Faster drying carpet with dryers

Fastest carpet drying and airmover placement.
Posted By Ken Harris on 5/20/2002 at 1:49 PM
Many people have the idea that to dry the carpets in a room the fastest, the dryer should be directed to the center of the room blowing on the carpets surface, but is that best way to get the job done? No, because the best reason to use the dryer in the first place is to keep the air moving in the room so that the boundry layer of very humid air does not get a chance to form in that first 6" layer above the surface of the carpet. Once it does the carpet in that room can take up to 4X longer to dry than if that does not happen.

The most critical time to stop this from happening is the first 20 to 30 minites after the room is cleaned. If your air movement in that room is optimum during that time,about half the water in the carpet will be evaporated and the remaining moisture will not be enough to form a very effective barrier to rapid drying of the carpet.

How to you set-up the most effective drying system with your air mover? It helps to think of air like water to figure this out. The air leaves the snout of the dryer in a straight line lamilar flow and only changes direction when it hits an solid object. After that it disperses in many directions. You want it to equally direct the air all around the floors surface of that room to keep the air moving and provent humid air from forming at the surface and retarding the drying process.Place your dryer as close to the center of the room as possible and place it on its back so that the snout directs the air vertically to the ceiling. This will cause the air to move in a big circular motion around the room.

Now that you have rapid drying happening, and the air in the house is getting humid you must find a way to get it out of the house and let the dryer air in. In other words you need to setup an open drying system. If it is a windy day this can be as simple as opening 2 windows at oposite ends of the house and changing the air that way.If there is no breeze you must create one. You do this by placing another airmover or axial fan with its exhasted air blowing out a window.Use a small collasible table to setup a platform to accomplish this if need be, then open another window at the over side of the house to draw drier air in. Of course if the house has a HVAC system running , you wont need to take this last step.

Use of this system combined with the other techniques mentioned in my earlier post on fast drying will have the carpet feeling dry to the touch in about an hour.

****************************************Coming up in the Next Hour- The modification that you can make to your wand to raise it's operating CFM at the WCI up to 200 cfm from it's current 100 CFM flow and cut your drying times down to as little as 30 minites!

I will have to try that next time I clean my carpets. Although I have always dried them usually within an hour by just moving my dryers around.

And let the windmills dry them!

I JUST TURN THEM OVER........DON'T EVEN BOTHER CLEANING THEM

AROUND DOUGS HOUSE EVERYBODY LIVE IN A TREE HOUSE..............THE CARPET IS ALREADY OUTSIDE.............DOUG JUST WAITS FOR A SUNNY DAY

jtuseo wrote: Rock it dont stop it. Why not throw a Dehumidifier in there!

No point John. Doug's house has NO roof. Next time it rains the humidity will be right back up there as high as it was before.Besides, with no roof, this is an open system, so it wouldn't work,eh? Why no roof? Doug enjoys his birdie freinds to visit him early in the morning. Helps wake him up, eh?















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I thought the picture NR put up was it? Don't see a roof on that one.Or is the bush house an extra room for guests?