subject: Protecting Your Carpet With A Moisture Absorber [print this page] Sometimes, no matter what you try and do, you cannot stop rainwater from entering your home beneath French doors, patio doors or particularly troublesome windows. This could be to do with a design flaw, or just the way that the prevailing wind blows water during a rain event.
You might think that you've tried everything to deal with water infiltration, but still to no avail and you don't want to have to spend all your spare time defending your home in this way, whenever it rains heavily!
When our homes are designed and constructed, sometimes the area immediately around can be elevated. The drainage system may have been planned correctly, but rainwater may still find its way into your home. You might well be considering renovation of the drainage system, but you might want to look at a more flexible option in the meantime. If you purchase a moisture absorber or two, you should be set.
Whenever an emergency situation arises and water is threatening to get into your home and ruin your carpet, a moisture absorber product can be worth its weight in gold. A lot is at stake and you would be better off stocking several of these items, much more effective than trying to use rolled up towels in the heat of the battle.
Several inches of rain can emanate from a summer storm in the tropical south in a very short space of time. If you have a pool area, this can quickly fill up and overwhelm the small drains. This is when water will threaten to enter your pool's bathroom door or patio doors and a moisture absorber product can prevent your swimming pool from becoming part of your indoors!
Corncob is an amazing moisture absorber which can absorb up to 1000 times its own weight in water, amazingly. When contained within a flexible polypropylene cover, the solution becomes very flexible and long-lasting and can be air dried when the emergency is over.
Moisture absorbers are also known as hurricane socks in the South, which shows just how effective they can be in these most serious of all storms. They will surely be able to cope with anything if they can deal with storm wind driven rain.
If rainwater can get in, wintry drafts may also infiltrate the same space and some people use the moisture absorber as a draft absorber as well, finding multiple uses for the same investment.
