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| Thread ID: 59729 | 2005-07-11 06:24:00 | dry wet carpet | heni72847 (1166) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 371201 | 2005-07-14 12:29:00 | so if the smell slowly goes away then does that mean that whatever is going on..either chemical change or biological factors have stopped affecting the carpet? today i aired the whole place for nearly the whole day.. windows and doors wide open and let sun in etc.. and tonight the smell is noticebly less strong this is a good sign right? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 371202 | 2005-07-14 12:38:00 | Don't use a portable un-flued gas heater to "dry it out" For every kg of gas you burn, it produces ~ 1 litre of water into the air in the combustion process. It can be somewhat counter productive, raising the humidity level in the house when you want to do the reverse. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 371203 | 2005-07-14 12:47:00 | Interesting point godfather. But I would have thought that providing some warmth with ventilatiion would have done the job.,,,,,,,m | mark c (247) | ||
| 371204 | 2005-07-14 12:58:00 | But the amount of ventilation needed to prevent humidity build up could negate most of the warmth ..... money wasted. As there is little difference per kWh between gas and electricity, use an electric fan heater. But a dehumidifier is still the only really effective option. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 371205 | 2005-07-14 13:24:00 | Dehumidfiers are a capitalist ploy to suck more money from the unsuspecting just like the marketing of OS's from M$. Until this sort of perfidy ceases Londoners will continue to be bombed. .......................///////////////////m | mark c (247) | ||
| 371206 | 2005-07-14 22:29:00 | Goddie is absolutley correct in what he says. I've seen people convinced the have a serious moisture ingress problem, which they do, but they bring it indoors in the form of a gas bottle. Un-flued heaters are decidedly unhealthy. Forced drying is not affective without plenty of ventilation, and not good for most materials anyway. A hot space, with a reservoir of moisture, including cavities with little ventilation, will only increase in humidity as the temperature rises and decrease, as the reservoir is refilled, without a means to change the air (blowers, open windows, dehumidifier). Warmish, not hot is better, plenty of air flow is best. Strangely enough (well not really), one of the places where moisture will migrate to from a warm, humid room (for eg) is to the roof cavity. You can find it dripping from the underside of the roof/underlay or stored in insulation, thus lessening it's effectiveness. Check the roof space Heni, people have mistaken sub-floor moisture for a leaky roof. BTW, downlights, sans cannister, are very effective pasageways for moisture movement. How did the the water get there in the first place, flood, plumbing, sink/bath/shower overflow? and, how deep did it get. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 371207 | 2005-07-15 03:30:00 | water flooded when the dishwasher mulfunctioned while i wasn't at home so water flooded around the ground floor don't see any other water condensing anywhere so i think only carpet is wet right now the open window seem to help the most it's pretty dry now i'm just airing the place out today again let the last few places become compleltely dry smell less werid now..so that's good |
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