If left untreated this odor will continue to permeate your indoor air and can really stink up your home.
Wet spot on carpet second floor.
One of the first ways to spot carpet moisture problems is by the foul odor emanating from the affected area.
It is on the lower level of a split level house built in 1976.
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.
If the water is seeping up through the floor it could be a result of insufficiently sealed foundations or there could be cracks in the foundation floor.
If you notice a musty odor that just won t go away with vacuuming and regular cleaning you may be dealing with a wet carpet.
There is a bathroom next to it but there is two feet of dry space in.
It needs to come up to be dried anyway as your underpad will be toast.
Dry out your home the first step in drying out your home is to make sure the humidity in the room is not too high the temperature is low and the air is circulating.
As long as it is not glue down carpet it is very easy to pull up especially if there is an outside corner nearby.
Right at the entrance to a room the carpet has a wet spot.
Depending on how your carpet was laid and what type of under padding was used you may have moisture coming from almost anywhere and seeping under the underpad to this spot where there may be a.
We tried to dry it up but it has stayed wet for a couple weeks.
There are no squishy noises or wetness anywhere else.
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.
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.
Pull up the carpet in the area and check it out.
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.
This room is on a concrete slab.
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.