Advice on Water/Carpet Damage

[guymartin]

Any guys experienced a similar problem and how best to treat? Water leakage through roof/door during winter months into passenger side under/behind passenger seat. Carpet now a little perished and has been a little mouldy. Car now absolutely honking! Clothes are humming for days afterwards. Any great ideas for freshening up or is it a carpet replacement job? Help much appreciated.

Guy

[petclub]

One of mine has let the water in a bit, the carpets are out, car in garage and dehumidifier turned on. I guess it depends how bad the carpets are as whether to replace. Autostyle do some nice mates if that might solve your problem.

[GJR]

guymartin said:

Any guys experienced a similar problem and how best to treat? Water leakage through roof/door during winter months into passenger side under/behind passenger seat. Carpet now a little perished and has been a little mouldy. Car now absolutely honking! Clothes are humming for days afterwards. Any great ideas for freshening up or is it a carpet replacement job? Help much appreciated.

Guy

Guy,

I guess whether or not the carpet needs replacing depends really on how bad the condition of the carpet is. If it's just wet, mouldy and smelly it'll probably be ok. If the carpet has started to disintegrate then it may need replacing.

If you still have water behind the seat you need to get rid of it. One thing I've done in the past is to park the car up hill. This way all the remaining water will collect in the area just behind the seat over a day or two. If you don't have a sloped driveway you could improvise by jacking up the front of the car and supporting it on stands or simply park the car facing up a hill, put an old towel on the floor behind the seat and the water will soak into that.

Once you have removed the majority of the water you need to clean it... there are carpet cleaning product that will freshen, clean and remove the mould. I had access to a VAX vacuum cleaner which both cleaned the carpet and also sucked up any remaining water. Once the water is gone and the carpet is clean let it dry out completely it should be fine.

Then try and sort out the area responsible for the leak in the first place.

If, even after drying out, the carpet is a bit wiffy there are carpet freshner/nice smelling air fresheners etc that you can put under the seat to help.

G

[guymartin]

G

Appreciate the advice; going shopping for items tomorrow. Cheers, Guy