Pee in the carpets

Kkye · #1 11-03-2009, 02:16 PM

Can anyone suggest anything to remove or at least really minimize the odour?

We just moved into a place that had cats. Apparently one closet had poop in it, and there was a big garbage bag full of dirty litter. Those things are gone, and the smell is getting better.

I don't know if the former tenant's cats were the ones who did it, or if it's the landlord's cats, who I know have been down there when the place was empty. It's completely reasonable that they may have peed over old urine spots from the former cats. Either way, it doesn't matter how it got there, but it's there, and it stinks.

I have febreeze candles going, they help but not for long. And it's not completely intolerable, but it's still there just below the surface.

I sprayed the floor in my bedroom, where it's the worst, with Nature's Miracle, got the floor wet with it and let it dry with a fan on it. I did notice that it helped but when I went in there this morning after going outside with the girls, I could smell it still.

I don't want to move again. But I don't want a place that smells like pee. The landlords are kinda scabby but are willing to do quite a bit to get me to stay

Well? What can I use? I know I can rent a steam-cleaner with an enzyme solution...would that be my best bet?

pipsie71 · #2 11-03-2009, 02:32 PM

I was just gonna suggest if you could afford to rent a professional piece of cleaning equipment such as a steam cleaner.

Yes I do think that would be your best bet to be honest Madison.

When we lost Paddy, we hired a 'Rug Doctor' and used the special stuff for animal stains/smells, as he'd had quite a few accidents due to his steroids bless him, and he was a GSD so that was quite a lot of wee wee.

The carpets smelt rank, but after we used the rug doctor they were fab!

We've hired one again since Tilly had a few accidents whilst house training, they really are brilliant and very easy to use.

That is def what I'd do, Pip

Kkye · #3 11-03-2009, 02:41 PM

Aha. Well, that may be the solution. I'm gonna wait for others to pop in with their two cents

But yes, a Rug Doctor is I think what we would end up getting anyways, I think that's the one...they rent them at the U-Haul place.

How long did the carpets take to dry?

pipsie71 · #4 11-03-2009, 02:45 PM

Well they're not really that wet so not long at all.

It only cost about £20 to hire and the special stuff we bought for about £6, but we can use that again say if one of them is sick or whatever.

And they're so easy to use too.

Yeah see what the others say just incase someone knows a really good way to rid the smell!

Pip

devastated70 · #5 11-03-2009, 03:23 PM

i agree on the steam cleaning,, and it may take more than just the one time,, but i think it will most certainly help... cat wee wee is the hardest smell to get out of carpet, clothes, etc..
if it is a small area (like the closet), if you are able to lift up the carpet, take the old padding out and replace that,,, and clean the carpet, i'm sure it is soaked in to the padding as well. if not, then i'm sure the steam cleaning will help

CKelly976 · #6 11-03-2009, 04:38 PM

you should be able to just rent a rug doctor and score some enzymatic urine cleaner for shampooers, I've been debaiting over jumping on the natures miracle shampooer stuff to completely de stain my carpet, but my shampooer has lost its last leg and is dragging itself slowly to the grave.

e1beth1 · #7 11-03-2009, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by CKelly976

you should be able to just rent a rug doctor and score some enzymatic urine cleaner for shampooers, I've been debaiting over jumping on the natures miracle shampooer stuff to completely de stain my carpet, but my shampooer has lost its last leg and is dragging itself slowly to the grave.

I was going to suggest exactly this, carpet shampooer using the natures miracle enzymatic urine cleaner. You need to get through all the way to the padding under the carpet. Just the Nature's Miracle was good but you need a little more.

Kkye · #8 11-03-2009, 05:03 PM

Can I fill it with a bottle of the Nature's Miracle from work? I know they sell their own enzyme pet cleaner, the rental place.

What if it's down in the padding and all the way to the floor? New carpets then?

Thanks girls

Kkye · #9 11-03-2009, 05:04 PM

And what's the difference between a shampooer and a steam-cleaner?

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Betty28 · #10 11-03-2009, 05:09 PM

I had the same question a while back and someone suggested the steam cleaning route. I ended up renting, it worked so well that I decided to pony up the money and buy one. Let me tell you, WELL WORTH IT! These things are incredible and you can use them for pretty much everything in the kitchen including the floors. Take a look at www.1-800-GO-VAPOR.com

Good Luck!

Wiztherewoz · #11 11-03-2009, 05:13 PM

If I were you, I'd just get rid of the carpets completely. You can buy carpets pretty cheap from some places that'd do until you could save enough for decent stuff, and it might be easier than faffing around with cleaners and stuff. Stinky carpets are intolerable! My nephew threw up on ours once, the smell lingered and lingered, it had to go! When Frank pooped a stink-bomb on mine I cut that piece out with a stanley knife and had a big stupid gap there until I could afford my new flooring.

Get riiiiiiiiiid!

Unless you're not completely lazy like me and are willing to go to all that trouble cleaning them of course.

Good luck!! It's so unfair that you finally get a new home and you have to de-stink the place! Was it clean other than the cat mess? Yukkies.

Kkye · #12 11-03-2009, 05:30 PM

Heather, not clean at all. We had to wash absolutely everything.

See, I will not pay for new carpets in a rental, lol. No way. They can pay for it if they want new carpets in there, and they can hire guys to move my stuff, and they can put us up in a hotel for a few days till they're done! Really.

It's so ridiculous. I think I'll go with the enzyme steam cleaner. Either they pay for it, or I do and they take it off my rent

e1beth1 · #13 11-03-2009, 05:32 PM

Steam Cleaner, sorry to mix them up. The problem isn't usually as much that it's in the padding, it's that if it's soaked to the padding it's also soaked into the wooden sub floor and the carpet tack strips, that's what continues to hold the smell even after a steam clean. Pay the money to get the good stuff, it's worth it.

CKelly976 · #14 11-03-2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Kkye

Can I fill it with a bottle of the Nature's Miracle from work? I know they sell their own enzyme pet cleaner, the rental place.

What if it's down in the padding and all the way to the floor? New carpets then?

Thanks girls

the shampooer should soak all the way down to the padding, and I know that natures miracle makes and actual shampooer concentrate, so I wouldn't be concerned about it not soaking through.

I don't know about just dumping a bottle in there, shampooer cleaners are a very high concentration and typically you use uh...h/o 3-5 oz of cleaner per gallon (i think) of water.

I've never tried a steamer, My best frineds mom donated the shampooer to me when I moved in here so I could clean the carpets before I moved everything in (my landlord didn't clean) and I've used it to clean out my office, living room and its even cleaned up a doggy diarrhea stain under my bed.

my only precaution with renting is to make sure you clean the shampooer water tank out before you clean your carpets to make sure any left over dirt isn't being cycled into your carpet.

and watch out for wet feet, it takes a little while to dry

Kkye · #15 11-04-2009, 12:48 PM

Well it turns out that my roommate wants to buy is a steamcleaner; she says with the four animals already and the fact that she wants a kitten...she figures we should have one.

The carpet in my bedroom is being replaced the first week of December. I'm going to keep spraying Nature's Miracle on there, just cuz I can and it makes me feel like I'm doing something about it