How to dry out carpet? Flooded from shower

[jacobscreekchardonnay1991]

Showering, daydreaming - more like disassociating, I have PTSD and in a bad flare up just now - realised I’d soaked the bathroom and it’s flooded through to my bedroom.

This is rented accommodation. I’m 99% convinced it’s a very cheap carpet and I’m on the ground floor.

I’ve soaked up what I can with towels, opened the window as far as I can but I’m not sure what else I can do? Carpet can’t be lifted up to dry underneath. Will it just dry over the next couple of days? I’m worried it’s going to end up stinking.

Can you borrow a carpet cleaner to suck the water out? Or a dehumidifier?

I'd somehow lay hands on a fan heater (hot-air blower thing), put it on cool (not too hot for fear of shrinkage), point it towards the damp patch and leave it going for a good few hours moving it a bit now and then.

Hairdryer? Keep doing it at regular intervals until it's dry.

Beg , borrow or buy a dehumidifier. I did when the ground floor bedroom was flooded and it saved the carpet.

I second a carpet cleaner. Similar happened to us and it dried up the carpet really well. You can hire them from tesco.

Nope, don't dry it with heat. Dehumidifier & a cold fan are the best (close the windows and door as much as you can, otherwise you're dehumidifying the planet!). Extraction first with carpet cleaning machine if you can borrow one, if not, just use towels and stand on them, soak up as much as you can). BE CAREFUL using coloured ones though for the dye in them.

(used to own a company part of it was drying out carets after flooding)

I’d agree with others about dehumidifier. It could go mouldy if not properly dried