Back when I first started growing in apartments I would put a tarp over the carpet to protect the floor. If there was any real water spill it would still get everything wet. I eventually started using plastic hydro tables to catch water runoff and that worked well. Even when you have hydro trays you still spill stuff. Now I usually work in concrete floors, but when I have carpet I put a piece of pond liner on the floor. Keeps it totally dry and your mind at ease. I have flooded my whole room on accident and just sucked up the water with a shopvac.
Pretty straight forward install, but here are some pictures from my setup. Regular bedroom about 10x15 feet. I got the pond liner around 13x18 so it would run up the walls and I can spill hundreds of gallons in there without it flooding. If you line the walls with black/white poly and overlap on the pond liner you could spray a hose in the room and it would all be caught in the pond liner.
Ok here is the carpet and the frame I made around the room. The frame is there to keep the pond liner raised up so no water will be running off. You don't need the frame on the walls, but 2x4s are cheap so I just framed it all in.
and here is what it looks like after the pond liner goes in and stapled to the walls.
See how the 2x4 raised up the pond liner. Door still opens but no spillage.
Pond liner is thick so don't worry about walking around on it or setting up your tables or whatever. The stuff is designed to stretch a little bit with roots and rocks and all that jazz.
Anyways, just another idea for people to think about. You can grab this stuff at home depot/lowes and maybe even your hydro store. Cost about $100 for this room so cheap compared to the cost of replacing carpet and anything else a big flood ruins.
Pretty straight forward install, but here are some pictures from my setup. Regular bedroom about 10x15 feet. I got the pond liner around 13x18 so it would run up the walls and I can spill hundreds of gallons in there without it flooding. If you line the walls with black/white poly and overlap on the pond liner you could spray a hose in the room and it would all be caught in the pond liner.
Ok here is the carpet and the frame I made around the room. The frame is there to keep the pond liner raised up so no water will be running off. You don't need the frame on the walls, but 2x4s are cheap so I just framed it all in.
and here is what it looks like after the pond liner goes in and stapled to the walls.
See how the 2x4 raised up the pond liner. Door still opens but no spillage.
Pond liner is thick so don't worry about walking around on it or setting up your tables or whatever. The stuff is designed to stretch a little bit with roots and rocks and all that jazz.
Anyways, just another idea for people to think about. You can grab this stuff at home depot/lowes and maybe even your hydro store. Cost about $100 for this room so cheap compared to the cost of replacing carpet and anything else a big flood ruins.
