Clean Water vs Gray Water Carpet Assessment in Fort Myer, VA

Clean Water vs Gray Water Carpet Assessment in Fort Myer, VA

A clean water vs gray water carpet assessment tells you whether your carpet can be saved before anyone starts drying it. The IICRC S500 standard puts water into three categories, and the category decides the whole job.

Category 1 is clean water from a supply line, a sink overflow or rain through a window. Carpet soaked with Category 1 water is usually extracted and dried in place. Category 2 is gray water. It carries some contamination: washing machine discharge, dishwasher overflow, aquarium water. Carpet can often be saved if it is cleaned, sanitized and dried quickly, but the pad is replaced. Category 3 is black water from sewage or outside flooding. Carpet and pad both come out.

There is a catch. Water gets worse with time. Clean water that sits in warm carpet for two or three days picks up bacteria and becomes Category 2. So a clean leak found late is not always a clean water job.

Fort Myer, VA Wet Carpet Drying does a clean water vs gray water carpet assessment in Fort Myer, VA on every call. We look at the source, how long the water sat, and the smell and condition of the carpet. Then we tell you plainly what we can dry and what needs to go.

Call Fort Myer, VA Wet Carpet Drying at (833) 606-3282 to book an assessment.