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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: scott. on June 15, 2005, 04:06:54 pm

Title: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: scott. on June 15, 2005, 04:06:54 pm

Had a call to a hotel last week, to extract water from one of the rooms, which had leaked from the bathroom, and took them a week to call someone out! . 20 litres later and 5 hours of turbo drying, it appeared to be drying out, however it stank like a bag of dead rats. Upon completion, I notice the water pouring out of the bathroom again, and back into the carpet, as the plumber was obviously hopeless. I anticipate another call-out again, and was wondering if the water being in there for that length of time, would make it stink permanently, or what course of action would one recommend? I used odour fresh, but the rat smell over-powered it.

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: jcbdfa on June 15, 2005, 09:24:48 pm

i would think this carpet is ber at this stage odourfresh is not really powerful enough. the only way this could be restored is to up the carpet and treat it with a powerful sanitiser including and especially the back. a product such as ballista sprayed on or prochem micro san sprayed with a wet fogger may work. but the carpet may already be discoloured due to mould.

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: John_Flynn on June 18, 2005, 07:11:46 pm

Scott

There is more to Flood Restoration than sucking water out, tha should get thisen on a course.

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: Gavin Reardon on June 19, 2005, 10:12:50 am

Hi Scott

I would use a Ozone Generator great bit of kit  8)

Regards Gavin

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: Karl Wildey on June 19, 2005, 10:41:07 am

No mention of unerlay?
Is the carpet a foambacked/felt? Is it on u/lay?

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: John_Flynn on June 19, 2005, 10:54:24 am

Also no mention of floor ie, wood, chipboard, concrete, all different solutions, skirting board, migration of water upt walls!!

As said before more to it than getting shut o water.

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: Len Gribble on June 19, 2005, 06:26:36 pm

Scott

I can recommend one course that is!

Len

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: eco freindly. peoples champion ron .sherlock on June 21, 2005, 09:20:03 pm

strange a hotel should rip up and start afresh beware

Title: Re: flooded Hotel carpet
Post by: scott. on June 27, 2005, 08:23:28 pm

Hi guys...I think they did rip up and start again..The water was there for so long in the end...saved me agro..thanks for the advice..I did suggest that to them in the end.