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I second this!!! That would be VERY helpful! Although I’m wondering if putting an enzyme cleaner in a carpet shampooer, would the heat from the machine keep the enzymes from working full strength?
@@dippo_13i just got it, and am trying. its hard to do cuz urine must be dry to fluoresce. so far oxy cleaners and resolve work faster the first time, but smell may come through on humid or hot days. Enzyme *will* take longer. but theoretically should be more thorough and last longer. just remember no boiling water, chlorinated stuff or disinfectants after the enzyme or you destroy the enzymes
You should get a UV flashlight and check for stains after the cleaning. I recently got one and was shocked at the stains on my seemingly immaculate carpet.
I've had the best luck with Arm an Hammer's pet stain and odor carpet cleaner. Not sure whether the old UV stains in my rental are pee, vomit, or any other fluids that shine under blacklight though, I've heard pee notoriously leaves behind crystals that embed in the carpet fibers
Sir, my wife has been ripping her hair out trying to solve this car urine situation at our house. I think you just gave us the solution. Thanks for the video!
You missed the important part, how did it do on the smell? I can get the stains out NP but getting rid of the residual smell is the big issue. Did you use carpet padding? Because once the pee gets down to the padding, and it will, a few squirts of cleaner isn't going to reach it. Interesting test and it cheers me up that you came to pretty much the same conclusion I did after a few years of experimenting thanks to an incontinent dog. Resolve spray then carpet cleaner for best results.
I agree with you. I've used that Resolve cleaner and, while it does get the urine stain up, the smell comes back within a week. What finally worked to get rid of the smell was essentially the process he recommended for cleaning up the urine stain with a carpet cleaner but I used the Nature product in the red bottle instead (and liberally) along with the Bissell pro carpet solution.
Probably your most useful review for me! Using coyote urine wass great setup. Thanks for clarifying this oversaturated market, I've spent way too long reading bottles in store trying to decide which of this was gonna work best for my new puppies accidents. I'm definitely incorporating all your useful tips from this vid
Regarding the smell. I didn’t test this because I could think of no logical way to fairly measure it. I do know that there was no noticeable smell in the room after treatment, when there definitely was before treatment. I asked my assistant to smell each spot and see what he could discover, but he declined.
See this is actually a really important component of the test missing. If there is any residual smell a dog will repeat that behavior. Believe me from experience, even the best carpet cleaner could still leave behind residual smell. As far as I’ve noticed enzymatic cleaner’s are best at removing the smell and preventing future spotting by dogs. Maybe bring in a dog and see if he peas all over the carpet Hah Hah
@@ranikaj92 Yes, this is true. Also cat pee is worse because of the higher percentage of protein. The enzymatic cleaners are better at breaking down the proteins. Edit: when I use an enzymatic cleaner, I wet the area thoroughly and then leave a plastic bag, usually a trash bag, over the top of it to keep it wet, and let it sit for 24 hours. Far different from the process used here. Using the enzymatic cleaner in this way, then going over it again with the oxy cleaner, blotting it up, and then going over it again with a steam cleaner might be the ultimate way to remove a stubborn pet stain.
The smell test is a HUGE must! (Maybe next time kindly ask a woman friend to help because we're a lil more inclined to smell weird things than men are. Lol) I swear tho that anything that's labeled for "pet urine" automatically makes the spot smell 10xs worse, not better. Even if the pee stain didn't smell all that bad before, after cleaning it with pet urine remover it smells awful! I actually came here looking for a good cleaner, which I'll totally try the resolve you mentioned, but how it smells afterwards is a huge factor for most people. Honestly, I've just been kinda using a wet rag soaked with dawn dish liquid when my cat pees, ugh, and that seems to have better smelling results than the bottle of bissell pet urine pro something or other we have. That stuff straight up smells like perfumed piss in a bottle! Lol Ugh, it's so bad!
Do you have any tips for deodorizing the spot cleaner machines? After purchasing one based on your reviews, I love it, but after months of cleaning, the thing stinks to high heaven. Washing/sterilizing the wastewater bin doesn't have the desired effect.
I don’t think I’ve ever loved a man as much as I love you right now lol you have answered so many prayers for me! Having kittens can be messy! Thank you for putting so much time/attention to detail/resources into your videos! 💜
The best cleaner is water and vinegar it takes even old pet stains out in seconds! and the smell dissipates within a few hours. But by far the easiest way to get rid of a stain over all types of cleaners I’ve tried
This couldn't have come at a better time! I'm cleaning my carpets this weekend and my biggest concern is handling the cat urine. Glad to see these results! Did you notice anything in regards to smell?
Good video. As a "pet person" with carpet, I have had lots of experience with stains. I find using a high-powered wet/dry vac to suck out the urine and dampness after cleaning to be very effective. I got the idea by watching a professional carpet cleaner clean my carpet. And like Chris mentions, being careful not to spread around the stain when sucking it out. I'd also add that there is no substitute for an occasional visit by a good professional carpet cleaning company. And a pet-resistant underlayment also helps. Coyote urine is worse than cat urine? Ick!!
When it comes to damaging the carpet colour. It depends mostly on what type of carpet it is. If you have a solution dyed nylon carpet you should be safe to use whatever without damaging the carpet colour
Agree100%. Resolve Carpet & Rug has been what works the best for me for my 2 pit bulls and toothless orange tabby cat. But when nothing else works cheap vodka has never let me down. (For carpet stains I mean. LOL)
My main concern is getting rid of the ammonia smell all over my apartment. There are no visible stains anywhere (at least none that show through my sand-colored carpet.)
Yes! I clean carpet as well. Better off with peroxide n water! Also it still glows under black light even when cleaned! Resolve is a no no in professional world! Need water clawed if it’s bad enough.
I am in search of a good urine remover and throught to myself, "I wish someone tested and compared the different brands like vacuum wars reviews vacuum cleaners" and boom, now I"m here. Love yout channel!
Personally the best way is to over saturate the urine ( about 1.5 to 2 times the amount of urine) and let it air dry.. this will get 98% of the smell and sticky urine substance... You can't really get rid of it 100% because to do that you have to pull up the carpet and treat the subfloor, pad and carpet ... If you want to carpet clean after the enzyme cleaner dries you can.. just you never want to carpet clean an old stain ( had time to dry) because the carpet cleaner will simply spread the urine around... You need the enzyme cleaner.. but if you do not mind the smell of vinegar for about 4 days maybe a week it will destroy the urine smell at a fraction of the price
The timing on this… actual text from my spouse after he cleaned up something our cat barfed up earlier: “Either resolve is god tier or this was relatively wet still”
Big problem with resolve though. It may be the best in these tests. But it leaves TONS of residue. There is so much foam and soap left in the carpet after using resolve. I found Bissell works almost as well but leaves far less residue.
If you do use an iron make sure it is not too hot and be careful not to burn or melt the carpet fibers. That is because you will have a spot there that is a lot more obvious than a smelly yellow spot. If the fibers melt there may be a noticeable spot where the carpet texture does not feel the same. Also I would consider using an iron to be an "advanced" step. If you know someone who has a steamer you may want to see if you can borrow that first. With a steamer you won't run the risk of applying 450°F or more to the carpet.
Okay but what about smell? That's the important part. Please do a video for best carpet machine solutions for pet urine. I used Bissell Urine Eliminator with my Pet Pro 2X on decade-old cat pee and it did a good job after several applications.
Considering the urine stains, yes you can remove most of them but unfortunately the main issue is in the pad which carpet that has become heavily or moderately saturated over time will need to be replaced. There is absolutely nothing you can do unless you want to use a product like decon 100 or 200 or a scent stop offered by Mohawk which can remove the smell. Most these products are commercial but can be purchased online.
I've been online searching for the Mohawk Scent Stop and can't find it anywhere. I've called all over even to Mohawk and no one knows or has anything. If you have a link, can you share?
I can smell this video from over the pond. I hold you up there with Project Farm for the dedication to your science, very interesting to see the chemicals at work.
Same advice my Granny gave me years & years ago when I asked her about other carpet stain removal (non-urine). Back then I thought to myself that surely she was wrong, Silly me,,,I failed to take into account the woman always had white carpet in @ least 1 room of her home and had a dozen grandchildren in her home & then the great-grandchildren too. In a relatively short timeframe afterwards, I discovered she was correct but unfortunately not before she passed from this life.
Not all heroes wear capes! I will say for pet stains I don't recommend heat because it embeds the smell and even if you can't smell it, your pet will and will potentially keep marking that spot after, even with enzyme cleaners. Pushed me over the edge to buy a carpet cleaner though and not have to spend too much, if it works on pet stains it'll work on just my regular ol' dirt and I'll have it on hand if my dog creates an emergency cleaning situation lol.
At 0:23 it looks like Bissell Pet and Bissell Pro (when following the directions of spraying and blotting) deliver equally good results as the Resolve spray. Plus - Bissell Pet Pro also says it helps to remove odor. Can you comment on this?
Very interesting video. As carpet cleaners, we typically don't recommend many of these cleaners (especially Resolve) because they tend to leave a residue...it's hard to test for that, but if you don't fully extract it out, it will look worse over time. From experience, Resolve is one of the most difficult to get out of the carpet. Also, somehow our customers always bleach out their carpet using it, so I'm not sure what they are doing differently -lol. I'm also curious to know if any of the spots came back after they dried, as there was a lot of urine, product, and water used. As others pointed out, there are several factors involved when cleaning urine (carpet padding, smell, what kind of carpet you have, technique) so it is pretty hard to test for every scenario, but I still give you props for making the video!
There aren't any pro cleaners in my little town but I can order shampoos and sprays from Amazon. Any ideas on what works best for dog urine SMELL?my carpet looks clean but.. well you can guess the rest.
@@milkweedsage I'm going to toot our own horn here so my apologies lol but we actually get this question a lot and there's not a lot of products out there we could recommend for consumer use, so we ended up creating our own called "Stain Fu". We have the link on our RU-vid page if you wanted to check it out :). On our Stain Fu RU-vid channel we have videos on there on how to get rid of the smell as well. In many cases, urine ends up getting into the carpet padding and possibly subfloor, so the key is to find the source, and apply enough product to address the source. Depending on how much urine there is (usually about 20% or more of the total area), the pad might have to be replaced since it's essentially like a giant sponge and would be difficult to get it all out, even for a professional. Hopefully that helps!
@@milkweedsage don't use someone's homemade concoction, just get an enzyme cleaner with good reviews and follow the directions. Bissell Urine Eliminator, Resolve Urine Destroyer, Clorox Urine Remover are all good industrial products. Simple Green Cat Urine is a safe enzyme cleaner with a wonderful scent, just do a rinse cycle with it in the machine and leave the carpet damp to let the enzymes do their thing. I've had good results on decade-old cat pee. Residue isn't a problem, just do a normal rinse cycle with some vinegar a few days after a major clean.
maybe your customers are using too warm water. I made this mistake, thinking it would help rinse out product better, but ended up bleaching the stripes out of the area i was trying to fix 🤦🏻
Thank you so much for this video! I have a puppy and a senior dog and I use enzymatic cleaners most of the time. I have one question: when you did your test, did you have any carpet padding underneath? My experience with urine stains was it got the carpet clean but the padding was not. I started pouring my cleaner on the stain with the hopes it would saturate the padding as well then i would go over it with my machine. I found this method to be most helpful in keeping the dog from returning to that spot. It also taught me to tighten-up on my potty training skills as well!
I agree! I would do the same by pouring it on the carpet, letting it sit, then cleaning with a towel and standing on it or with something heavy on it. I never had problems with actual stains. It easy always the smell.
Nature's Miracle worked wonders for lingering dog urine scent that none of the Bissell cleaners (including the Oxy Urine Eliminator) could eliminate. I actually poured the entire 32-oz bottle on the area and let it dry over 2-3 days. No blotting or anything - there was no stain, only odor. Now I smell only the scent of Nature's Miracle, it's slowly fading over time. To me, that's a win.
I look after dogs,had a dog pee on my sofa the smell was terrible no matter how much i cleaned it,i bought natures miracle,poured it all over the seating had to let it air dry for days,got the smell out and saved me having to buy a new sofa.
SMELL, ODOR, STINK!!! That is what people want answered! Next vid use carpet padding and plywood like all carpeted houses have!!!!!!! Old stains I saturate with straight white vinegar and let it dry. Sometimes I'll blot the vinegar after a 2 days. Works for cat pee every time.
4:10 I professionally clean carpet. Let me tell you right now if you put resolve in your carpet and then clean that same area again with anything that says oxi on it you're going to bleach it immediately. It doesn't matter how harsh the chemical is most things aren't going to ruin your carpet by itself it's the mixture of chemicals. And resolve is one of the ones that has the most harsh chemicals where you basically can't mix it with hardly anything or it bleaches. You essentially can only use it with enzyme products and even then it will still bleach on occasion. Did I also mention that resolve has a s*** ton of optical brightness in it so when it bleaches your carpet it'll just appear to have a soapy residue look. Most of the time you can't even tell it's been bleached until you fully remove the product through extraction.
I would be interested to know how the spots smell after cleaning and if the spots get dirty quicker after cleaning because of the "stickiness" of the cleaner being left on the carpet.
Oh my god I forgot you had those skin like colored gloves on and at 1:15 i really thought you just went for it bare😂 First video I’ve seen from your channel but it’s very informative. Definitely subscribing and seeing what else you’ve tested! I appreciate it so much, I really do!
I know this is a little late but, If I were to use Resolve and put Baking Soda with it. Would that work? I am asking with baking soda because I know baking soda does kill odor and wondering if this could be a extra step I can take? I normally use baking soda when my cat goes on the carpet as you can just sweep up some of it and then vacuum the rest but the stain is still there but the odor really isn't.
The main issue I see with this is that none of these cleaners are the kind that work on the smell for animal detection. Brands like natures miracle really should’ve been included in this test which are the ones that are designed to stop animals from detecting the smell and urinating in the same spot. Really would’ve liked to see the brands sold in pet stores rather than the ones chosen here.
I agree on this. Resolve spray, followed by a few passes from the carpet shampoo vacuum, took care of vomit for us. You can't even tell anything happened. I will always have resolve on hand. I used resolved, but couldn't shampoo until 2 days later because I needed a new one. Even after 2 days, the fact that I used Resolve initially helped tremendously!
I kept trying to figure out how the Coyote urine- as a cleaner - wasn’t going to make things worse. My hearing (and comprehension) isn’t what it used to be.
I've used the Resolve carpet cleaner Urine Destroyer, and it works wonderfully to remove stains. I use a wet/dry vac instead of "blotting" with a cloth.
The thing with urine is that if you worked it like you did the urine will just get deeper in the fibers, that formula is design to pull up the urine without working the formula
Omg!!! THANK YOU! This is the only and best review I seen for urine cleaners... didn't want diy... just a good working product to buy. And on top of that... I'm ordering the carpet cleaner and it's currently on sale on Amazon...
Your pick IS a great product. Specifically for dog urine I've settled on 'Out! Pet Care Urine Destroyer.' And although I followed up with my Kalorik vacuum (dry) then wet vac after going back & adding fresh water (instructions). This vacuum can be used for wet or dry clean up. The filtration system is water in the canister.
Something I have found to be even better are professional car detailing products, though the same can probably be said for professional carpet and floor cleaning products.
THANK YOU! Talk about options paralysis, I couldn't figure out what to do and didn't want to have to go through the cleaning process several more times. I had a runner rug rolled up and I was watching my friends dog, it peed on it twice without me noticing so it's full of urine odor and it's rolled up in my garage right now. I got it from an estate sale and it's an amazing rug that would be worth hundreds of dollars to replace so I'm loath to throw it away but I tried to wash it out once with basic shampoo and that DIDN'T WORK! Thank you for some hope.
I think most bottled animal urine is terribly smelling and dark because it is old and starts to break down. I’ve noticed the same thing with dog urine that in my pet vac capsule that has sat for some time
Gotta agree with everyone regarding the smell. What works best on the smell? And could you test these under a black light (must be fully dried.) I'd love to know anything that would remove a cat urine stain from detection under black light. Thanks for the video and I'm eagerly awaiting the followup.
Hi VW, thanks for the great video! I was wondering if there was a place to see a list of how everything else did? We don't have Resolve stuff in my country- but we have the Nature's Miracle etc. I am dealing with an older dog who is becoming incontinent and from what I can see on the results, it looks like the Bissell stuff is the next next thing to Resolve? I plan to do the spray, gently agitate, blot, then hit it with the Bissell Little Green I have.
What about puke? Hear me out. My cat doesn't pee anywhere, but he will hork up half a can of wet food onto the carpet. Often found in the morning when I wake up. These stains are pretty stubborn, but also different than urine stains. A mix of stomach acid and whatever is in the cat food. They're pretty tough stains, and some of the most repeating for people with animals they barf
In my quest to find the perfect cleaner, I recall that it's bad to use heat. As far as organic stains (sweat, grass, blood, urine, food etc) heat 'bakes' in the stain/odor. Really the few people that should use hot water wash are mechanics or people treating an outbreak of some sort (fungus, lice, fleas, etc) as about half of dryers do not get hot enough to deal with these issues.
How did the oder side do? I've tried so many (some of the ones you had in the video, but not the resolve) and I still have the smell of cat urine from my ex roommate's cat.
We had a problem where even when the spot was "clean" to us the cat could still smell it and and continue scratching the carpet near that spot to "hide" the smell. Or even worse sometimes she'd end up peeing there again. Any chance we could have a video of your kitties doing some testing as well? 😂
You Sir are amazing!! Love all your videos!! I don't know if its far from your area of expertise, but if you could do one on humidifiers I would absolutely appreciate it!! I trust you.
Could you please redo the carpet cleaner solution with urine as well? Watched that video about 10 times now whenever I have to order more cleaner. If you could do separate swatches of carpet to then test the left over urine smell.
ODOR REVIEW AND STAIN REMOVER .. I recently used spray oxi , vinegar, odor ban lavender and or Dr bronners few drops for the sent . And it actually smelled amazing from the spray oxi . What I did was pour more oxi and vinegar I just poured tbh in my.cleaner.and at times a Lil Bissell w all that. But just the oxi , odor ban and vinegar worked amazing
Tell me that you have a sponsor, without telling me that you have a sponsor.... I remember when I used to come to this channel to find reviews that were authentic and not a result getting paid by a sponsor... Same with the shark vacuum reviews.. We all know they are crap but suddenly you are pushing them left and right.... Ever notice how many Shark vacuums are sitting out in front of someone's house on garbage day?? There's a good reason for that dude
