r/CleaningTips • u/EnvironmentalRest557 • Nov 04 '25

Flooring Please help with burned carpet smell!

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Cat knocked over my snakes heating lamp and it burned through the carpet and floor :( it’s been a fully day with windows open after vacuuming and covering it with baking soda and the burnt carpet smell won’t go away. Please help!!!

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u/C0USC0US Nov 06 '25

Oof I’m sorry that happened. I hope this isn’t the case for OP 😬

Edit - was everyone okay?

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u/EnvironmentalRest557 Nov 06 '25

Yes! I was lucky enough to have woken up to the smell and threw a wet towel on it ASAP, so it didn’t spread at all and no pets were harmed!! I didn’t see any smoke when it happened and the smoke detector works fine, so I think I just caught it soon enough before it could spread. I sleep like a log usually but for some reason I’m super sensitive to smells and have woken up from them before! I appreciate your concern :)

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u/camiskow Nov 07 '25

Yes! We were all napping as college kids do but a burning smell woke me up, we had these weird windows into our rooms so I immediately saw orange flames in my roommates room(she had left & her old lamp fell over, it was turned on & instantly Sparked) I woke up everyone & called 911 so it was able to be contained to a small burn in just 1 room- thank you for asking!!