No one wants to come home to find that it has been damaged. Your house is a place that you want to come home and be able to enjoy and relax in. When there is damage from unforeseen force you are stuck coming home to a mess. You also might be dealing with uninhabitable circumstances that require you to stay out of the home until the mess has been cleaned up. One of the types of messes that you might come home to is water damage. There are several things that can cause your home to be damaged from water. The areas that are commonly damaged when there is water are the floors. If your carpets are water damaged you want to make sure you know what to do to remediate it and to save your carpets. Steam Magic Carpet Cleaning outlines what you can do to save your carpets after water damage.

What Caused The Water Damage?

There are lots of things that can cause your carpets to be soaked from water. One of the most common ways is when your water heater is damaged and the water from the tank leaks. There is so much water that it often will get in the house and on the carpet creating soaking wet carpets. The other reason that your carpets can be soaked is from a leaking pipe in your walls that have burst. You also could have water damage if there is a storm that brings in rain in abundance. The rain can end up flooding the house and that will cause damage to your carpet and other areas of the house. No matter where the water came from you want to make sure that you start to care for your carpets right away.

Stop the Water Source

The first and most important part of saving your carpets from water damage is to stop the leak or the source of the water. This might mean that you need to turn the water off to the house or call out a plumber to repair the damaged pipes. If you are not sure that the water leak has been repaired you don’t want to start cleaning the carpets.

Dry Carpets After a Leak

When you know that there is no more risk of water getting in the house and on your carpets you want to get going on drying out the carpets. The carpets are likely soaked all the way to the sub floors and that is why you need to get them dry. The best way to do that is to allow air to flow through the house. You also want to set up large fans around the house to help to aid the drying of the carpet.

Clean, Sanitize & Deodorize Carpets

Now that you have dried the carpet you want to make sure that you treat the odor that is likely going to occur. There are deodorizers that you can use to treat the odor as well as the rest of the moisture that might be hiding in the carpet. A professional carpet cleaning company has the ability to treat the odor as well as do a finish clean for your carpets. This will ensure that you can save your carpets rather than having to have them replaced.

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Steam Magic Carpet Cleaning can come to your house to treat your carpets after water damage. Call us today!