Urine odor
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| Spray the spots with a mix of 50% vinegar and 50% water. Let them dry. Then sprinkle baking soda on top and vacuum up. If it still smells, you can try some baking soda with peroxide (although peroxide takes the color out of some carpets). When that dries, vacuum it up. |
| Thank you, Carpet cleaning this weekend. Hope it works and she quits peeing on the carpet! |
| If the pee has gone through the carpeting, the stink may be from what's underneath. Nothing will clean from the top. If the carpeting is on a pad, phew! Cut out the questioned area leaving a flap attached to the rest of the carpet. You can clean the cut out section from the top and from the bottom; but also you can determine if the pad is the source of stink. Cut away offending pad completely, they don't clean. Now check the floor. Cleaning may be all that's needed or you might have to clean, dry and--if concrete, paint with a primer type paint.........argh, the name starts with a Z....?? You'd do same with plywood subfloor. I doubt you have a hardwood floor subgrade but there you actually have to replace the damaged strips. Now once clean and sweet smelling again, you'll need a pad patch.........maybe cut some from a closet or other nonvisible area. Double sided tape will hold it in place. Then flip the carpet flap back into position, also double sided tape or if you can sew the flap or glue the flap in place like a professional, do so. Voila! |
| I unfortunately have quite a bit of experience and knowledge on this topic! UGH! Susan hit the nail on the head. You have to get the spots out. You can't clean padding. You can clean carpet enough and soak through it to disperse cleaner through to the pad so that YOU don't smell the urine unless maybe it's a warm or damp day BUT your dog will always smell it and continue to mark if that is what she is doing. You may want to take a piece of your padding to a carpet store and get the match for your pieces, sounds like you may need more than may be available in a closet. I also suggest you sew as opposed to using glue as sometimes certain glues may attract her to urinate. I had the carpet fix it guy on speed dial because Skye would tear up the edge of the carpet from every door way of the room I kept her in. Tack strip, dry wall - you name it. She is the Australian Shepherd. Not crate able. AT ALL. She wasn't the in house pottier/marker but the carpet in that room and another was just abused so eventually had to be replaced. He and the carpet fix it guy were my close friends at this point (haha) were the ones who told me about the glue and the padding. Good luck to you! Maybe if you get all of the smell out she will start to wonder why she was going potty down there in the first place?! |
| Good to know about the glue, thanks.........hoping I never have to use the info. |
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