Wet Carpet

[txstateunivreefer]

sooooooo.... i came home today to find that my ATO and skimmer had a party and overflowed the skimate catch.... about 10 gal worth im guessing. so the water flowed off my stand and i belive it is mostly wet under my stand. the stand is the cheap oceanic particle board which soaks up H2O like a sponge. the stand is on carpet too. i live in an apt so any damage caused by leaving it there is mine to pay. so should i move it or just leave it alone?? i have currently resorted to jamming towels into the space between the carpet and the stand and im getting the towels pretty wet so should i keep this up?? or just move it to another part of the apt

[JimD]

Ten gallons is nothing, just keep sopping it up with towels and get some fans on the carpet, no problem.

[erikharrison]

yes keep trying to dry as much water as possible. The stand should be sealed by the veneer, but if it gets breached ny the water, your'e going to have a HUGE problem. Just keep a close eye and watch for the veneer starting to seperate or bubble. If you see this, better start dropping water really quick before the tank falls. My wet/dry is RIGHT next to my tank, and I have had little overflows from sticking my arm in the tank faster than the wet/dry can process it. I do the same thing that you are doing, but I have never had more than a gallon on the floor at any given moment.

[Ram_Puppy]

every apartment i haev ever lived in always replaces the carpets between tennants, i mean, it's kinda gross to live w/ someone elses dander trapped in it ya know? so most likely, if you stay for any period of time (over a year) no matter what condition the carpet is in, it's gonna get replaced.

[LoneStar]

10 gallons may be ok. ;)

I had left my RO line running all night (twice >_< ) and flooded most of my carpet on my bedroom floor. Soaked as much of it up as I could and did the rest with a shop vac and a few fans. Cleaned up ok. But when I disassembled my tank I had some FUNKY carpet under my stand. Some moldy smell and since the 2x4 wasn't treated on the bottom, it left some ink stains on the carpet from the stamps on the wood. But it was a lot more than 10 gallons....then again just a little water can do a lot of damage!

[caferacermike]

Ram Puppy that is not the case. You may have been fortunate but from what I was told by a friend that leases apts and homes, the law says it does not need to be replaced but once every 3 years.

That's an option, just stay there for 3 years and tell them they have to replace it anyways. Is the carpet in the closet the same carpet? If in fact it is ruined you can cheaply get someone to remove the carpet from the closet and patch the nasty spot, then replace the closet carpet with something as similar as possible. That's another trick of the trade.

[apedroza]

Nice Scam Mike wish I would have know that one :skeezy . Did you also know that you are not required to pay for the cleaning after you move out??? Unless you leave the apt in shambles, they cannot take out cleaning fees from your deposit, because they are required by law to cleanit anyways. 7 on your side rocks!!!!

[txstateunivreefer]

well if i can decide on where in the apt i would move it to then i might becuase after all of the frags i got at the meeting i need to rescape the tank

[BIGBIRD123]

Only time you need to worry is when it's 120 gls and twice in 24 hrs..Oh, yeah, that was ME! My house smelled like Galveston Bay for two weeks. I had some people come in to clean-up the mess. They sucked-up as much as they could, then put down a hurricane fan that sounded like a helicopter landing in the living room. We had to sleep with earplugs in. :wacko :blink The fan ran for three days and costs me $110 in extra electricity to run it. Siphon breaks people...siphon breaks!

Steve

[jc]

When my house was being dried out they took the baseboards out and drilled holes at the base of the walls. That way they can dry behind the sheet rock and mold will not grow. When its dry just replace the baseboards.

[Ram_Puppy]

my bad experience was paying over 2K in repairs for my downstairs neighbor. :(

the end of my RO line came loose and flopped out of the tank - as near as we can tell it ran for over a day before anyone noticed (I was working late hours and the water went down into my neighbors apartment, not out into mine.)

[prof]

Unless the stand is damaged I would not move anything. The damage is probably minimal and no more repairable now than it will be when you move. It would also suck to get the tank moved and have another accident in the new location. Then you would have two damaged spots.