How to get 'wet carpet' smell out of house?

[Madissun]

On Saturday morning, i discovered that my DS bedroom floor was flooded

To cut a long story short, there was a broken bathroom pipe which is next door to DS room. There are now 4 holes in his bedroom wall and one in the bathroom wall which should be plastered over today. The carpet was ripped up and had dryers placed underneath. The dryers gone now but the humidifier is still there until this afternoon.

There is an awful smell throughout the whole house, but funnily enough, not in DS room. Im assuming it's from wet, damp carpet.

We've been staying at my mums but every time i walk in, the smell just hits you!

Does anyone have any idea how i can get the smell out?? It's awful and even going through our clothes in the wardrobes!

[Tinks]

I'd probably be inclined to get new carpet.

Did the insurance company dry it? If so get back on to them and tell them how much it still stinks and request new carpet. Fight them until you get what you want.

[S'rose]

I'd sprinkle the whole house with bicarb soda... it vaccuums out of carpet easily and the smell gets absorbed by it. I have used it to get the vomit smell out of my carpet and it was the only thing that got rid of the smell permanently. Depending on the strength of the smell, you may have to leave the bicarb for a while or repeat.

Good luck, its such a horrid smell.

[Visitor7]

I would try bi-carb. Works a treat for everything else. What kind of floor covering do you have throughout the rest of the house, tiles or carpet? If it's carpet, maybe get it all professionally cleaned. You might need to go through every room and clean it, just to get the smell out.

[Madissun]

Tinks- It's a rental property.

The wet area was only a metre by a metre square. The carpets been dried and the humidifier has gotten the smell out DS room. But it's the rest of the house that it's wafted through.

Theres carpet in the other bedroom, lounge and dining and the rest is tiled.