Removing Wet Carpet Padding
Return to the corner of the room where you began and get down on all fours.
Removing wet carpet padding. The carpet padding may come up in portions or pieces with some of the pieces left sticking to the sub flooring. If the carpet got wet at any point in time it may be sticking to the floor. Photo courtesy of angie s list member peera n. In this case use a floor scraper to remove the pieces of padding that remain stuck to the floor.
Don t rush this step. The best way to dry wet carpet is by using a wet dry vacuum if you don t have one you can rent one from a local hardware store. Pulling up the carpet to pull up the carpet start by removing the baseboard or molding along the walls. Carpet with no pad.
It may take a little elbow grease and a few tools. It s possible to remove carpet padding that s stuck to the floor. The first step to drying out carpet padding and carpeting post flood is actually removing the water. You ll want to move the extractor slowly across the carpet to suck up as much water as possible.
Step 3 remove the carpet padding. Use pliers to pull padding staples when removing carpet from stairs. Cut the pad into strips roll it up and haul it outside. Tough spots might require a power oscillating tool.
This will be quicker than using a back and forth motion. You also may find that the carpet padding is disintegrating. Once the water is out peel back the carpeting watch out for those rusted sharp nails on the tackless stripping and remove the wet pad. Carefully remove all the water you can with a wet vac by slowly moving the nozzle over the whole area to remove the water.
Sweep the areas of the floor from which you able to remove the loose larger pieces of carpet pad. Of irvine calif get quotes from up to 3 carpet cleaners. Remove as much moisture as possible with a wet dry vacuum. On a concrete floor the carpet pad is often glued into place.
Begin to pull the carpet padding up. Also if you don t know how to manage the carpet water damage yourself consider hiring a water damage company.