Removing Pet Odor from Carpeting

Pets are great and we love them. But there are certain things that come with pets. As with bringing any new life into your home, there is certain behavioral traits that have to be learned. Protecting your investments are one of them. There natural instincts afford them the luxury of urinating whenever and where ever they need. Without proper training whenever and wherever is sometimes indoors on your carpet. I hate to say it but training the new member of your family is the easy part.

The smell of urine is very bad, it can also get into the padding and possibly in the
sub floor underneath the carpet. Steam cleaning will not help this problem. Urine is
humectant and feeds on moisture. You will notice the odor will get worse the more
you steam clean it. You will need to get to the source of the odor. This is a semi-
difficult process. The carpet will need to be pulled back and the padding replaced,
in some cases, because all padding is basically just a dense sponge. This urine is
trapped in this sponge and is very difficult to extract out.

The next step will be treating the floor. In wood and even concrete slab floors urine
will soak into these pores and need to be treated and sealed. If the flooring is not
properly treated and sealed before putting back the new pad and freshly cleaned
carpet, you have not gotten rid of the problem and the smell will return to the
carpet when it gets a little humid or when the house is closed up for a while.

There are some products that will help with the odor and kills the active part of it,
but to really get it. These steps are necessary.

As their natural instincts are the sensitive-nosed dog will also return to that familiar
odor to do his business. But, they are so dang cute.

Denton Lesslie is the president of http://www.greathomeimprovements.com and a consultant for Department of Energy’s Building America Division for the
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