Toilet Overflowed on Carpet

By

Amandablue

Carpet in the bathroom is an "accident waiting to happen". With all the cleaners, bleach, and other things going on it's not a good idea to have carpet for your flooring. Perhaps it's time to make a change your bathroom?

First of all. Maybe the friend is like my friends child and has large bathroom habits (to put it nice). They need to have a knife by the toilet at all times to chop up the habits. Not the child's fault. Embarrassing yes. Should he have told you rather then go in both bathroom, yes. I am sorry about your carpet. Just wanted people to know that comment that sometimes people overflow toilets and don't do it on purpose and not to defriend them.

By

Lilac

He might be your daughter's friend but he isn't yours. Don't let him come over or if you do tell him he has to "go" elsewhere. That might sound crude but so is cleaning up after him.

By

redhatterb

You might even have to have it professionally cleaned by somebody that specifys that they remove pet odors. Also if the moisture soaked through to the sub floor, the whole foor might have to be replaced or at least the part that was in the particular area.

By

Cricketnc

First things first, I hope your daughter never has that so-called "friend" over again!
Now. The best advice I could give is to get the carpet cleaner that's made to get up pet odors. That should get it up. It may take 2-3 times of cleaning it this way but eventually it should take it up. I'd get the kind that your steam cleaner.
But it's going to take the special enzymes that the pet odor prodocts contain to get the stench up.
Once it's up and the carpet is completeely dry all the way to the floor underneath, then you could get a fresh scented something to put down. I use a outdoorsy smelling fabric softener. I mix a little in with the water in my steam cleaner and it leaves the room smelling fresh and clean.

What can I do to clean up the bacteria from overflowed toilet and sewer water on carpet?