How to Dry Wet Carpet (Water Damage Brisbane)

You may have had traumatic experience with water, flood or sewage damage entering your home of business. Here is a video showing exactly how we dry water damage from carpets and walls. The steps of drying wet carpet are listed below the video.

• Extraction of water with a commercial extractor. This will take around 85% of the water out
• Use of water claw to help remove extract more water
• Movement of furniture
• Careful placement of air movers, dehumidifiers and hepa filters to dry down final 15%.
• Plug all electrical equipment into an RCD (pictured right) so it is electrically safe
• Dry down takes about 48 hours on average but varies from job to job
• Moisture tests such as dew point, humidity and WME should be taken to see if carpet, subfloor and walls are dry
• If there is an odour in the environment (e.g. sewage spill). We run a Odorox Hydroxyl machine to deodorise and purify the air.

The most important step to call a water damage clean trust certified professional such as New Life Restorations to dry down your property. If the dry down is managed incorrectly, you may risk having mould growth to your property.