Massive Spill In My Second Floor Grow Room! What Do I Do?!

So I left one of my hoses unhooked and it pumped roughly 15 gallons of water into my carpeted closet . I checked with the neighbors below me and they haven't noticed anything leaking through the ceiling. I'm drying the carpet with grow lights and fans. Is there anything else I can do? Will all that water that soaked into the floor cause mold and other problems? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

knock.. knock.. knock.. hwllo.. i was just watering my marijuana plants and i left the hose off, and was wondering if any leaked down into your house... lmao..
sorry to laugh at you m8, and i hope you got it all straightened out... so long as you get any standing puddles picked up, and dry out the carpet the best you can, you should be good to go..

Id use a shop vac or carpet cleaner to suck up what you can and make sure nothing is on the carpet till it is dry

K thanks. What I'm really concerned about is where all that water could have gone. I had a layer of trashbags over the carpet, and the carpet doesn't seem as wet as should be. I'm guessing that it pushed all the water towards the walls and it leaked down from there. Is that going to fuck shit up in the walls/ceiling downstairs?

yah, 15 gallons of water is quite a bit, it could possibly soak into the walls and cause some kind of damage.. not trying to be a downer here, just trying to be realistic..

racerboy71 said:

knock.. knock.. knock.. hwllo.. i was just watering my marijuana plants and i left the hose off, and was wondering if any leaked down into your house... lmao..
sorry to laugh at you m8, and i hope you got it all straightened out...

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I've been trying to laugh about it myself. I told them that the toilet overflowed

LMAO!!! good idea!!! pull the carpet up & shop vac, then leave fans on till dry. I feel your pain; this is why I'll never do DWC again.

uhhwhat said:

I've been trying to laugh about it myself. I told them that the toilet overflowed

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lmao.. i like you uh.. your quick on your feet.. i don't even know wtf i would've said, lol..

The water is gone it will run down the walls, or find a way out... as long as you dont do that every week, it wont hurt.. well to bad.

Thanks everyone. I pulled out the carpet and the foam underneath and threw it on the roof to dry. I'll leave the fans and 1000W of lights on the floor for awhile. Any guess on how long I should keep that going?

Til the humidity comes down for sure. Now that you pulled your carpet and pad it's a good idea maybe to water proof your closet.

carefull you dont burn your carpet with the grow lights too close...

if you want to make your toilet overflow story believeable... urinate on your floor, and maybe take a dump on it... no one will question you then...

drywall acts as a sponge.. call your local water damage guy and ask them what 15 gallons of water dumped into your walls will do? mold (bad for you and the plant), water damage, elect corrosion.. yep mate, your fight aint over..

uhhwhat said:

Thanks everyone. I pulled out the carpet and the foam underneath and threw it on the roof to dry. I'll leave the fans and 1000W of lights on the floor for awhile. Any guess on how long I should keep that going?

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A day or two should be fine you'll get as much water out of there as you're going to in that amount of time.

That's exactly what I was going to suggest doing was pulling up the carpet and pad to make sure you dry out the floorboards as well. Once you've got it good and dried out, before you put everything back down what I would do is take a cap full of bleach and dilute it into a spray bottle and nail that whole area with bleach water and let it dry. Then put all your carpeting back down and then plastic up that whole area. That will help minimize any possible mold growth and whatnot. =)

I would get a dehumidifier.

Pack up your grow room now, store it somewhere safe, and lay low. Same thing happened to me with only 5 gallons, thought i controlled it, and soaked it all up then one day i came home to find the local task force waiting for me in my apartment. Turns out the handyman came in to my apartment, saw what i had, and called the cops. 5 gallons is a lot of water, 15 gallons is a child's inflatable pool!! U can blow off my advice as too inconvenient, or you can say fuck it and not take a chance.

shitty man. Shit like this happens and you learn from it. If it soaked into the walls you could have a mold problem on your hands. You might have to clear your room out and spray everything down with a water / bleach solution to kill off any mold that may be present.

canibud said:

The water is gone it will run down the walls, or find a way out... as long as you dont do that every week, it wont hurt.. well to bad.

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a good piece of advice i heard once was, " Shut your mouth if you don't know what you're talking about."