BS: Pee smell not in carpet... It's in...

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Donuel
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:55 PM

At pet smart stores they have the expensive plain lable enzyme and the cheaper enzyme product that has a foul oderant added.

Get the expensive one.

You can add it to the wash cycle too. You put it where the bleach would go.

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: ranger1
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:49 PM

Nature's Miracle is the name of the enzyme stuff. If it can get the smell of cat pee out, it can get rid of just about anything.

You gonna do DNA testing and findd out what peed on your steps?

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:33 PM

And if the carpet is put down with those strips that have nails pointing up it could even be in the wood -- even the studs. We didn't buy a place just two door up from our house because there was cat pee in the carpet, pad, wall studs, sill plate....

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:30 PM

Hey, sounds like WYSuzie knows what she is talkin' about, Rap...

Thanks, Suze... Man, I hope it ain't in the pad... I know what black peed-on carpet padding looks and smells like... Not somethin' you'll find on an dinner menus even in the worst of eateries... Yuck!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:20 PM

I actually do defer to the experts. Bobert, do what she says!

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:14 PM

Nononono... first you get the magic enzyme thingie. It EATS the organic odor-ingredients. It's exactly the same stuff as you'd put in the RV's waste tank, MINUS the nasty deodorizing smell those products have. Carpet cleaning pros use it all the time. I think they put it right into the rug shampoo nowadays. Or it can be a separate step. (I'm outta that biz a LONG time.)

THEN after that all dries you use the Febreze if a smell lingers.

That said, it will never come out if it's down in the pad. For that you gotta peel up the rug, send it out to be cleaned with enzymes, and put down a new pad, and, if it's wall to wall, restretch just like a new install.

But when you peel it up.... that is also when you see how widely the stuff had spread on the carpet's underside, and sometimes you'll see that the backing is rotted as well. Cuz that stuff is hard on burlap. An' it sits and sets..... this is why landlords do not allow pets. Major expense to undo peepee and poopoo.

~Former househiold cleaning service mgr/estimator

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 11 - 10:10 PM

Well, somebody done went and peed on yer steps. Don't matter none -- the problem is not mine but your'n.

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 11 - 09:59 PM

Don't smell like pet urine, Rap... But, okay, I'll try it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 11 - 09:56 PM

Try Febreze for Pets...if that doesn't work there are a bunch of other "pet odor" removers out there.

OR! Replace the carpet!

Subject: BS: Gettin' Urine Smell outta Carpet???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 11 - 09:54 PM

Sorry to have to ask so much stuff but...

Seems that there's a annoying smell of urine in the carpet going up the steps to the new house and I'd kinda like to make it go away...

Any ideas???

No, rap... I ain't gonna burn the house down!!!

B~