Floor Wet Under Carpet

Yesterday we decided to lift the carpet underlay in our front room ground floor to expose the lovely parquet underneath only to find that the whole thing was saturated with water.

Floor wet under carpet.

Cutting into the subfloor around the moisture will give you access to any plumbing underneath. If you can feel a soft spot in the floor under the carpet the subfloor has likely been weakened or damaged. The water can even cause the glue on the tiles to be destroyed. Instead a dip in the carpet could mean that a floor joist has sustained.

We don t have puddles but it feels damp to the touch and if you sit on it you stand up with a wet patch on your clothes. If the spot is isolated away from any walls or doors you will need to pull up the carpet. Unfortunately there is no way around it. Within a week or so the damp spot progressed to a puddle 4 by 6 feet that a wet vac couldn t really keep up with.

The temporary fix was to rip up the carpet knock a hole in the concrete slab repair the leaking pipe fill in the hole with quickcrete cement and restretch the carpet once it and the pad had dried. David auten owner of piper auten floor sanding in centerville ohio said it s possible that the wood floor under an old carpet is in good shape but in some cases the floor is damaged and in. Water leaks can happen under various types of flooring. If your wood flooring is covered by wet rugs mats or carpeting you ll need to remove them immediately.

Regardless of the type of wood flooring if water or moisture has been sighted the method above can be used to remove the moisture and return the floor to a dry state. If your carpets and rugs have been soaked and they are not immediately cleaned they will usually need to be discarded due to mildew concerns. This isn t the same as having a floor squeak when you step on it which simply indicates that the subfloor isn t tightly fastened to the floor joist in one area. At that point you can get a look under the padding and into the sub floor.

Today we find and fix the water leaking inside my car. Why floor is wet on passenger side floor mat carpet wet car smells wet in this video we will explain why your car carpet on the passenger side may be wet. Additionally depending on how long the water has been on the floor it can cause severe water damage mold and mildew growth destroy your drywall and cause wood to warp. The area underneath your wood floor won t dry while the wood is still wet.

The carpet was soaked due to water leaking on the floor.