Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Stinky!!!

We finished sucking up the water with the shop vac yesterday around 2 pm; it just wouldn't suck up any more. I sopped up some more out of the carpet with 8 bath towels, then washed & dried 'em. And I put out 2 containers of Damp Rid, which have yet to do anything. And now it's starting to stink downstairs. Our friends next door are going to loan us their dehumidifier for a day to see if that helps ... but aside from that, I'm kind of at a loss as to what else to do, other than call a carpet cleaning service & have them come clean right away, and suck up our nasty-damp smell along with cleaning the rest of the carpet! I'll see how well the humidifier does overnight ... and then decide tomorrow what the next step is!

3 comments:

kimz said...

Want me to throw the steam cleaner in the car?

kaj said...

Do you have any fans that you can turn on and blast into that area?

Mel said...

Ack.

Anything to move the air around--fans, dehumidifiers...a wind tunnel would work......

Ack!