Man, can I tell I'm going to be 50 in a couple weeks. Tonight I took all the carpeting out of the room I remodeled. I think some of it could have been saved, but I did it myself, so the only way I can do it is to cut it in pieces. I will say it looks good and doesn't really smell, but it's been wet so it's going. I think the pad is what was stinky. That's gone too as is the tack strip that was glued and nailed into the cement floor. The carpet from the store room/ cats potty room was soaked. I ripped up most of it, the rest is under a plastic shelf full of stuff and I'm just not up to it, but the worst of all of it is in the garage now. It was a lot of work, but the worst of it is done