I've Rug Doctored my floors, but they now stink! <<boak>>

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The carpets look a million times cleaner, but they now smell of mushrooms. t's a really overpowering damp earth smell.

I was really careful to go over the floors w/o spraying to get them as dry as poss, but ye gods! It reeks!

What can I do?

Wait for them to dry, the smell should go

my house sometimes smells of cat piss wet dog when I wash the carpets but smells much better after its all properly dry.

Does the smel get better, or do we just get used to it, Kitten?

It smelled like this last time I saw the Doctor, and it gradually faded, but it's much worse this time. Because of all the dog piss

I'm worried my house will smell like a cellar and I won't notice.

You do the Shake'n'Vac
And put the freshness back.
Do the Shake'n'Vac
And out the Freshness back!

Mine did the same and a few other people i no that have used the rug doctor. The smell did go after a few days.

We used a rug doctor and the place reeked for about a week while the carpets were drying out. It was great after that though.

The smell does go eventually, but will reoccur if they get wet again. I only do mine when the weather's hot for this reason, or if it's winter then I crank up the heating really high so they dry quickly. I would get the house toasty until the smell goes.

There was another thread about this about a month ago. I just did a search but don't know how to link. Anywhere sounds like the other op rang a rug doctor helpline and was given some sort of spray to use.

Get a few large packs of bicarbonate of soda from Robert Dyas or similar. Sprinkle a medium fine layer all over the carpets before you go to bed. Hoover it up in the morning. It sucks up ALL smells and it lasts quite long. Plus, it doesn't leave the smell of old ladies hand bag that Shake n Vac does ;)

Ooh lots of helpful relies!

Thank you all.
I have some bicarb, so I'm going to try that. Id worry a bit about the dog inhaling all the shake n vac, although I promise I'll do the song, Poledra.

Bluebell, was the spray ££? I might get sme frebreeze or something.

We made the mistake of rug-doctoring just before we had a load of visitors a few months ago & had the same problem . It did go eventually & I found neutradol powder worked well in the meantime.

Oh no, Longy!
I'm dreading someone coming to the door.