You can put items back right away while carpet is damp, but you would need to put something under the legs such as aluminum foil, plastic wrap, or wax paper to protect the carpet from rusting of metal or wood stain bleeding. Or let us know you’ll be doing that and we can leave some of our pads or blocks with you. Usually the next day you can return items back without furniture protectors. We put protection under the items we move that require it.