Carpet Feels Damp After Rain

And eventually that water will reach your flooring and cause visible damage.

Carpet feels damp after rain.

Work in small sections at a time. The rooms upstairs are fine. If you don t have a wet vacuum dab the damp area with towels until it s feeling a little drier. If you have carpet throughout your home keep an eye out for damp areas or spots that suddenly appear.

Odor mold and mildew. We have a crawl space under the entire house that is only accessed from the outside. 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. Efflorescence spalling of concrete or masonry.

It smells slightly mildewy and feels cold like there might be moisture. 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. Damp carpet or warped hard flooring. I did go outside and look along the wall that is damp and it appears the soil in the garden there is high above the foundation level and even with the weeping holes.

Condensation on cold walls and floor in summer. Staining and blistering of wall covering. If you have a wet vacuum go over the damp spot to take out as much of the moisture as possible. Remove as much water from the damp carpet as possible using a wet vacuum.

Rot and decay of wood headers joists sill plates and columns. We have a 2 story home and the ground level is the one that is wet. Maybe i m going crazy but after a big rain my living room just feels damp. Deterioration of carpet or wood.