{"id":804,"date":"2023-07-18T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/07\/home-maintenance-myth-6-carpet-feels-dry-its-safe\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:08:17","slug":"home-maintenance-myth-6-carpet-feels-dry-its-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/07\/home-maintenance-myth-6-carpet-feels-dry-its-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Maintenance Myth # 6 &#8211; Carpet Feels Dry, It&#8217;s Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"415\" data-original-width=\"415\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: medium\"><b>If Your Carpet Feels Dry, It&#8217;s Safe&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">The bad news is, even if your carpet feels dry after a water incident, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s completely dry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">That&#8217;s because standing water can seep beyond the carpet and underlay, and into the sub-floor. Mold can grow in wood and concrete sub-floor environments, and letting it linger can lead to serious and expensive issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If Your Carpet Feels Dry, It&#8217;s Safe&nbsp; The bad news is, even if your carpet feels dry after a water incident, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s completely dry. That&#8217;s because standing water can seep beyond the carpet and underlay, and into the sub-floor. Mold can grow in wood and concrete sub-floor environments, and letting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}