Ugent - Cleaned carpets and now it smells!

[Kel S]

My husband and I cleaned the carpets in one of the houses day before yesterday. We couldn't leave the windows open to help air it out due to thunderstorms here. Hubby goes over this afternoon and said the smell hit him like a brick wall when he walked in. It's like a dirty sock smell and I'm sure it's from the carpeting not being totally dry. Problem is our tenant is moving in tomorrow night!! Any suggestions? He's going to go over tonite and open the windows and use some frebreeze on the carpets...hoping that will help. Anyone have this problem before and if so what did you do? We also are going to run the ceiling fans and a couple floor box fans to see if we can speed up the drying. It's not that wet now though...just barely damp.

Oops, sorry I guess I can't spell Urgent tonite.

[Joshua Dorkin]

Rent an industrial fan from home depot or another DIY store to blowdry the carpets.