Smelly carpet after cleaning

[JamieCat]

Hi
We rented a rugdoctor at the weekend to clean our lovely one year old carpet (we've used it before on other carpets no problem) but it has left a horrid smell that came up a day or so after. The other carpets we cleaned are ok, the new one is thicker so took longer to dry.

I have googled and it seems fairly common if carpet gets overwet but the advice seems to be replace the padding . I am trying everything (dehumidifier, open windows, bicarb soda) but has anyone had this and had the smell go away? Any other ideas?
Thanks

I think it might be ruined tbh a friend through a rug away due to a similar problem

Oh no . Hoping someone else comes along now and tells me theirs was fine

I had this problem years ago when my db gave me a loan of a rug doctor to clean my bedroom carpet. A few days later it smelt like wet dog even though it hadn't had a dog near it!

Sorry not to have good news but ours didnt recover. We had to replace it in the end as the wet dog smell was too much.

Sorry not to be the person with good news

I've just rung the rugdoctor helpline and they are going to give me some odor remover spray while they check the machine, hoping that that works and my house starts to smell less of smelly feet and wet dog!

Good luck i hope it recovers. So frustrating.

Thanks, it does smell better after the first spray, man on the helpline said could take up to 9 days of spraying to settle, so we'll see.

same thing happened to our loung carpet which is 90pc wool. it did recover after about a week but this was after loads of fabreze and even shake and vac. it is odd that all the carpets were cleaned but only this on was smelly