Hiya Uncle Old Duke and CB!!!!

Happy Sat-Your-Day!!! Sorry for the tardy reply. Long hours at the cGMP plant this week. Yet can afford double-fisted ale pints.

Lysol contains no chlorine or sodium hydrochloride (ite?).

Yeah, chlorine bleach is an oxidizer and denatures proteins them rotten stinky microbes are made up of. Yet bleach will probably not do the carpet all to good as it fades color and may even break down the acrylic (?) car carpet fiber.

Bleach will cause rust in carbon steal through the oxidizer action.

Vinegar has limited effect. Treats them stink-causing microbes to a brief rush of sort of low acidic PH. It is a useful cleaning compound. And I guess as it dries in the carpet it will leave for a time an acidic quality so as to limit microbial action when wetness happens again.

Don't care for the vinegar odor.

Lysol uses a few different antimicrobial compounds with the newer compounds, some sort of chloro-hexane-something (the compound has chlorine in it, in the lemon bottle you pour into a squirt bottle as I used with this through the wall A/C unit I had to cleanse). It does not have that chemically smell and the lemon fragrance is rather mild. Spray to soak and let dry. The cmpound sustains bettwe and offer a broader antimicrobial spectrum than does vinegar.

The issue I have with vingar is the smell. You use a white vinegar. Concentrate above the usual 3%. The smell fades as it dries. As with that lemon lysol, though more frequently, you reapply.

You may want to find the source of the moisture intrusion or collection. You have a garage to park in Uncle Old Duke, yeah? I forget. Yet water collecting like that on humid dry days in western or southwestern FL-state seems odd.

Do you have fogged windows on the interior side like in the cool mornings?

I guess you check the coolant level in the coolant expansion tank. Any variation?

Your A/C does not work .... so why you have a wet carpet that makes a smell is a mystery.

Yet Lysol won't cause the mold and mildew bits to disappear like bleach does, as it faed the carpet.

What I used:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lysol-Clean-Fresh-Multi-Surface-Cleaner-Lemon-Sunflower-40oz/11047260

Has Alkyl (50% C14, 40% C12, 10% C16) Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chlorides (1.1856%).

Spray it on. Let dry.

Happy Sat-Your-Day.

Hope that halps you.

Does not smell like a peep show or anything in 1970s Baltimore or St. Louis.




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