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buffalobill

http://www.cdc.gov/health/mold.html

wrote:
Hi there,

I had an sal****er aquarium (sold it last night because of this) and I
had a leak onto the carpets, not a major leak (about 3 foot by 6 foot
section) but the carpets were water wet to touch and I can kinda tell
the underlay is wet as well.

This happened sat night and so on Sunday afternoon after the fishtank
was gone I used a shop vac to suck up as much as I can. I was just
wondering what I should do now, it still seems wet. I did some
searching and I found two pieces of advice, pull out the carpet and
replace it because you will have tons of mold issues or pull up the
carpet and replace the underlay and retack it down when the carpet is
complete dry.

Advice? The whole room size is about 35 feet by 15 feet so this
affected a small part of it.

Thank you very much.