Cleaned the hall carpet with a Vax wet hoovery thing t'other day and now it stinks. May have left it a bit wet for a bit. It's dry now after a third "sucking up" session but it still pongs.

Is it ruined or is there an amazing potion I can deploy?

Have you got cats? Burn it.

What – the cats? How will that help? 😯

If your in Reading I'll take it off your hands if its not too bad (need to re-carpet the garrage, long story)

You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back, do the shake and vac and put the freshness back

It's possibly the underlay which is still damp. Leave it to dry a little longer, or accept you nede to get the floorboards exposed…

You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back, do the shake and vac and put the freshness back

That would be like Mr. Sheening a fresh turd.

This needs something "subcutaneous."

Bicarbonate soda, spread on generously, brush in, vacuum it up.

If you can lift the carpet lift it and the underlay, take outside and leave to dry in the sun, also try applying a coat of varnish to the floorboards, to stop stains sinking in.

mucker – Mrs. Starship loves you.

That bicarb' has completely neutralised the pong. Gonna leave it over night and vac it away.

Thanks for a top tip!

any solutions other than take it to the tip

instead of taking it to the tip, you could just dump it down the road a bit (if you live in that kind of place) or throw it onto a railway embankment or drive it to a lay-by near a beauty spot and shove it out.

Lots of folk think the above solutions are just fine.

Wrap it up in a big roll then bury it in a nearby forest. Good practice for the police.

Another top tip. Fill a bowl with warm water and white vinegar to get rid of stale odours in the air.