Anybody have any good remedy's for removing smell of cat urination in the carpet? We tried everything we could think of...baking soda, stain and odor remover, color safe bleach...etc

Please post any remedy's that have worked for you. Thanks.

 

Speaking from experience (I clean carpets for a living), cat urine is the closest thing to impossible to remove as you can get. The ammonia gets in there and etches itself deep into the carpet. Depending on how old it is you might be able to steam clean it and pull it out. But that's only if it's a couple days tops. If it's really old then your pretty much not gonna get it out. If your determined to get it out then have someone professionally (don't try it with those home units) clean the front and back side of the carpet (they are going to need to restretch it) and treat the front and back sides with whatever chemical they use to kill smells. If that doesn't work then it may have gotten into the pad and you'll need to replace the pad. I've replaced entire rooms of pad before and cleaned front and back sides and treated both sides of the carpet before and still can't get rid of the smell.

 

I was at a recent estate auction where this 900 pound little old lady had lived, along with a bunch of cats.

When I got out of the truck, the urine smell hit me.

The closer I got to the house, the stronger it got; it would burn your eyes.

This loony old girl I know bought a bunch of the antique furniture.

I got volunteered to help her load it and haul it home.

I felt nasty for days.

She has tried everything to get the smell out of the furniture, only to succeed in stirring it up and make it stronger.

To completely eliminate the odor, to where un-accustomed visitors can't smell it, you will have to remove the carpet and pad, and cut out and replace the sub-floor under the affected area.

Your nose will get accustomed to the stinch to where you don't smell it; but, don't think that guests can't smell it.

Believe it or not, hog farmers get immune to the smell of hog EDIT, and blissfully sit in their pew alone, wondering why they have that side of church to themselves.

 

That's as far as I could get. That just made me gag. Yuck!

 

I rehab homes for a living. The only way to get it out is like BB says. If it's old you need to remove the carpet, pad, and disinfect & seal the surface underneath. You can use bleach to clean the surface, let it dry real good, then seal it with oil base paint. Even then it may come back to haunt you when it gets humid. After 3-4 years it usually can't be noticed.

 

step #1, grab cat by tail...

step #2, start circular swinging motion...

step #2, release at point in time where cat will fly out of window...

step #4, follow the guys above advice to get the smell out..

 

Shoot the cats, call Big Blue, write check, problem solved

I hate cats:verymad:
Chris

 

two go out.
one comes back.

 

We used to foster dogs and cats. The only thing we found that worked was Oxy Clean. If the affected area hasn't been totally saturated with urine, it should work. Even if the urine has dried, it should help. Mix up about a cup or two of it and pour onto the affected area. Enough so that it will soak all the way through the carpet, pad and into the sub floor.

 

We had the same problem. Cat edit everywhere. LIke others said.

1. Get rid of cat
2. Get your wallet open
3. Replace trim along walls where it took place.
4. Scrub and seal walls if sprayed.
5. Get rid of carpet
6.Scrubed floor several times with baking soda and bleach.
7. Sealed concrete floor
8. Replace carpet
9. Never ever approve of another cat in your home again as they will be able to pick up on the area where the other cat sprayed and the process could start over again.
10. Since my issue took place in my completely finished basement this problem cost us a small fortune to remodel the whole basement for carpet etc even though I did everything but intsalling the carpet.
11, We do not notice any offending smell in the house after all was done and this is 5 years later now. No body else notices it ether but I nipped this thing in the bud as soon as it started.
If you have the stuff on subflooring then I bet you are in for a lot more work.


I never was crazy about cats and for sure will never ever want anymore ever again now that I understand the amount of damage they can cause

 

Replace carpet. Shoot cat.

Seriously, when we were in college my wife and I lived in a duplex where the previous owners had cats. We tried everything to get rid of the smell and ultimately decided our only option was to replace the carpet and pad. The amount of cat hair that was under that carpet was disgusting. Cats are filthy animals. Even after replacing the carpet and pad and cleaning up all the hair the smell never did fully go away.

 

That is so true! I raised hogs for FFA in high school. That smell will NOT come off your boots. I actually had designated "hog boots" that I'd wear when going to tend to the hogs. Those things didn't get worn anywhere else because of the stink.

 

It is usually not the cat, it the owners. If you don't clean the litter box DAILY they will find another place to go. I've seen cat boxes over flowing with tootise rolls and litter scattered all over. What would you do? Keep going in that same place?

People are the problem (usually) and not the cat.

 

Nope...it's the cat. Cats are from the devil.

 

My retarded ex-wife brought home a cat one day ( while we were still married of course ) and never bothered asking me. Well the dang thing was a long hair which royally ticked me off and the dang thing would always hang out in the basement. Well seeing how the basement wasn't finished, I hardly ever went down there.

Well one night I'm sound asleep and hear the dang cat HOWLING like a dang dog down in the basement......so I ran down there to go kick him and HOLY GOD did it absolutely REAK of cat pee. Come to find out the stupid thing still had his boys and was hosing down my entire basement.

So Mr. Kitty got thrown outside and I never saw him again........

But it took me forever to get the smell of the pee out of the basement. I had a bunch of stuff stored down there and had to throw it away because of that stupid cat. I swear I must have bleached that floor over a dozen times to get that smell out. Every now and then if I'm walking up the stairs I can catch a very small wiff of cat pee.


~Nick