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We found a nice free used couch the other day for my mom, and had to figure out how to load it up on our truck and carry it over 60 miles in the pouring rain (lemmy.world)

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Usually we have a strict rule around here to never pick up used furniture, as it's entirely possibly infested with bedbugs. But this was a bit different, this was donated from a ~~church~~ school (my bad). It looks basically brand spanking new, save for a small hole in the left arm of it.

Yeah it got half soaked in the rain, but no big deal, it's at my mom's place now drying out. Here in a couple or few days whenever she tells me it's dry enough, we're gonna haul her old beat up couch away.

Edit: Photo added, cushions are off to the side still drying.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Been my experience that a good shop vac to pull out most of the water really helps prevent any issues from upholstery staying wet. You'll never get it all that way, but minimising what stays deep in the padding lets the outer layers wick more out than they otherwise would. Air flow helps too, more than trying to keep temperatures up since higher temps are never enough to kill mold and mildew.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I hear ya, but we were a bit lacking on such things.

The couch will be fine, it only got rained on, not like it got dunked in the ocean..