Best way to dry out a flooded room?

**headbandrocker** · 03-16-2009, 11:44 PM

I flooded,again{i know-float valve}
I have my intake and exaust on blast and was thinking about bumpin my heater in the room ,you think this would help it dry out faster? Good amount in the room...
Any adivise from flood vicctims?! Cheers

**fdd2blk** · 03-16-2009, 11:46 PM

how about a mop?

**regal8r** · 03-17-2009, 12:10 AM

in all serious, idk lol..dont have a whole lot of flood problems where i live lol

**headbandrocker** · 03-17-2009, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by regal8r

in all serious, idk lol..dont have a whole lot of flood problems where i live lol

Thats awsome!Vince sold me on that shit,we need a big shamgrow shammi! like a 1o ftr
Fdd-lol scarry part is the use of my mop never entered my mind

Off to mop!

**The Scooby Master** · 03-17-2009, 01:49 AM

How flooded are you? I bought a used carpet cleaner that has come in handy a few times. It can suck up about a gallon in 5 minutes on my basement carpeting. You can rent them for like $20 bucks. A large oscillating fan, space heater, and dehumidifier also help to speed things up, but be careful with the space heater. Youll be tempted to keep it close to the floor to dry quickly, and they can heat up shit really quick if your not paying attention.

**TeaTreeOil** · 03-17-2009, 02:03 AM

A dehumidifier. Also, if you have a high quality vacuum cleaner or shop vac, you can suck up most of the water pretty decently.

**Brick Top** · 03-17-2009, 02:28 AM

Is any of the flooded area carpeted? The bottom broke out of a water heater once and not only did the water in the tank flow everywhere additional water then added to it because the tank was attempting to refill itself. By the time I found out what happened most of a room that is carpeted and is 30 ft. X 30 ft. was flooded.

I called a local carpet company and they came in and used their high powered suction clearer to dray out as much water as possible and then they pulled up one edge of the carpet and folded it back and then raised the carpet some and put a series of high powered fans that then blew air under the carpet and over the padding.

The two problems, if there is carpet involved, is the padding can break down if it remains wet long enough and the other problem is mold. So the thing to do if at all possible would of course be to dry the carpet as fast as you can and that means getting moving air between the carpet and the carpet pad.

A, or several, dehumidifiers would be very good to use if you have access to one or more. If you have ceiling fans in the room leaving them on will also help slightly. Any increased amount of air movement will help to some degree even if it is only above the carpet instead of between the carpet and the carpet padding.

Depending on what sort of heat system you have it may or may not help. If you have natural gas or oil that produces a dry heat and by turning up the temperature it will dry out the air more and that will help to speed things up. If you have a heat pump, or like me more than one heat pump, don’t bother to turn it or them up because they do not produce a dry heat and when heating they do not dehumidify like heat pumps do when in A/C mode.

If carpet is not involved the mop suggestion should handle things.

**tyke1973** · 03-17-2009, 06:12 AM

Towels and fans has many fans has possible.

**headbandrocker** · 03-17-2009, 06:27 PM

Thanks for the help guys!
I moped about 8 gallons up,but that took an hour so i blasted in/out fans and the rest {which was a ton} dried up by morning.No worries,but yes carpet did get wet,so i used a carpet cleaner to pull water up,and there was a bunch.Im going to clean up a bit more and change things around a bit so this wont happen again!Cheers