my rug is filthy ....we moved in after these people had dogs in my room and it smells like pee when it gets hot so i decided to clean it today and i put Woolite on and scrubbed it then water and soap on it( i didnt care) now its wet and i want to vacuum it up with a regular vacuum .. is this ok and will my carpet stop making my room smell since i scrubbed it twice with Woolite and water and soap
The pee probably got into the padding underneath the carpet. When it gets hot, the pee seeps up through the carpeting and starts to smell. The smell will NOT go away until you get the pee out of the padding. Depending on how wet the carpet was, you probably got some of the pee out, but perhaps not all. I would rent a steam carpet cleaner (available at most larger grocery stores and discount stores like WalMart for about $25 per day) and buy a treatment (carpet cleaning soap) especially made for urine or pet odors. There are lots of them available where ever carpet cleaning supplies are sold. Don't run a regular vacuum over a wet carpet. Put a fan on the carpet until it is pretty dry. Again, if the padding got wet, the carpet will act like a wick, sucking the water up from the padding into the carpet itself, so once the carpet seems dry, it may then suddenly appear wet again.
id wait till it dried if you want to vacuum, you could get electricuted
It is best to wait until the rug is dry as you don't want your vacuum powered by electricity to have contact with anything wet. It could cause an electrical shock and you'd get fried. Also, when vacuuming a damp carpet, the floor debris mixed with the dampness can clog your vacuum. To get rid of the smell of urine, mix a shake of baking soda, one cup of vinegar with a gallon of water and a squirt of dish soap. Blot it over the spot and blot dry. The vinegar concoction will take the odor out. It has worked for me.
