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Here's the bottom line truth: Sometimes you can save your rugs or wall to wall flooring after water damage and flooding, and sometimes you can't.
Because . . .
...carpet is made of absorbent materials,
...the backing is usually also some type of fiber,
...carpet is generally laid over a pad that's a porous material,
...the sub flooring beneath it is usually plywood,
...the plywood is usually lying over wood floor joists.
You've got a sort of "perfect storm" of conditions for mold to grow.
Mold loves nothing better than a damp, warm, moist, humid place to live, with plenty of dead organisms to feed on. Damp carpet is extremely hard to completely dry out because often water or moisture penetrates to the backing, the pad, the sub floor and beyond. This means that mold and other fungi can eat and grow and send out spores and spread very quickly.
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