Tip: Removing Pet Urine Smell From Carpet
Archived on 08/09/2005
On a humid day, does your house smell like a zoo? Why spend big bucks on carpet cleaning, and enzymatic cleaners when trying to remove pet urine smells from carpet?
Mix one gallon of white vinegar with one gallon of water. Pour it straight on the area with urine and let is soak the carpet, pad, and sub floor. After letting it sit for about 30 minutes, use a carpet machine to pull out as much solution as you can. Your house may smell like vinegar for a few days, but it will dissipate over time. The vinegar neutralizes the urine smell and your house will smell so clean. Enzymatic cleaners cost approximately $12 -
$15 per 8oz. 1 gallon of vinegar is $2.50. What a savings and just as effective!
By Meari
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If you have the dog or other pets you will need to use an enzyme based cleaner, available at most pet stores; even WalMart carries a good one called Pet Out. White vinegar will remove the smell as far as a human is concerned, but will leave enough scent to continue attracting animals to the area. Treat the carpet according to the product directions. If you can get to the under-layment, then you can coat that with any shellac based primer to seal in any remaining scent. It has to be shellac, don't settle for Kilz. (07/07/2004)
By Patticat
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I agree with Patticat. Once it gets to the under-layment, you will need to use shellac to seal in the smell. If it is in one place, pull up the rug in that area and treat the rug, pad and floor with Pet Out, Nature's Miracle or another enzyme type cleaner. Once the under-layment is dry, coat it with shellac, making sure to go outside the edges of the stain.
When the shellac is dry, put the rug back down and shampoo the carpet in that area. Hopefully that will remove all of the smell. If it is all over the place, it may be necessary to replace the rug. It is easy to tell where the under-layment is ruined once the carpet is up. If the under-layment is warped, you may need to replace it, too. Nasty job but sometimes it's necessary. (07/07/2004)
By Susan from ThriftyFun
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Go to your local Dollar General Store, and, on the laundry aisle, get a bottle of DG Fabric Refresher Super Strength - $1.50. It's the same as Febreze. Spray liberally on every layer of carpet, pad and floor. Leave to dry. It will lift the odor out; there will be no smell when the spray dries. (I'm sure that Family Dollar has a similar product, also.) (12/12/2004)
By Janet45101
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Get a steam cleaner solution made for pet odors. Steam clean repeatedly. The scent will indeed come up again so this is why it is necessary to steam clean three, four times in the area. In-between efforts use arm and hammer carpet powder for pets and also vacuum the area before steam cleaning. If the smell remains try febreeze (or alternative) and spray liberally every day for a week. This is what I always try to do but is very time consuming as you can see. I personally will be trying the vinegar! (01/23/2005)
By Melody
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Use white vinegar and then spray the Stay Off Training aid to help keep the pet from going to the bathroom on the carpet again. (03/10/2005)
By Michelle
Borax
Sprinkle borax on the area, rub in, vacuum it up or shampoo, but let borax work for at least a half hour! (08/10/2005)
By Zorrosbabe
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Archived on 05/15/2009
I have been overwhelmed by the horrible smell in my carpet! I have steamed, used baking soda, enzyme sprayed, etc. with no success. I have since decided to use previously used coffee grounds. I have read that it works miracles on many things! I took dried coffee grinds sprinkled all over smelly areas. I left it on overnight.
I vacuumed this morning. The smell is going away! It is still faint; but I can sit on the couch and not feel sick to my stomach! I would recommend using this for several days. (I will let you know if it goes away!) I already notice the area where I ran out of grinds. It smells. I look forward to drying out more grinds from this mornings brew! It does need to be repeated.
Good wishes on your smells!
By Viktorya from Dayton, OH
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The odor probably isn't in your carpet anymore. It's in the floor! I rented a place once like yours and I had to have the landlord rip up the carpet and treat the floor. That worked! (04/17/2009)
By ivorylov
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Plain old white vinegar. If you have carpet you will have to soak it down to the flooring underneath. The vinegar smell will go away when it dries. If the smell is old you may have to repeat, be patient. (04/19/2009)
By 1stborn
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What really gets rid of cat urine odors, cheaply? No, I won't give up my babies, but something has GOT to work. Has anyone had any success at all without it costing an arm and a leg? The smell is in the carpets.
Kip from Llano, TX
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I too have successfully used Natures Remedy and have found it to work every time. If you're unsure where exactly the urine is in the room, turn off the lights and use a blacklight - the urine stain will glow white. (10/23/2008)
By Lori
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I have used white vinegar pouring it directly on the carpet remember to soak the padding underneath as well. Worked for me. The vinegar scent goes away fairly quickly after it dries.
Cats usually don't pee without cause, make sure you have kitty checked for underlying bladder infection, getting bloodwork for kidney problems. Then if it's behavioral (like my skittish kitty), the kitty can be placed on behavioral meds like Wellbutrin.
Could be as simple as she wants another box or doesn't like litter. (Some cats like to poop and pee separately.) Sometimes their is an issue of ownership of a box by another cat. Or she may just want to pee and its being used.
PS - Just saw post of woman spraying her cat with vinegar when she is near the spot. Please don't do that! Never spray your cat with anything other than water! You can do harm to their eyes. Believe me water in a spray bottle will do the trick. (10/25/2008)
By Dorina
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I have also used products from Getthesmellout.com My parents have four cats and one doesn't like the litter box. We treated all the spots we could find -with a black light and our noses - with Get the Urine Out. I took care of all the urine smell. (11/17/2008)
By Rich
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A friend told me to try putting dry, unused coffee grounds down on the spot where my cat had peed. Leave the grounds down for a couple of hours (my friend said a day, but we've found that 3-4 hours is enough). Afterward, just vacuum it up. Worked like a charmed. Not just for carpets, any cloth. (11/29/2008)
By Karen
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Thanks Kristen, Odogone from Sam's club is amazing! My dog peed on my carpet three days before Christmas. I'm having 30 people at my home and my family room stunk of urine even after steam cleaning the carpet twice! I sprayed Odogone and the smell is gone. I can't believe it! I'm so happy. Thank you so much! (12/23/2008)
By Colleen
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Just a little tip: Professional carpet cleaners that offer deodorizer can not offer that it will get out animal urine smell! That is because it does NOT work so don't waste your money! Now with no pets and to make your house smell good, is what it's meant for! Another tip: if the urine new, pour salt on it. Cover with something like a pie pan, let sit 24 hours and vacuum up ( the salt should be yellow). Spray with vinegar, soak up extra with towel, let dry, repeat two or three times. IT WORKS! Spray Febreeze to eliminate vinegar smell. It will go away after a few days. (01/08/2009)
By Al
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Glad I found this site, given me some insight on how to get rid of pet odors in my carpet. I live in an old house and the carpet although it's still in good shape, I really can't afford to replace it just yet, so I tried the vinegar and water solution in a spray bottle and ta da, the odor almost immediately disappeared!
What a relief. I've read of so many different products to use and this one seems to have worked so far. I wanted to post to see if anyone has ever used the water and vinegar solution in a carpet shampooer? I figured if you can use it in a coffee maker to clean it out, what would be the harm to the shampooer. Will most likely try it in the a.m. and see if I can eliminate the odor in the whole carpet. (01/10/2009)
By Sam
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I tried Odorzout from Petsmart and it did not work. I used a shampoo formulated for per odor and that also did not work. Finally I used a 50/50 vinegar and water solution in my machine and it got the smell out. It took a few days for the smell you disappear. But it worked. I used 3 gallons of vinegar on 4 rooms. It smelled pretty weird in here for a while. But after it cleared, it was normal again! (01/12/2009)
By lucky1001
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I have 3 dogs and 1 cat. I was laying on the carpet in my hallway and smelled dog pee. I am going to try vinegar I hope it works. (01/24/2009)
By Christopher B.
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My roommates dog keeps having accidents on my carpet. I hate coming home to the smell of urine all the time. I used a steam cleaner with half water and and half laundry detergent. It got the stain out and covered the smell for a couple of days but eventually came back. I have read on here that a lot of you are using vinegar so I will give that a try and if not well I guess the dog will have to go. Wink, wink. (02/10/2009)
By Lisa
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My male cat loves to pee on my scatter rugs, bath mats, etc. I have poured vinegar directly on the spots and let it sit for 15-30 minutes. I then soaked the article in the washing machine and then proceeded to wash. Have put the article outside to dry. When dried, I could still smell the spot where the cat has peed - NOW WHAT? If I put this article back down on the floor, he will smell it and repeat the peeing process. Have had to remove all scatter rugs/mats but when company comes and need to put them down, I'm in big trouble. (02/24/2009)
By Kay
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I found a great product to remove pet odors it is called Whiff Whacker and I found it at www.thevetsource.com I first used it to remove the smell of cat from my garage. After I had pressure washed the garage it still smelled like cat I sprayed this stuff on it and came back two hours later to a smell free garage. It is all natural and it works great inside the house too I also used it on the spare bedroom rug after a female Dalmatian made messes on the rug. Now I use this stuff all over. (03/11/2009)
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Archived on 10/23/2008
I am going insane with the odor in my house. Vinegar doesn't work and I clean my carpets with a carpet cleaner using Tide in it and nothing seems to be doing anything. When I moved in to my condo, my partner had not trained her dog and she constantly peed in our house on our dark carpeting. I'm not worried about any spots being seen, it's a dark carpet, but even with cleaning EVERY SPOT we managed to find, my house still stinks.
I don't know what to do anymore, I can't stand it. I've put down baking soda for hours and then vacuumed it up, used odor removers, tons of Febreeze and I don't know what to do next. I can't really afford a specialist at this point, more really because she's still not 100% house broken and I'd be afraid to spend hundreds of dollars only to have to do it again in less than a month. Basically, I'm thinking I'm going to have to remove the carpet, put down new padding but I don't even know how to do that. I need help please. I'm desperate here.
If I end up having to put down new padding, is it expensive? Easy to do? Are there any other methods to remove the odors? The carpets are dark red. I'm trying to stay away from chemicals but if it comes down to it, I can kennel the dogs over night and clean it up that way. Help! Thank you in advance.
Trisha from DC
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I had a problem with my cats when we moved into a new place. I tried a lot of stuff (don't mess with anything at the pet stores, they don't work). I finally found a product online at www.justrite.com which is an enzyme cleaner that you soak the carpet with and it pulls the odor and bacteria from underneath the carpet. It really worked, and since the odors were gone, the cats went back to using their litter boxes and have ever since (over a year now). It was a lot cheaper than new carpeting or padding. (06/27/2008)
By Linda
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I cleaned some pet stains up with oxy-clean. Now, 3 years later, the spots are now a shade lighter than the rest of my carpet. (06/28/2008)
By falldowngobump
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My friend (a professional carpet cleaner) recommended NATURES REMEDY when I was house training my pup and he had a few accidents. He told me to shake the bottle well, then squeeze it deep into the carpet so it goes clear through to the liner. Let dry and the odor and stain is gone. NATURES REMEDY has enzymes to get rid of the problem. You can find it at any pet store. I have used it and it works. (06/29/2008)
By soochatty
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Woolite oxy pet stain was the best until we found Nature Clean. In southern Ontario we find it in the organic food section of Fortinos. It's clear in a clear bottle with green & red labeling more or less. It's around $7.99 and easy to use. We dry towel up the most we can by stepping on the towel, then follow with Nature Clean. Spray on/walk away. It's unbelievable. Puts all other products with dual chambers & such to shame. (07/23/2008)
By Brad
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I work at a small Co-Op in Sault Ste Marie (Shaw Milling LTD.) and I have sold a product named Odor-Mute to people with similar problems. Each person that has come back has told me it worked WONDERS. In fact I'm renting a place now with carpeting in the living room which is giving me much the same problem and just realized that maybe I ought to give it a go. It's an enzyme based product as well so I highly doubt any staining. (07/26/2008)
By A. Mahlman
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After having a problem with one of my cats, I tried numerous things and was at my wits end. I finally tried the following solution and have had the best results so far:
Mix together 3/4 cup hydrogen peroxide and 1 teaspoon dish detergent. Sprinkle baking soda over area and drizzle some of the peroxide solution over baking soda and massage into carpet. Let dry completely before vacuuming.
Keep a spray bottle of white vinegar handy, and if you see your pet even looking at the area, give him/her a little spray (not in the eyes), and eventually he/she will get the message. Good luck. (07/30/2008)
By nancy
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The best thing I have found is ODO BAN. You can buy this at Sam's Club by the gallon and it's a concentrate so it makes a lot of cleaner. It is about 10.00 for the gallon and you also get a spray bottle of ODO BAN. You may
have to go over the area more than once but it works. I put mine in my carpet cleaner. Hope this helps. (09/07/2008)
By Kristen
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Best thing I've found is a product my carpet cleaner uses. It's called "Gets the Smell Out", you can order it at . He says he used to buy it under another label but it was only available to professional cleaners, so he convinced the manufacturer to let him market it to homeowners under another name. It's not prohibitively expensive, so you might want to give it a try. (09/23/2008)
By Eileen
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A carpet cleaning guy told me to mix ammonia and hydrogen peroxide half and half. It worked so good, but it is overwhelming in smell at first! This is the only thing that worked. Oh yeah, sprinkle salt on it first and leave for 10-20 minutes. (09/23/2008)
By Tricia
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I have a girl who is 14 yrs. and she is a wonderful girl but the other 2 babies try to attack her in the box so she is afraid of going to the bathroom in the box. I put a pee pad for puppies on top of a plastic garbage bag in a hidden corner and she always uses that but when I tried to clean where she was originally going it took many tries until I found a product called Urine Gone. It really worked and I tried all the major ones like Nature's Miracle, which is no miracle, it may have been water for all the help it was and I believe in the Urine Gone. Other than that I have no answers. It has been a while also and the smell has not come back. I did use a lot and then would let it dry, then vacuum, then do it again. (09/24/2008)
By Lori
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I use glass cleaner. It works good to get up stains. (09/24/2008)
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How do I get the smell of pet urine out of the carpet? The whole room smells. I've had a shitzu for about 3 months. She is house trained. I stopped putting her in a crate because I am gone for most of the day. She wasn't' peeing in the house, so I decided to leave her in my daughters room. Now she has started to pee at the door, and other places in her room. I have cleaned it up but it smells bad. I don't know what to do. I don't' want to crate her for too long, but I can not continue to let her pee. The room smells horrible. Any suggestions?
Delilah from TX
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It won't be easy. For very stubborn stains, you'll need to buy a carpet machine. Soak the spots with an enzyme-type urine neutralizer such as Zep. Let sit for a day at least. Then using the carpet cleaner, wash with a 50-50 mix of vinegar and water. Soak it well. Then wash with a 9:1 mix of water and bleach. Then rinse with a powerful deodorizer mixed with water. Let dry. If the smell is still there, do it all over again. One step eats much of the urine, the next neutralises the PH level, the next kills bacteria and the last freshens. Don't be afraid to soak it well. Just make sure you extract as well as is possible. (06/04/2008)
By Brend
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Soak it with white vinegar. Vinegar smell will be around for a week, then febreeze it for like a week. Gone. (06/24/2008)
By Anna
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Archived on 05/17/2008
Hello to all you wonderful people out there I need your help. My dog decided to go pee pee where I couldn't see her and of course she left a yellow stain on my new beige rug and of course it also smells of urine. I've tried most of the store bought items like resolve to get the stain out but to no avail the stain still sits there yellow and smelly. help can anyone give me suggests on how to get this stain and smell out of my carpet. :-(
Adele from Belford, New Jersey
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I have had good results with a mixture of 2 tablespoons of 20 mule-team borax and a tablespoon of oxy-type stain remover. mix with hot water and then put into a spray bottle and use as needed. The borax takes out the urine smell and the Oxy gets the stain. (07/16/2007)
By Jewel
Urine smell in our rented home
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My husband, myself and our two children just sold our home, and have decided to rent for a while. This lady is a nightmare that rented the house to us. Apparently, the previous owner, and probably previous owners before that, had pets. Cats, dogs, who knows. I can't rip out the carpet, and I'm sure that the urine is in the carpet, pad, and floor boards. We didn't notice the smell until we cleaned them ourselves - and now... wow! To make matters worse, we have pets of our own. They were perfectly potty trained, but now they smell the odors. I've tried vinegar, carpet sprays, professional steam cleaning. I can't find the exact spot either. It's like the animals previously peed everywhere. I have air fresheners in the house, but they are only temporary fixes, and give us all headaches. This is awful. Oxi Clean is a bad idea though. We did this to our old house. We thought it was great, but when we steamed cleaned when we moved out - the spots we treated were discolored. Please help us!
(b)Editor's Note:(/b) A black light will help you find the spots that are "dirty". (07/29/2007)
By Jme
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We inherited my father's house, and his senile wife had cats (no cat box) and dogs inside as well as an occasional rabbit. The wall to wall carpeting was in good shape prior to them moving in, but went south in a hurry! When we got it, I bought a Rug Doctor steam cleaner on e-bay, because I knew it would get a work out. Since entire rooms were polluted, we chose the worst and started in. I wet vacuumed the worst spots using the nose to find them. We had a black light and it showed urine everywhere. Commercial cleaners will do nothing as they hit it only once (been there, done that twice!). I hit the bad spots repeatedly for about a 6 week period, until the waste water came out almost clear. I soaked the carpet clear down to the floor boards and then sucked it up REPEATEDLY. I used about 500 gallons of fresh hot water on one room. When I was done, some smell remained, so while the carpets were still wet, I mixed 1 gallon Petzyme (cheapest enzyme available at Petsmart) with 4 gallons water and saturated an area until it "squished" under foot. Leave it like that for 12 hours or more so the enzyme can work. Then wet vacuumed with clean water, let dry. Vacuum. Sprinkle with baking soda based odor control powder; let it remain for a day, and then vacuum again. Now they don't smell like urine anymore! (08/10/2007)
By Ray K.
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Use vinegar by itself and poor it on your rug. The rug and or house will smell for a day or two but the smell of urine goes away! Do not be afraid to use a lot. Also i do not know if this works on wool rugs. (09/13/2007)
By brielle
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My son who is 2years old has to run away and pee on the carpet and I found that 1/4 part regular white vinegar and 1 part water is good enough to remove the smell completely.
1. Make the mixture enough to fully cover the area
2. Fully soak the area to cover the pee area with the solution or rub it in for a couple minutes
3. Pat or rub dry with a towel.
Your spot will smell of vinegar for about 1/2 hr after but after its dried its like it never happened!
(10/15/2007)
By Jwala
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My husband and I have been working on a spot in our carpet and a corner on our couch for the last few weeks that our dog has pissed on! We have rented a carpet cleaner and went over the spot several times within a two day period, still smell the urine. I have used vinegar and water several times, still smell the urine! I have purchased multiple brands of pet odor removers, still smell the urine. We are so aggravated and at our wits end! We have tried almost everything I read about on the internet....nothing works! Not even the stuff that guarantees your money back if it does not work(good luck getting your money back!) NOTHING WORKS! You will be my hero if you can give me a working solutions that does not include throwing out my new couch or ripping up the near new carpet! HELP!
Sincerely Frustrated,
Jenn B (11/24/2007)
By Jennifer Belczak
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Dear all frustrated people. I have been cleaning carpet for over 9 years now. Urine is very tricky. Dog urine is different that cat urine. For the lady with the couch, you are treating and retreating the outside of the couch. Don't forget there is fabric on the inside that you are not able to treat. Typically vinegar is suggested remedy because it is of a low ph. If you get the stain fresh (Good luck with that) then it should do the trick. Please throw away all resolve cleaners, it will cost you more in the long run. Oxy clean usually is only safe on Olephan (or plastic carpet) Ive heard recently that natures miracle with citrus oxy clean works. My client swears by it and I don't smell anything when I clean her past effected areas. Use at your own risk though. I hope this helped. Please remember that anything you put down chemical wise you must neutralize it. This is why when you clean a stain it goes away but then the stain comes back faster, you are leaving a residue that attracts dirt. Any questions feel free to contact my email Wres4life43 AT hotmail.com make sure you reference carpet. Good luck to all. (12/27/2007)
By Ray
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I just used a vinegar/water, hydrogen peroxide/dish soap solution I found online, with baking soda on 2 dog urine spots on my brand new berber carpet. Brain surgeon me did not test a small spot first, and my carpet looks bleached out! I think I am going to throw up seeing my carpet is only 5 or 6 months old. And if thats not bad enough, the spots are right in my formal as you come in my front door! There is now way you could miss them! Guess I really screwed up this time! (01/27/2008)
By Kristie
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First Lesson:neutralize then clean. Vinegar has become a staple shelf product in my house. Goodbye Bleach, Hello Vinegar! When I was preparing to move in I thought I could wipe EVERYTHING down with a mild bleach and water solution. That's when I learned the neutralize first trick. Cleaners mask but don't remove scent. So it began with a mixture of white vinegar and water in a spray bottle (50/50). It got better, only on still or rainy days or if the windows had to be closed there was a slight scent lingering. Big guns came out, went to straight white vinegar in the spray bottle. Gone! Goodbye bleach, hello vinegar.
My husband and I bought a house from an estate sale. The house was un-occupied for three winters in NE that I know of and the previous owners were a couple who tended to Ferrel cats. After he was taken out, the estate didn't know how long, how many or how they accessed the run of the house, perhaps through a cellar window. Even after the estate removed the obviously damaged furniture, and anything of value from 1920 era house, the walls showed spots of the animals. It took me nearly two years to rid the house of the scent completely. (03/30/2008)
By CJ
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Help! I had a couple of spots show up on the carpet where our elderly beagle must have peed and then it dried. Nature's Miracle works when I find the wet spot. I soaked the spots with NM and let them dry. Then I rented a Rug Doctor to steam clean using just water. Now it smells worse than before -- there must have been another stain I didn't know about. I've spread the smell over a larger area with the carpet cleaner - ugh. Any suggestions? Vinegar in the carpet cleaner? (04/20/2008)
By Kathy
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I am a pro at urine removal. Most of the things on the internet sites are wrong. The vinegar myth is one of the biggest myths. Vinegar only lowers the ph of the urine, not remove the odor. Bleach or hydrogen peroxide will bleach out most carpets to the point most have to be repaired or dyed to remove the white spots. Urine odor is mostly a complex chemical odor that has a high ph level. That does not mean a home owner can't remove it sometimes. However try this method: if it doesn't work, call a pro and have it removed.
Treat the area with vinegar and water mix 50-50 mix. Blot the area to remove most of the liquid, then apply simple solution odor eliminator,mfg by brampton, available in most pet stores, Walmart, Target, Kmart, pet departments, etc. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON THE BOTTLE. Repeat these steps if the odor returns. (05/05/2008)
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I have pet stains on my carpet. What will clean stains and kill urine odor?
Joaquin
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Oxy Clean with your steam cleaner will do the trick. I have cats and have had them urinate on the carpet when they were sick. Oxy Clean gets the smell out and removed stains as well. I love the stuff! It is the best!
By Molissa
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Hello I worked in a professional carpet cleaning supply store for the past six years and am a certified carpet cleaner.
Please do not ever use oxi clean on your carpet, Oxi Clean is what is know as an oxidizer what it will do is strip your carpet of its color. You may think it is working just great, looks good, until you have your carpets cleaned then you will notice irreversible damage there will be spots where the product is used that will appear lighter and have a greenish tint. This cannot be changed. If you want to use this product you must use it on the entire surface equally as not to notice the lightening.
Next onto the subject of the urine smell, the only product I recommend is a professional product made by a company called Pro's Choice. They have a website at www.proschoice.com that goes into great detail for professionals on how to get rid of urine. The product that I would use is called OSR it will remove the odor and stain. They have a product called Urine Stain Remover that is absolutly the professionals dream urine stain remover. You just apply after cleaning and it will make the stains disappear. Truely a blessing.
Hope this helps, you can buy these products online just do some research.
By Ann29
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Sorry I forgot to mention, as far as enzyme cleaners for urine go the one to buy is made by Big D Industries and is called Enzyme D. You can buy this at www.bettymills.com This is the most economical and is what the professionals use. Don't waste your money on the ones that the pet stores sell or grocery stores. This is a concentrate and will last you forever.
By Ann29
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To clean up pet urine:
- Start by first cleaning the area with a Vinegar-Water solution: Use 2 -3 parts water mixed with 1 part Vinegar. (It's easiest to put this mixture in a well marked spray bottle). Clean and Blot, with a white towel or white rag.
- Buy "OUT!" (this is the most important step) brand pet odor neutralizer at Walmart, it works by "eating" any organic stain or odor by using "good bacteria and enzymes" it cost only $4.79. The main trick is to keep the "OUT!" wet so the good bacteria stay "alive" by covering the area with plastic wrap or an unused plastic garbage bag. Do NOT blow dry area as this will kill the good bacteria that "eat" the stain and smell. "Out" smells like yummy vanilla, which is nice.
- The second day: Repeat the application of the "OUT" product.
- The third day: Pour plain old drugstore hydrogen peroxide on the area and let it fizz and bubble up anything that's left. Do this and I can bet your pet urine smell will disappear!
*** A side note: NEVER use Ammonia to clean up Cat or Dog urine! Because Cats adn Dogs will be attracted right back to that same spot to go again, since all urine is so strong in ammonia, this "fools the pets nose".
Be careful to pre-test the carpet in a discreet area before using the Hydrogen Peroxide, just to make sure the carpet won't fade. (I've use peroxide many, many times to clean spots on my carpet and upholstery and it's never hurt my carpet, upholstery or any clothing fabric.
Peroxide works to remove ANY organic stain (that means it will remove grape juice which is natural, but not grape Jell-O or grape kool-aid which is artificial, anyway, you get the idea.) Peroxide will also remove Blood, Coffee, and Hot Chocolate! Peroxide is a totally amazing stain remover! It works by using Oxygen to "fizz out" the stain, simple, but effective!
Do NOT use the stronger peroxide that women bleach their hair with. Use the cheap 59 cent peroxide that is sold in grocery and drug store's "first-aid" aisles.
Above is how I got rid of that nasty cat pee smell on our carpet, but this works just as well for dog urine.
By Cyinda
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I just want to say that i recently used a mixture of ammonia and oxy clean and although it did get rid of the "urine" smell, it left a funky sort of musky smell. Any answers?
Editor's Note: Leave out the ammonia. It just makes the animal want to use that place again. Pet urine contains ammonia. Try it just with the oxiclean.
By Nikki
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Archived on 10/28/2006
How do I remove dog urine smell from carpet. My 13 year old lab has had a few accidents. I use a carpet cleaner, but the smell is still there. Thank you!
Maria from Sterling Heights, MI
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RE: Removing Pet Urine Smell From Carpet
What I use is baking soda, sprinkle on carpet, leave overnight, then vacuum. It might take a few goes, but it does work. We are looking after a baby lamb inside with our 14 year old maltese. (08/23/2006)
By nimwe
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I owe you folks my LIFE!
I moved into an apartment that is fully carpeted and had been inhabited by a "bunch of guys" and who knows what animals. When I steam cleaned the carpet it pulled up intense old urine odor in the living room and bedroom. A friend gave me some of a commercial concentrate that she swears by. Oh dear... the odor got worse. I was desperate, no only because I could not bear to come home to the odor, but my cats would soon start adding their contributions if I didn't solve the problem.
I found this site via google. I have soaked everything in cidar vinegar and the odor went mostly away immediately. Just to be sure, I sprinkled arm and hammer powder when the carpet was dry and vacuumed after an hour or so. So far so good. If something shows up again in a day or a week I can always try borax and other suggestions. (09/10/2006)
By choosenow
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My house had 6 cats and 2 dogs previously living in it. I have already ripped out the carpet and pads and I applied enzymes to eat the urine (WARNING: Don't use any cleaners! The enzymes won't work if you attempt to clean the urine!). Unfortunately, we tried cleaning with bleach before using the enzymes so they didn't work as well. I'm waiting for the enzymes to dry then I will pressure wash the floors. After the water dries again, I will put 3 coats of a shellac primer down to seal the smell. I will never have any pets or even any carpets in my house for the rest of my life. (09/29/2006)
By Mark
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