Ripped Up My Carpet And Found Some Brown Stuff

There are also a few stains here and there.

Ripped up my carpet and found some brown stuff. Mold growth under the carpet. Whenever i can get everyone out of the house for a weekend i plan to sand and stain and varnish too. The color is caused by the mold colony multiplying on your carpet. There is a wide range of things that can cause odors and stains on carpets.

Most of the time these patches are white black or various shades of green. To remove the carpet you cut a slit in the carpet near a wall grip the carpet and pry it up off the tack points along one side. Green white or black growth on the carpet. In most cases when the mold growth reaches an advanced stage you can see discolored patches on your carpet.

The padding may need to be replaced as will the carpet in some cases. From there it s a simple matter to roll up the carpet and haul it. In order to remove black mold from carpet the first thing you ll need to do is locate and eradicate the source of moisture. We ripped up our carpet and found structurally sound hardwood.

As darius said there are some small holes from carpet tack strips. Excessive moisture being trapped in the carpet is the cause of it s growth. If the source is not identified and eliminated the mould will be a reoccurring issue even after the removal and clean up. So now i want to rip out all of the carpet and do a good once over the interior of the car.

There are places where the old stain is still there.