Franx

I got up this morning, and the gutter's been overflowing, which for some reason causes water to flow down right through the house - between the boards and the carpets etc.
Hence, everything's soaking.
It's an oldish house (1840 ish), and it's happened before, but because it was night time, and the rains came around 11-12 o clock (Liverpool), we didn't notice until this morning.

Anyway, what's the best way to dry out carpet?
Should I put the heating on? Try and mop it up?
I'll take ages if I just leave it as it is, but then the room's full of furnature, that I can't move until someone else comes home.


Quite a lot of water there by the way. You can see it underfoot, when you walk there. It's only in two rooms, one above the other.

Any ideas?

ProperCharlie

i've had a couple of fairly bad leaks recently - (one self inflicted ) caused the sockets to trip out. had to isolate the ring main and leave the heating on - after 24 hrs everything was pretty much back to normal.

Brendan Hughes

Pardon me, but why all the happy smileys? Looking forward to screwing the insurance co?

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Heating on high and open the windows slightly to allow ventilation.

Or windows shut and hire/borrow a big de-humidifier

Franx

I'm not quite sure tbh. It's not that seroious anyway, it's just that the carpet's all wet.... For Bh's benefit then
......
I do need to sort it out though.

micared

When our houseboat almost sank ( water came in above floor level ) we hired a wetvac to clean/dry the carpets, which hadn't just been wet, they were floating! Worked wonders, 24 hours later, they were bone dry.

Nick

Bad luck about the leak

The only way to properly dry the carpets yourself is to take them up & air them outside. Or do as the previous poster & call in the pros!

Franx

It's not really a leak in the roof, tbh. It's just that we have a parapet around the outside of the roof, and a gutter on the inside, so when the gutter overflows, the water goes underneath the slates, and into the house. It doesn't normally happen, except in autumn, when the leaves tend to block it.

I'd take them outside to dry, but it's still raining....