgreg]

the best way to dry it up. open some windows in the area , use a shop vac on it and try to pull as much water out of it as you can. and put some fans on it . after years of doing carpets I will tell you if you cant do all this just get the windows open carpet will dry faster with a few open windows than with what your doing now. you have to get the humidity out of the room and the fastest way is open windows what your doing now is not doing that it just sucking the water out of the air and storing it in a tank so its still in the room.

 

[merredeth]

One word - Dehumidifier.
Denise M.

 

[maeistero]

Originally Posted by Merredeth
One word - Dehumidifier.
Denise M.

word! fans won't do anything compared to a big dehumidifier in a day.

 

[merredeth]

Originally Posted by maeistero
word! fans won't do anything compared to a big dehumidifier in a day.

Like I said, a dehumidifier is the best way to remove the water.
I have a dehumidifier in the basement and when I had a pipe blowout, after using a wet dry vac, the dehumidifier took care of the rest in one day.
I also poured baking soda on my carpet to help absorb any possible odors that would have come up. In a day that was dry enough to vacuum.
Denise M.