Carpet Feels Damp After Rain

Deterioration of carpet or wood.

Carpet feels damp after rain.

Maybe i m going crazy but after a big rain my living room just feels damp. Damp carpet or warped hard flooring. And eventually that water will reach your flooring and cause visible damage. If you don t have a wet vacuum dab the damp area with towels until it s feeling a little drier.

I did go outside and look along the wall that is damp and it appears the soil in the garden there is high above the foundation level and even with the weeping holes. I checked the attic and there are no signs of leaks or dampness. Remove as much water from the damp carpet as possible using a wet vacuum. If you have a wet vacuum go over the damp spot to take out as much of the moisture as possible.

Efflorescence spalling of concrete or masonry. Odor mold and mildew. When you have a leak in the slab foundation of your home that water accumulates and sometimes has nowhere to go but up. Condensation on cold walls and floor in summer.

The rooms upstairs are fine. Within a week or so the damp spot progressed to a puddle 4 by 6 feet that a wet vac couldn t really keep up with. Rot and decay of wood headers joists sill plates and columns. Staining and blistering of wall covering.

We have a crawl space under the entire house that is only accessed from the outside. We have a 2 story home and the ground level is the one that is wet. It smells slightly mildewy and feels cold like there might be moisture. The temporary fix was to rip up the carpet knock a hole in the concrete slab repair the leaking pipe fill in the hole with quickcrete cement and restretch the carpet once it and the pad had dried.