So it's STILL raining, but I think I'm finally comfortable calling the den 'dry'. Getting it to this point was quite a bit of work, but here's what we did:
1. Get fan and dehumidifyer and towels in the room, wait till daytime when we can do something about it.
2. Buy shop vac, realize there is not actually enough water for shop vac to do anything.
3. Rent carpet shampooer.
4. Spend 2 days sucking water out of the floor, while dehumidifyer and fan are still going.
5. Return rug shampooer, and pull up carpet. Discover carpet pad is still a sponge.
6. Leave carpet up for 3 days while airing out and drying pad.
7. Replace carpet. Still smells like damp feet.
8. Keep airing out, feet smell mostly gone, but buy glade plugins anyway and hope we don't have to replace the pad soon.
This is what the den looked like for several days last week:
So that was fun.
Also, I'm totally nosy but one of my neighbors had critter control at their house last night... I wonder what they had!
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