I'm screwed, what do i do??

crimsonmoon

crimsonmoon

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Aug 31, 2008
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i was just doing a water change on my 29 gallon in my room and my brother came in and asked me to help him build a fire in the fireplace. so pulled up the siphon to stop the water flow into the bucket, and go help him. about 10 minutes later i hear this really irritating splashing sound. i ran into my room and the bucket was overflowing onto my floor. the 29 gallon had about 5 inches of water left in it. i guess i didn't pull the siphon out long enough to stop the flow.
im so screwed. if at all possible im not going to tell my parents, but should i? if it will cause any problems to the house then i will tell them, but if not i would rather keep it between me and the fish...i am on the seond floor btw...
i have used about 12 towels to soak stuff up and it is starting to dry out a bit, but there is still a little water in the carpet..
:help:
 
ok, there are no droplets on the ceiling below me. whew. still soaking up stuff tho.
 
Turn a fan on and open a window. 20 gallons or so isn't too terribly bad.
 
Get every towel in the house and throw down on the carpet. If you've used all the towels, then get some blankets and throw them down and keep walking on them and soaking all the water out of the carpet. Keep doing that until you don't see the towels or blankets getting very wet.

That's a lot of water in the carpet and in the pad underneath.
You can vacuum it if your dad has one of those wet/dry shopvacs in his garagae/workshop.

You can rent a carpet cleaner at the grocery stores and get a product that inhibits mold and use it in that.

I'd have a major coniption if I found out that one of my upstairs rooms had a major leak of aquarium water in it. That is really a lot of water that spreads out over a large area and will stay in the pad under the carpet unless you really soak or vacuum up the majority of it.

I hope it works out for you. You might be better off if you just
"fess up" and let your parents handle the carpet cleaning.

If you want to keep your parents from learning about this mishap then be sure to wash and dry the towels and blankets and put away after you do that.
 
a carpet shampooer is the best method.. because they SUCK up water really well

if you dont have access to one... use lotsa towels and keep doing it untill its mostly dry
 
Deffinately a shop vac or a rug cleaner would pick up water the best, but alot of towels will help alot too..I figure you got right on it,it shouldent be soaked in too bad
 
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