Help with urine odor in carpet

[dbradley]

While we were on vacation someone had a huge pee accident on a carpet. I dont' know if my neighbor soaked it up first or what, I do know they tried to clean it up in some way. I have tried a few things... soaking the spot in nature's miracle, using my carpet cleaning machine with regular cleaning solution and a special pet solution, rinsing a whole lot...but the odor persists. It's in my daughter's room and I really need to do someting.

Does anyone have any tried and true ways to get rid of this odor without ripping out a not yet 2 year old carpet?

 

[CMDRTED]

I'm surprised the Nature's Miracle did not work. You might try Fabreeze and see if that will kill the odor.

 

[ardeagold]

White Vinegar and Water (more vinegar than water) ... pour it on... get it out with the machine. Let dry, then do the Nature's Miracle. Same thing...POUR it on, let it soak in for a while...get it out with the machine.

It has to get where the urine spread out. You can't try to surface clean because the urine "ran". If you drench it with the solutions, it'll probably run the same direction.

 

[TerriW]

Not to top this, Nutzycat, but I once had carpet laid on a Saturday, and went out of town the next Fri-Sat-Sun, leaving the dogs home with a 6x per day dog-walker (two of them, actually) and STILL came home to a massively destroyed carpet that had to be pulled up and replaced two weeks after I laid it. So I know what you are feeling right now.

The problem is that it's probably soaked into the pad and even the subflooring. Newf pee is very .. uh ... voluminous (there lots of it!). One thing I did try recently - because Ben still has accidents at 9 mos - was to clean it traditionally, then put some hot water and a splash of hydrogen peroxide in the carpet steamer. It took out even the faintest shadows and odors. Although my carpet is cream-colored, so this might depend on your carpet color, as h.p. is a bleaching agent.

Just a thought.

[ 08-06-2006, 01:19 PM: Message edited by: Terri P ]

 

[littlerosieuk]

Biological washing powder. I have no idea what brands you have in the US but Ariel works wonders.

Janet

 

[lam72257]

vinegar and water here too. Pour it right on the area. We had a very stinky pee the other day and this worked!

 

[ardeagold]

Of course, your house will smell like a salad for a while........

 

[NessaM]

My cat continually peed in the same spot on a gorgeous persian rug we have in our dining room - we tried Nature's Miracle on the rug and the pad and he still kept marking there - and I could still smell the cat urine!

So we tried Get Serious instead - smell all gone - and I'm pretty sure the cat has decided to pee outside from now on - it's been months and no more marking. We found it at Pet Smart.

 

[bella123]

my sister in law just told me to try spray bottle with equal parts of rubbing alcohol and distilled vinegar about 1 cup each.I had 2 stains on my leather sofa cushion from my cat(when he peed several yrs ago that i tried everything to get up he went under the cushion) I had several stains from the previous owner and 2 stains in my bathroom from my cat Ertai. I tried it and was completely shocked the stain and odor was completely gone. I used this stuff about 1wk ago and the odor is gone and the stains are gone also SHOCKER!

 

[TerriW]

Originally posted by Ardeagold:
Of course, your house will smell like a salad for a while........

 

[shelly]

For anybody replacing carpeting, I highly highly recommend the carpet padding that has a plastic lining across the top so nothing seeps into the padding. It was a little more expensive, but well worth the extra bucks. We had it put throughout the whole house...live and learn!

 

[KS Newf]

I thought if you just kept resoaking and evaporating Nature's Miracle it would eventually eat all the enzemes!! I'm sorry you came back to this problem!!

 

[dbradley]

Thaks all...I soaked the spot for about an hour in a half vinegar/half water solution...jsut poured it on there. Then I sucked it up with my carpet cleaner and rinsed it using the carpet cleaner on jsut the rinse cycle. It's still drying now but I think it did some good. I will probably end up doing it again though.

 

[NinaA]

Getting ready to replace a whole house full of carpet. Did not know about the water proof pads. Thanks for the info.

Nina
et al

 

[Redhead5639]

I have 5 rescue cats and one dog that I have never caught that occassionaly use the carpet. It is a darker carpet. Here is what works for me and gets rid of the smell.

Using own carpet shampooer I go over the areas with warm water only. Then I take Shout and spray it on them. Wait about 15 min and shampoo using the Hoover pet stain/odor detergent that comes with the machine. I then go over the entire area again with warm water alone.

This has done a better job for me than any commercial cleaning company.

There is one are that the sneaky cats were peein on that I could not see until I moved furniture.
That stain is yellowish and I have not been able to get it out and I have tried everything. The odor is gone.

I bought some new "oxycleaner" type spray and I am going to try it, but I think the carpet is actually bleached. So solution if this doesn't work is to get a permanent marker and do a little coloring. It can't look any worse.

BonnieF Tx

 

[ardeagold]

Bonnie...that's why we got rid of ALL carpeting in the house except in our LR, where no animal (human or otherwise) dares to step foot (unless I say it's OK...like at Christmas). (It's my one really NICE room)

When you pull up all the carpeting...you'll be amazed at all the places the "rescue cats" (we have six of them) mark. ICK! We found places we never saw.

Now it's so wonderful!! No cleaning carpets ever again! (Unless somebody spills something in that LR on Christmas...then they're dead meat, never to be allowed to step foot in there again!!)

We had just replaced ALL of the upstairs carpeting four years ago. I wish we had never bothered, but you live and learn!

Now we and our animals live in sweet harmony!! They don't like to pee on the hard floor! Just shows they always knew what that darned litter box was...brats!!

[ 08-07-2006, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: Ardeagold ]

 

[Mary Kay & Guy Germaine]

You know JenK won some Zero Odor at the NN Get Together and said it was great. I ordered some and have not used it yet. I'll keep you posted.

Mary Kay

 

[CMDRTED]

I tried Get Serious, after NN recommendation. One of our Older (16 YOA) Poms had a bladder control incident, it worked great!

 

[N2N Mags Dad]

Biggest shop wetvac.

Large pitchers of soapy warm water.

Soak / vac / soak / vac ad infinitum.

Dry and hope.

 

[luvxl k 9]

We are now in the same position of Ardea thank goodness but when we had carpeting I really liked Simple Solutions Oxy Solution. The only place I could find it was at Pet Smart. Tried a few of the other Oxy products but none of them ever worked. I'd actually spray it on and most stains would just disappear as would the odor. Our cat had a problem with her tail a while back and got blood on the carpet and several pieces of furniture. I had to scrub somewhat but it took it out of everything!