They re relatively inexpensive and you can easily rent one if you think you may need a wet vac just once.
Ways to soak up water from carpet.
If the area is smaller you can use large towels to soak up water from carpet as well.
Keep at this until the areas is completely dry.
Thankfully it didn t get out too far on the carpet except in front of the bathroom door.
Open the towels completely and lay them around the wet sections of the carpeting.
The easiest way to get the moisture or water out of your carpet is by removing it with a wet vacuum.
Remove as much water manually as you possibly can.
Replace with fresh dry towels as they get wet.
I wasn t able to turn off the water until it already flooded the bathroom with a few inches of water.
After the area is mostly dry empty the soapy mix from your spray bottle fill it with regular tap water and lightly spray the carpet once more.
Use your body weight and soak up the water by walking over the carpets until the towels are fully saturated.
Best way to soak up water from a carpet.
Press the towels into the carpet letting them saturate with water.
Keep doing this until they are completely dry.
Use a hairdryer and position it over the wet towels.
Early this morning our toilet pipe burst and started spraying water all over the bathroom.
Soak up excess water with towels.
Place towels over the carpeting and walk over them to get the water to soak up into the towels.
Continue to run the wet dry vacuum over damp carpet slowly and carefully until no more water can be extracted.
Again press the cloth towels into the carpet.
The easiest way to dry an area of wet carpet is to lay down the appropriate amount of towels to cover the water stained area.