Are you up to your ankles in water and up to your neck in OMG! Allow me to save you some heartache and give you a very good suggestion: Log off of the computer and call a professional.
If you won’t listen to reason and call a professional carpet person, I’ll try to help you out the best I can.
If you follow these steps you should have your carpet back to normal.
• Always start by putting on some gloves. If you don’t you’ll wish you did. Wet carpet is gross but that’s not the main reason. There’s tack strip around the edges and it would love to make you bleed.
• Release the edge of the carpet from the tack strip by pulling up on it.
• Get the wet padding out of there. Cut it into small strips and stuff it into garbage bags.
• Use a mop or a wet-vac to dry the floor
• Lay the carpet back down flat again and extract as much of the excess water as you can using a wet-vac.
• Now it’s time to blow dry the wet carpet. Go to the rental place and rent a blower or two. Set it up and allow it to dry the carpet. If the weather is humid it’s going to take longer, also if the carpet is very thick it will take longer.
• After the carpet is completely dry you can install new padding. Use a slotted blade knife with a brand new sharp blade for ever 2 or 3 cuts.
• Stretch the carpet back into place with a power stretcher that you can rent where you rented the blowers. While you’re there rent a kicker, you’ll need it to fully position the carpet over the tack strip.
• Finally you can tuck the carpet in around the edges with a stair tool or a flat chisel or even a butter knife.
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