My husband thought we would save money by renting our own carpet cleaner.
Our carpet has needed cleaning for over a year now. With a dog, two kids, and two adults, the carpets have become rather dirty. So we rented the carpet cleaner and took care of the entire house in a weekend. It was a lot of work and we were proud of ourselves when we were all done. However, it’s been over a week now and there seems to be a problem. The house smells really musty and I’ve noticed a few spots of mold on the wall near the carpeting. These mold spots are in more than one room. I fear we did not vacuum up enough of the water. When I looked online about what to do about this, it recommended that we turn the air conditioner on. Apparently the air conditioner removes moisture from the air. It doesn’t matter that it’s 70 degrees outside, we cranked that air conditioner down to about 55. We also re-rented the carpet cleaner and are going to go back over all of the floors and vacuumed up more water. The other thing that is recommended is that we get a dehumidifier for every room of the house. That’s going to set us back a few dollars but I’d rather spend the money now rather than later. We need to take care of this mold problem before it gets really bad. Hopefully, between the dehumidifier and the air conditioner, we’re able to do that. It’s funny, what we thought would save us money, is actually ending up costing us in the long run.