My roommate and I were cleaning carpets in our 1st floor apartment yesterday with a carpet spray called RESOLVE. We bought it at Target and tied it on the carpets but it didn't work well. Then my roommate tried to clean the carpet by water. He dumped the bucket of water and tried to dry it with a sponge. Obviously, it didn't work and the carpet is still wet. We were going to call a cleaning company but we are still trying to figure out how to dry them by ourselves. How bad is that if we just leave it and wait until the carpets dry? It's not flooded but it feels wet. I appreciate it if someone could help me.
Open the windows and run fans on the carpet so it will dry and not have a moldy smell. If you want to clean the carpet rent a steam cleaner.
Use a wet/dry vac to suck the water out of the carpet. You can buy a small one for around $20-30 if you don't have one. Then point a fan on the carpet to speed up the drying. I would buy a couple of cheap fan (like at Walmart) to use to dry the carpet. If the air outside is dry, open the windows when doing this. If it is humid out, crank the AC (if you have one).
