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FLOOD RES. WHATS THE BEST WAY?

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Topic: FLOOD RES. WHATS THE BEST WAY?

Posted By: cmss
Subject: FLOOD RES. WHATS THE BEST WAY?
Date Posted: 03/May/2005 at 6:15pm

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET RID OF MOLD, ON A FLOOD RES..???

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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 03/May/2005 at 6:31pm

Mike better give more information to the flood situation........that's to vague to get the right help.

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Posted By: cmss
Date Posted: 03/May/2005 at 6:39pm

WELL, its in a basement of a house, and a little mold is starting to form on the coners of the carpet, just wondering whats the best way to go to get rid of it for good.

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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 03/May/2005 at 6:53pm

I don't work out in the field and I am sure the boys will correct me if I am wrong.......first you better pull up the corners of the carpet to be sure that it is dry underneath. If it is I would spray down a disinfectant like Benefit to kill the mold before it starts to grow and rapidly it will.

That's the best advise I have to say and hopefully more will follow.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 03/May/2005 at 7:15pm

cmss wrote:

WELL, its in a basement of a house, and a little mold is starting to form on the coners of the carpet, just wondering whats the best way to go to get rid of it for good.

I'll give you the short version. If there's mold growing on the carpet, it took way too long to dry. Get rid of the carpet.

Posted By: cmss
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 12:19am

this has been leaking for a week, at the cust. site thats why it has mold, but i guess i can spray it with disinfectant. I was just wondering if there were any tricks you guys use.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 12:22am

cmss wrote:

this has been leaking for a week, at the cust. site thats why it has mold, but i guess i can spray it with disinfectant. I was just wondering if there were any tricks you guys use.

Don't try to save a moldy carpet. There is only one trick:

Throw it out

Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 12:56am

Cmaster it can be saved especially when the mold is just starting in the corners. What do you do throw everything out when you see mold.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 12:58am

No, just carpet. It's not worth saving when it's been wet for a week. Probably doesn't smell too pretty right now.There are liabilities here.

Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 1:01am

Ok.........I give up..........you know better then me.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 04/May/2005 at 1:08am

In all my experiences it takes 5 or more days of seriously wet carpet, before you have visible mold growth. The odour is usually pretty unpleasant by then. Pretty hard to eliminate the odour even if you completely saturate the carpet with biocide.

Posted By: Erik06Erik
Date Posted: 06/June/2005 at 2:45pm

Looking for some Numbers regarding the Restoration Busniess. Currently own carpet cleaning busniess. We do Resedential and Comercial. How does restoration help my over all busniess? Is there a lot of STaffing?