Water accident! Help

[stonerjoe]

The other day I left my hose on in my basement filling my 30 gallon container. The basement was flooded really bad after it was on for 2 hours. Unfortunately, the floor is carpeted. I used a shop vac to suck up a lot of the water, but the carpet is still soaked.

My grow room floor also got wet, soaking my painters drop cloth I used underneath which resulted in some mold. I had to remove all my plants today to clean it because of the mold and high humidity in the room(between 70 and 88%).

My question is, will the high humidity levels cause my plants to not flower properly since I just put them into flowering?

and

If I clean the drop cloth and replace it how will I control the mold in the room? I am getting a small heater to put in their at night tomorrow since nighttime temps have been dropping into the 50s lately. Will that kill the mold? What should I use?

[fenderbender]

id clean it with bleach mabey? idk. Just get it good and dry

[osirus2020]

Well your first major problem is having a wet, moldy carpet in your basement. First thing I would do is rip that shit out of there and throw it away. I'm no carpet expert, but if it gets wet and moldy, I think it's done for.

To kill the mold you're going to want to get a hand pump water sprayer. The spray bottles with the trigger (like what window cleaner comes in) will work, but it will take forever. Go to Home Depot or something and get one of the 5 gallon ones that has the big pump handle on the top and a separate spray wand.

You're going to want to spray down everything in your basement with a diluted solution of bleach and water and let it air dry. The floor, ceiling, walls, spray everything including your floor joists and other exposed wood. It's not going to any damage to the house itself. If you use your basement for storage, I recommend removing everything you can before spraying.

Before bringing everything back down, go through it all and throw out anything that's moldy (including the box it was stored in) and replace with heavy duty, plastic locking boxes. This will help keep things dry next time you forget your cellar floods and will help protect the stuff inside.

There is also mold resistant paint that is intended to be painted on bare lumber in basements.

[Pharm Girl]

^ indeed!

u got a de-humidifier?

[stonerjoe]

Originally Posted by osirus2020

Well your first major problem is having a wet, moldy carpet in your basement. First thing I would do is rip that shit out of there and throw it away. I'm no carpet expert, but if it gets wet and moldy, I think it's done for.

To kill the mold you're going to want to get a hand pump water sprayer. The spray bottles with the trigger (like what window cleaner comes in) will work, but it will take forever. Go to Home Depot or something and get one of the 5 gallon ones that has the big pump handle on the top and a separate spray wand.

You're going to want to spray down everything in your basement with a diluted solution of bleach and water and let it air dry. The floor, ceiling, walls, spray everything including your floor joists and other exposed wood. It's not going to any damage to the house itself. If you use your basement for storage, I recommend removing everything you can before spraying.

Before bringing everything back down, go through it all and throw out anything that's moldy (including the box it was stored in) and replace with heavy duty, plastic locking boxes. This will help keep things dry next time you forget your cellar floods and will help protect the stuff inside.

There is also mold resistant paint that is intended to be painted on bare lumber in basements.

I ended up ripping up the entire carpet and drying the entire area. I bleached the drop cloth to remove any mold. It looks much better now. Luckily I didn't have anything on the floor like boxes that would pick up the water. I keep the area completely clean. Otherwise I would have had a bigger mess. Thanks for all your suggestions though, they helped me a great deal!