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    Posted: 03/May/2005 at 6:15pm
WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET RID OF MOLD, ON A FLOOD RES..???
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Mike better give more information to the flood situation........that's to vague to get the right help.
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WELL, its in a basement of a house, and a little mold is starting to form on the coners of the carpet, just wondering whats the best way to go to get rid of it for good.

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I don't work out in the field and I am sure the boys will correct me if I am wrong.......first you better pull up the corners of the carpet to be sure that it is dry underneath.  If it is I would spray down a disinfectant like Benefit to kill the mold before it starts to grow and rapidly it will.

That's the best advise I have to say and hopefully more will follow.

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Originally posted by cmss cmss wrote:

WELL, its in a basement of a house, and a little mold is starting to form on the coners of the carpet, just wondering whats the best way to go to get rid of it for good.

I'll give you the short version. If there's mold growing on the carpet, it took way too long to dry. Get rid of the carpet.

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this has been leaking for a week, at the cust. site thats why it has mold, but i guess i can spray it with disinfectant. I was just wondering if there were any  tricks you guys use.
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Originally posted by cmss cmss wrote:

this has been leaking for a week, at the cust. site thats why it has mold, but i guess i can spray it with disinfectant. I was just wondering if there were any  tricks you guys use.

Don't try to save a moldy carpet. There is only one trick:

Throw it out

 

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Cmaster it can be saved especially when the mold is just starting in the corners. What do you do throw everything out when you see mold.
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No, just carpet. It's not worth saving when it's been wet for a week. Probably doesn't smell too pretty right now.There are liabilities here.
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Ok.........I give up..........you know better then me.
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In all my experiences it takes 5 or more days of seriously wet carpet, before you have visible mold growth. The odour is usually pretty unpleasant by then. Pretty hard to eliminate the odour even if you completely saturate the carpet with biocide.
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Looking for some Numbers regarding the Restoration Busniess. Currently own carpet cleaning busniess. We do Resedential and Comercial. How does restoration help my over all busniess? Is there a lot of STaffing?
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