I cleaned carpets for over 25 years and you are honest. I use to have home owners ask if we could get the smell out and they never want to hear you need to trash the carpet, pad, tack and seal subfloor. They will always call someone else until it dawns on them that I was right.. lol
Carpets holds onto SO many odors, pet urine being one of the worst. I honestly don't know how some people can live with the smells that come from their carpets.
We did that in our old house, and for some reason in our new house thought our dogs would be better nope.. we had to replace what carpt there is twice, and we replaced quite a ew areas with vinyl planks. Having a dog that refuses to be potty trained is an expensive PITA.
According to the guy in the video, you have to purchase all new carpet. Three guesses what the guy in the video does for a living. I'll bet he doesn't clean carpets.
Renters who have pets - this is why some landlords say "No pets" - the cost is very high to throw out all the pad and carpet then hire a company to deep clean the flooring (concrete, etc) underneath. No pet-loving renter is willing to pay the landlord thou$ands of dollars to remove their pet's odors. And if you're a homeowner with pets and carpet, I dare you to look online, right now, at the cost per square foot of brand new carpet installation. *_I double dare you_* .
Me too. Mine is 17 now and she is wetting every where. I had a new lodger come today and he mentioned the smell. He said my home was lovely apart from the smell. I rent so I cant do a lot. I'm hoping the enzyme cleaner I've ordered will sort it. I've already replaced all carpets upstairs and banned her from going up there and replaced downstairs with vinyl. Her wee has found its way under the kitchen cupboard and small cracks. She is driving me nuts with the peeing. She misses almost all the pads I put on the floor.
Great information, great video. I have an area in my garage that's carpeted and my dog loves to go there. now I know why, carpet will get demoed soon. Thanks for the great info.
I only have one room in my home thats carpeted - the living room, which is a decent size at about 15x25. When i first bought this house and did some remodeling about 17 years ago - i removed the old carpet/padding to replace it all. Knowing i was going to have pets i painted the entire plywood subfloor to seal it, hoping to prvent anything from soaking into the subfloor in the future. I just had to put down my 2nd German Shepherd at 13.5 years old, who unfortunately came down with a UTI about 1.5 months ago and it took about a week to clear up. 5 years ago i bought myself a Bissel Big Green carpet shampooer which is essentially a big rental unit. Even after my dog not being able to get up for a few days, my beigh berber carpet has no odor or noticable stains. If youre gonna have pets, you need a good carpet cleaner and time is not your friend. My bissell was used almost every day to keep the carpet clean and remove any urine accidents as soon as possible, usually within minutes of anything i saw happening. Im SURE if i pulled up this rug id find some stains in the backing - but for now theres no stains, no ordor, nothing shows under a blacklight and thats good enough.
Dang I'm sorry to hear that... if you are still having problems though try Live Pee Free. They have kits that are able to help with the odor problem in carpets :) Here's a link, best of luck!
The exact reason I don’t want a pet. There cute but they can really stink up your home. There have only been a few homes I’ve gone to that I cannot smell animals if any live in the house.
Ugh I’m moving into a new rental and the bedrooms have carpet and the house smells a lot of dog (I have 2 cats). Luckily I can keep the doors closed to the bedrooms to avoid them from adding to the scent. The landlords had just replaced the carpets before the last tenant so they aren’t looking to replace them again anytime soon. They had the carpets steamed cleaned but I can still smell the oder and now I’m unsure on how to take on the deodorizing and cleaning myself.
I’m in an apartment so I can’t just rip up the carpet. I HIGHLY saturated the area with a mixture of hot water, Urine Destroyer pet cleaner, Gain detergent, White House brand lavender vinegar, and dawn dish soap. Think this will do anything? Should I suck it up after a little bit with my steam cleaner or let it sit? Like i just filled up two buckets of this shit and dumped it
Hi, even after I sprayed pet spot remover and shampooed the whole room it still has a horrible smell smell. And I still have dried blood in places. The carpet is only 3 months old. Can you help?
Hey man good video! I have a question though, I see videos on RU-vid of people using carpet freshener/baking soda to help with pet odors and then I see a handful of videos of people saying not to do it. The people that have been doing it though claim to not have any issues with their vaccuums afterwards but yet the people in the other videos are saying that it will ruin the vaccuum. I think Im leaning towards using it but would like to get a more professional opinion before I proceed.
I've been using baking soda & the scented baking soda carpet refreshers for 10+ years and I've never ruined a vacuum. As long as you clean out your vacuum"s filters and replace them about once a year or so, your vacuum will be fine. Just a tip- use a broom to work the baking soda down into the carpet and let it sit overnight or at least for a few hours before vacuuming it up.
Hello, we are on a concrete slab floor and will be getting wood floors in a few weeks. I currently have carpet and use natures miracle and a black light on accidents. I still at times smell urine and it drives me nuts and am very sure it's in the padding. There is no sub floor but what would you advise me to do after they take up carpet before laying new flooring? Should i black light the concrete and spray enzymes? Your help is much appreciated!
"I still at times smell urine and it drives me nuts and am very sure it's in the padding." get rid of the carpet and seal the concrete with epoxy. epoxy is the only thing that can truly kill the stink.
I have a spot in the off set (3x3) where my cats litter box was, unbeknownst to me her urine often missed and hit the wall and run down, but alas, its just that corner (3 x 3 off-set) and I saved some carpet AND I am a Carpet man by trade (well was/Retired) and so is my brother, so in that case I can save my carpet, I had cardboard under the spot, but it ran down the wall. Always get a litter box with a COVER, lol, lesson learned.
only thing that ever worked for me was bleach it down let it dry then apply a sealer to lock the odors under it. i have had rental owners sell their homes because they couldnt get the smell off basement floor.
So your solution in this case is to get rid of the carpet and get rid of the pad and then scrub the floor in preparation for new carpet and new pad, correct?
Having wood flooring is actually more expensive because before you lay wood floor their has to be a vapor barrier membrane due to protect moisture seeping from the foundation/subfloor.. Once you get urine on in the cracks of your food floor it's obviously going to go on the vapor padding and great moisture... Now you're looking at replacing wood flooring and vapor barrier 😂
What's really strange is how my neutered male cat would spray and pee on everything - mainly walls and furniture, anything at his "butt level" where he could back up against it, and yes it would trickle down into the carpet. Then I had new carpet installed 4 years ago, and literally from the very moment the install guys left, he NEVER had another incident like that again. Looking back I still wish I would have considered vinyl or wood flooring, but hey...it worked out! 🤪
I appreciate your advice but it was directed to homeowners. Who can just rip it all out and replace. What are renters supposed to do? We can't just tear it out and replace it. Please address this situation for renters. Thank you
Common sense is to either continuously clean it and spray air fresheners cause for bad cases there is no other way to remove the odor but to rip out the carpet
Ill never own another male cat again if our house has carpet.. he has destroyed our house. Our own bedroom wreaks so bad i wont even sleep in there anymore.
He's right... the very best way in a nightmare--really stinky urine, etc.... is to tear up the carpet & pad. I've used 1/2 bleach 1/2 water Then give a day or 2 to dry, maybe use fans and crack window a couple inches to get the humidity out, once dry use primer (preferably oil base) to seal up any remaining odor. Then put the new pad and carpet down. Another thing that idk was mentioned in this video is if you have cats... they sometimes will spray urine up the lower walls so there again... clean and repaint your walls... to seal up odor. That should do the trick... you could smell your furniture also... maybe you have to replace that as well etc, etc & your welcome! OH...and if your animals are spraying your carpet you might want to gate them in the kitchen or get a large enough kennel... those metal wired ones are nice. Potty train your animals. If our dog goes pee outside he gets free time... to roam in the living room. Gradually increase the free time as long as they are not having accidents... this takes a watchful eye until they are trained. 24/7
I would try mopping with several types of cleaners. First a bleach/water mixture. Then lysol/water mixture. Then maybe vinegar/water mixture? Let the floor dry very well between moppings. Then seal the floor with either Kilz or Zinsser.
I was wondering the same exact thing...listen, I know that our furbabies can have accidents from time to time, but my gosh, take your damn dog out a couple of times a day. I feel lazy sometimes but I get up or my husband gets up and does it anyway. I'd rather take him out real quick, let him release, then have to deal with this disgusting filthy mess. My thing is right now, I just rescued a beautiful boy 3 days ago, he smelled aweful. Gave him a quick bath as soon as we got him home, but honestly it wasn't a super great bath but it helped a little, so I made him a appointment to get groomed by a professional 😊 this afternoon. Now, for the past 2 days he's been laying on my rugs and stuff and that smell kind of lingers on any fabric so I'm just trying to find a way to get rid of the little bit of doggie smell by the time he comes back home nice & fresh from the groomers....
WTF! That carpet needs to be replaced! Disgusting! The cost of this carpet cleaning service - no matter how good he is - will equal or be more than replacing the cheap quality carpet.
Replace the carpet with either wood floor or even better tile. I don’t know why people like carpet that shit gets nasty after 10 or so years. Even if you don’t have pets it smells like stinky feet with wear and tear.
listen this will sound crazy but my butter knives fit perfectly into the cracks between. i soak a napkin in some cleaner and wrap the butter knife and go in and then when im done, i can see dirt or maybe pee on the wet napkin
You need a good enzyme in that situation osr is the best product to use in that situation no pulling carpet or pad treat in place it will cure it guarenteed
Yea, he recorded this for the owners and did an after thought and stated I could put this on RU-vid and have people watch this, make a little extra change(💰) for myself. Two jobs, doing one day of work. Happy me😄
Step one, train your pet. Step two train your pet. Step three, if steps one and two are unsuccessful, get off your ass and buy pads for your pet and/or kennel your pet. If all three steps are unsuccessful, admit to yourself you should not have a pet. The example shown happened over many many weeks and months. That’s an unhealthy situation for both the pet and the owner.
Definitely do not put carpet down on that floor again if they have animals. We got rid of all our carpet and put in amazing waterproof luxury vinyl planks, and it’s the best thing we ever did. Same price as good carpet and no hassle.
Or stay outside until bedtime period. Residual dog urine is bad for our frikkin health and smells Horrible. Urine,chemical cleaner, urine, chemical cleaning pattern is horrible.
I’m British so our products are different & services are different . My problem is worse than carpet because the urine has soaked into a porous wooden floor . I’ve been trying to resoak the wood with vinager & bicarb of soda . Any suggestions from anyone here ? Thankyou
Maybe they can resend and reseal wood first. Also Ozone treatment is effective for odors. I knew someone that had to take out 2 ft of drywall near trim and replace insulation there too from cat urine
It's probably too late now, but I'd advise against the baking soda and instead suggest orange oil... though it might take a lot of applications if the wood was saturated. Oxalic acid removes stains in wood, but not sure it'd work for the odor.
we have females that are fixed. Its a parsons terrier. She has destroyed at least 3 sets of carpets in 2 different houses. Good thing we love her or she would of been gone a long time ago.
RIP up the carpets and pad,throw down cat litter and leave it for 24-48 hours,sweep up cat litter and mop hardwood floors with bleach water let dry and stain floor and varnish lighty.
that carpet had a mild problem compared to the carpet I just pulled out of a house. They had a rat dog pissing on the carpet at will for the last 15 years. The acid in the urine had completely destroyed the particle board underlayment, turning it into stinky sawdust. In the thousands of homes I've seen, it was by far the worst (because the problem was everywhere as opposed to just one area). However, the owners were so lazy that they never bothered to try to get rid of the stink and because of that, it didn't stink nearly as bad as it does when people try to use deodorizers to kill the stink. Deodorizers do nothing but magnify the problem.
So basically the real solution is to replace the carpet lol. That’s lame. What happens when the animals keep peeing on the new carpet? Just gotta get new carpet all the time? Fuck that.
We have 3 cats and one dog, the cats have ruined my kids carpet and I've tried everything and nothing worked. My husband ordered this today so this afternoon I'll give it a try and pray it works.
"I'll give it a try and pray it works." don't bother. it won't. you have to get rid of the little assholes using your home as a toilet or resign yourself to living in filth. Those are your two options.
Just can never understand why landlords who accept pets allow small dogs and cats.. biggest offenders of peee. I lived in an apartment that wreaked and the landlord said they "shampooed the carpets" .. shampoo? Had to break the lease, I'm allergic to cats and the closet wreaked.
