Wet Carpet Extraction & Drying

Emergency wet carpet drying services

Wet carpets from your flooding and leak events need to be acted upon quickly. The longer the carpet is wet the more likely it is to become serious health hazard due to dangerous levels mould and bacteria. Emergency Building Group has the specialist equipment, experience, cleaning products and training designed specifically for reaching the water deep in your carpets, underlay, contents and structure which is a necessary for the rapid drying of your property.

Call us in case of a flood or water leak event for rapid drying, we are available for 24/7 all hours service or use our contact form.

A carpet cleaners wand can only extract standing water and water trapped the carpet, this leaving huge amounts of water trapped in your carpet underlay. In order to extract water from the underlay as well as the carpet a water-claw must be used to suck all the water affecting your carpets.

Water requires large sums of energy to go from a liquid to vapour, this makes mechanical water extraction by far the most cost, time and energy efficient method of extracting water from wet carpet leading to much faster dry times.

The water claw was created specifically for the water restoration industry to not only extract water from your carpet but also your underlay as well. With the weight of the technician standing on the waterclaw physically squeezing the water out of the underla, the strong suction of a commercial vacuums and vacuum boosters we can effectively extract 60% more more water from your carpet than what would otherwise be possible by conventional means.

2. Microbial & Stain Treatment

Some species of bacteria are able to double in population every 15 minutes. Fungal and bacterial populations explodes in numbers from the moment the water has found its way into your carpet, underlay, sub-floor and building structure. We combat this through the use of an environmentally friendly and non-toxic anti-microbial sanitation agents as required. This buys precious time in the drying process to assure that mould, fungi and bacteria do not have the chance to take hold in the carpet and underlay in dangerous numbers.

While your carpet is still wet it is also a great time to tackle any staining that might have been caused by the water damage before the stain has had time to dry into your carpet. We take the time to remove and help prevent any staining that might take place caused by water damage. the use of specialty spot cleaners tailored to the type of stain. The carpet can even stain itself, the cellulose in the backing of the carpet can rise to the top of the carpet pile as it dries leaving an ugly brown stain, this is know as cellulosic browning. To prevent this, we also use an anti-browning preventative treatment.

3. Rapid Drying

Wet carpets are a race against time, getting the carpet dry as quickly as possible assures that we beat the race against fungal and bacterial growth. Getting the carpets dry as rapidly as possible is the most the most important step in the process.

Our Water Restoration Technicians have a number of techniques to rapidly dry wet carpet available to them.

Carpets can be top dried with targeted heat drying or other in place drying techniques that place warm flow of air directing air down into the carpet. These have the advantage of the carpet need not be re stretched upon completion of the drying process unlike when the carpet if lifted which carries with it a great chance that the carpet carpet will be damage and need to be replaced anyway.

Once the water has been evaporated from the carpet and is now in the air we can remove the water through the use of dehumidifiers. Alternatively the water vapor can be removed from the building with our Drymatic II environmental control system. This also has the advantage of warming the structure which drives additional evaporation from carpet.

4. Deep Cleaning

Once the carpet is dry the last step in the process is to give the carpets a good deep clean. We strive ourselves on bringing the carpet to better than its pre loss condition by making sure the carpet gets the proper attention it deserves.

First the carpet is given a good vacuum, about 80% of the dirt in a carpet is dry particulate matter and a high quality vacuum with a powered brush head is the best tool for the job at getting this out. The next step is pre-spray of premium carpet cleaning agent followed by a good thorough agitation with a carpet scrubber, this serves to help agitate the remaining dirt held deep within the carpet pile so that it becomes easily water soluble and ready for hot water extraction. Finally the carpet is thoroughly gone over with a hot water extraction steam cleaning wand which lifts any of the remaining dirt from the carpet, making the carpet look like new again.

The only thing left to do now is dry the carpet for the final time, this anywhere near as an intensive process as getting the carpet dry as after a flooding event and is normally dry within a matter of just few hours and the your contents items are ready to be put back in place

If your wet carpets are in need of extraction and drying