Professionally Cleaned Carpet Works..

[Erin]

Originally Posted by drawlins27

I had the same problem with a new house I bought. Only the bedrooms were carpeted but the carpet smelled like urine. I had it professionally cleaned and the smell just kept coming back because it had soaked into the padding.

I had new carpet installed and they told me about a special kind of carpet pad that prevented urine from soaking into the pad. It had some kind of plastic barrier on it. It was only a few cents extra so I went for it. In total I think it cost me around $50 extra for the special padding. It really works. Bailey has been having some incontinence problems lately and the pad keeps all of the urine in the carpet which I can clean versus the pad which I can't.

The owner of the store where we bought our flooring from also mentioned this. He also has some new carpet we are considering that you can clean with bleach - no matter what color it is!

[Ceibasmom]

I used this company (similar to Chem-Dry) and was very pleased with the results. I have no stains and no odor left. They treated the area with some sort of enzymes to clean the carpet. It has been at least 2 months since I've had it done and it has not come back, either. I will say they are on the expensive side (3 rooms for $200 or so) but to me, well worth it!
PS -
I will also mention that I used Nature's Miracle spray every time one of them had an accident, but it did not appear to do much for the stench. No stains, but definitely a urine smell was left behind.

[Patti]

I wish they had told me about that padding before I put all new carpet in my house last year!!! That was before I got Pixie who is my problem child when it comes to accidents.

[judyeve]

I called two professional carpet cleaners and they both told me honestly not to bother because the urine gets to the padding. They've both been around for years, so I consider them reputable.

What they said was that I won't smell it, but the dog will.

That new padding sounds like a solution to the carpet problem when you have dogs.

[symplistik]

Originally Posted by Anna Lou

I have been adding febreze for pet odors to the water in the steam cleaner and it seems to work.

I do this too and it definately works!

[CO_yorkie_momma]

Originally Posted by Judy in Waco

Well, my master bathroom DOES have carpet. Can you think of a more stupid design??

Luckily my kitchen, dining room, laundry room and pantry have hardwood inspired vinyl flooring. The guest bath has the same vinyl flooring, but it's pretty tiny.

I am trying very hard to keep up with the urine stains on the carpet, so I think I will go buy a black light, but I really dread it.

I went and checked out the luxury vinyl today that looks like hardwood. I think that is what I am going to go with. I went in and asked the guy what the best flooring was for dogs that arent potty trained and he said that. He had a buch laid on the floor and I wouldnt have know it wasnt hard wood. It is just as expensive though.

[Judy in Waco]

I would get a second opinion on that price. I can't imagine that it costs as much as hardwood flooring! Maybe carpet, but hardwood??

I wouldn't know about the price though...it was already installed when we bought the house...hence the carpet in the master bathroom. (I still can't get over that.) I know that I will eventually pull all of my carpet and replace it with the vinyl flooring, but the carpet is only five years old, so I am trying to go as long as I can before I have to do that. (Fingers crossed) The vinyl is VERY easy to clean, I agree with him on that.

I think that special padding is a GREAT idea.

[eroar2]

We just had the carpet replaced in our upstairs hallway with hardwood. We had the special padding underneath. I would constantly clean the carpet with my home steam cleaner and even had it professionally cleaned once but just couldn't get the smell to go away.... When they pulled out the carpet the pad was in perfect condition, but the carpet was just nasty underneath, pee stains everywhere....

[scoobiedooiscoo]

i use mirical solution in my home steam cleaner and on spots between cleanings, also when we got our carpeting replaced the pad was sicking so we got basement padding thats plastic coated on both sides so now we know the pee wont soak in yeaaaaa!

[mistyinca]

Originally Posted by cindy0721

I have one room that i cannot seem to get the pee smell out of even after I steam clean them myself, if I was to get them professionally cleaned would it take away that smell? I do not have stains anywhere just the stench...

Call a chem dry place, and ask them how they can get the smell out. They'll probably deep clean it with a commercial grade neutralizer. The problem with steam is that it has now sent all that pee into the pad. It may not be able to come out.

I don't use steam at all. It is very bad for your carpet fibers and strips away the scotchguarding that is put into the carpet. With steam, you are basically "washing" with water something that should be dry cleaned. Chem dry companies use a solvent--kind of like what they clean your clothes with when you send them to the dry cleaners.

[erika1948]

I use the Odor 123 kit which I found online. It comes with a syringe that you use to inject the enzyme formula into the pad through the carpet. I put down new carpet about two years ago and my yorkie peed anyway. When I had the carpets cleaned at the end of June they did not say anything about urine stains so I assume this is working. It does not work as well on my area rug, but I still use it and on my hardwood floor too as he sometimes goes there. First you buy a black light separately somewhere to locate the stains. Then you use the yellow out solution which eliminates the yellow, the enzyme urine remover which you inject with the injector tool, and odor neutralizer. It seems to be the best thing I've found yet. I have a real problem with my yorkie and sometimes I need to get down and do the smell test because I don't catch his mistakes right away.

[erika1948]

Forgot to add something and this is the most important step. After using the neutralizer you put a damp white cloth on top of the spot and tap it into the carpet with your foot and let it sit for 24 hours. You will see the brown urine stain come up onto the white rag from out of the carpet. I think this is how the urine is drawn out of the carpet. Perhaps this final step might work with other products but not sure. It's worth giving it a try.

[judyeve]

That Odor 123 sounds interesting. I don't have yellow stains, but I'd love to get the smell out. I think it's really a widespread problem though. I'd be injecting for days! I have a huge apartment, most of it carpeted.

What doesn't work on the area rug? (I picked most of mine up anyway).

[erika1948]

Hi, I realized after I posted this that the real name of this stuff is 123 Odor Free. You can use it on the area rug but because there really isn't padding under there you can't use the injector tool. The injector tool is what you use to get the odor elimination thru the carpet into the padding. You can just spray it onto the area rug and then use the other products and tap it in but somehow it doesn't seem to work as well. Also, if you are going to tap it in, you have to put something under the area rug so it doesn't we the floor underneath. It seems to work pretty well for me but it doesn't stop him from going again so it's a constant battle!

[JoyRenee]

Originally Posted by Lovin' Gracie

Chem-Dry around here (I think they're national) has a pet urine treatment. They come in with a black light, treat all the spots, and come back 48 hours later to clean the carpet. I had it done a few years ago after Gracie was trained and so far no stains and no urine smell at all. It was a bit expensive as I recall.

Thank you for this info... I just inquired in this and I am quite excited to get my carpet done.