Carpet stinks after cleaning

    I may be wrong but I do not believe that any smell would be caused from overwetting if the carpet dried in one day or less. The first thing that comes to mind for me is they may have had a water damage or overwet carpet before. When it completly dried the smell went away. When you re-wet the carpet you re-activated the smell.

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Hey Raf, I cleaned some bars for a few years (thank god it's over) and I might add a few clues.  Number one is the fact that there is so much crap in the carpet that bacteria growth is instintaneous with the addition of moisture.  No way to really fix this problem, especially with pad.  Second is check for other problems, or sources of water.  The house keepers who mopped the kitchen and bathrooms every night at the places I cleaned used to leave a massive amount of water on the floor.  The water would migrate to the carpeted areas just on the other side of the wall.  Needless to say I got blamed for the smell.  When the manager called to tell me she was thinking of using another carpet cleaner I wished her luck and thanked God.  After "loosing" that account, I began dropping all of the others.    No more night work, smelly waiste tank or moving tables!

Doug reminds me of Barney Rubble...............

The carpet will not support and cause your mold problem but what is spilled on it will. The carpet will be a 100% synthetic. If it is a bar there should not be pad under it............... what is ths guy thinking?? You should sit him down and explain just what he needs for carpet. Buy a heavier commerical carpet and forget the pad. find if it is being installed over old wood or concrete. I have said enough. People don't like reading my BS?

This guy is cheap  he told me that he bought the cheapest carpet he could find. I do not know what the smell is like as I never had that problem before. He told me about it only after he replaced the carpet with new one. He wants me to clean his new carpet but he wants to avoid the “rotting” smell after cleaning.

 

The place I’m talking about is a night club, lot’s of people, drinks being spilled on the floor, people throwing up, and God only knows what else. Could such condition also contribute to the “stink” problem? I do not have degree in biology, but I would imagine that such carpet is an ideal please for bacterias to grow. Once I use water on the carpet bacterias sitting in the carpet are getting a “bust” from the water and they start to grow and cause the problem?

 

Edited by RAF303 - 04/March/2007 at 5:04pm