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Post by Perfect Mess on Sept 1, 2009 17:55:19 GMT -5
Hi everyone!!
Anybody have any advice at all how to get pee smell out of carpet?
I have my 3 and 6 year old girls sharing a bedroom. It's small and sometimes cluttered but not in bad shape. It can go from messy to clean easily since I've purged a lot of their toys and there are homes for mostly everything.
I seem to be having a problem now with urine smell in that room. It's pretty bad. I have a very sensitive nose, but it's pungent enough for anyone to notice. I hate it.
The carpet which is only an area carpet but it's pretty huge, has been peed on by both girls and the dog. Last month, I rented a rug cleaner and steamed the living @#$# out of it. But then came the wet smell... you know what I'm talking about.
Now that wet smell is gone, but we're back to pee again.
I really don't want to ditch the rug.
-Tania
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oneweek
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Post by oneweek on Sept 1, 2009 18:26:16 GMT -5
I've had good luck with "odoban". My local Walmart carries it in the cleaning section, it costs just over $2.00 for a standard spray bottle. I tried it that way first and found that I love it. I now buy it at Home Depot in a 1 gallon concentrate, it lasts forever that way. The 1 gallon cost around $10. I have tried all kinds of things to remove odor, and this is the best I've yet to find.
Good luck!
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Post by Perfect Mess on Sept 1, 2009 20:10:41 GMT -5
thanks! I'll give that a try. I've definitely decided that kid pee smells worse than dog pee. They're smell is just horrible.
We have finally resorted to keeping the dogs outside when we go out because that's when they pee and poop in the house. They won't do it when we're in the house.
Anyway thanks!
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Post by Perfect Mess on Sept 1, 2009 20:11:17 GMT -5
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Post by Liz on Sept 1, 2009 21:17:05 GMT -5
If oneweek is getting a gallon for $10 at Home Depot, then yes, it seems overpriced, even with the spray bottle included....plus how much will shipping and handling be?
On the other hand, if it is not a strain on your wallet, it will save time, as you will not have to make an extra trip out to look into stores for it or the possibility that the stores will be out of stock.
I was wondering also, if you could just spritz some of that enzymatic cleaner for pets onto the places that were peed on. The last apt that I lived in had a room that my dog peed in a couple of times and after I had the carpet cleaned, I lightly spritzed the carpet everyday for a week with the cheap stuff from Wal-mart and it smelled great.
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Post by oneweek on Sept 1, 2009 22:27:18 GMT -5
That's about twice as much as what it costs in store. I think getting a small one at wal-mart and trying it out is the best way to go. I would feel bad if you bought the gallon and didn't like it. |
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Post by Peach on Sept 8, 2009 0:37:48 GMT -5
I just purchased OdoBan and have a question about its long-term safety around pets. The cautionary statement says it can cause permanent damage to eyes and to be careful with using around children and pets.
We want to get cat smell out of a section of carpet. Long story short: DH feeds an outside stray who has been neutered. This is a very friendly, but smelly, cat. DH put carpet remnants outside for Spruce to lounge on. The remnants got wet. DH brought the still wet rugs inside to dry -- on the family room carpet. Of course, the cat smell got into the room's carpet. I think this cat rolls in the dirt after he goes, as the smell comes from the cat and it is just awful. By the time I paid attention to the remnants inside the house, it was too late. Now we can't get the odor out of that room.
Question: Has anyone had any problem with their pets suffering permanent eye damage from use of this product? The directions say to spray OdoBan onto the carpet and then to allow it to dry. I am assuming that once it dries, it is safe for pets to walk on. But, while the carpet is wet, pets should be kept out of the room.
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Post by yearning4order on Sept 8, 2009 1:08:51 GMT -5
I had some wonders about this--one thing I was curious about was wondering if there is a plan to take care of possible future occurrences of accidents? Please understand, my thought is that you are about to go through a great deal of effort to try to remove this odor from the kids' room, and it would be awful if it came back.
The reason I say this--our pomeranian is a much beloved pet, but it got to a point for me where there were only certain places I could tolerate the accidents happening. I decided my daughter's bedroom was off limits, for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that kids can do so much funny stuff that will lead to unusual odors anyway (like bringing food in and leaving it in a desk drawer, or chronic night time bedwetting, etc.) that I didn't want to have to deal with combatting odors. So when my daughter is not in her room, we have a baby gate up, and the dog isn't allowed in her room unattended.
I was also curious if the kid pee odor might not be coming from a bed instead of the floor? This is another thing I ask because my own daughter really struggled for many years with night time incontinence. We found that providing her with more blankets and warmer jammies helped a great deal.
Every night for several years (from about age 4-7) we would also wake her at about 10 or 11pm at night, and carry or walk her to the bathroom, arrange her on the toilet and then encourage her to go to the bathroom. Then we would carry or walk her back to her bed, and she would sleep the rest of the night without incident.
This might sound odd to some, but my ex struggled with night time incontinence into his teen years, and endured horrible shaming from his mother about it. I was determined that we were not going to go this route with our daughter, and the nightly assisted trips to the bathroom seemed to help us all. She got it in the toilet without any shame from us, and my ex did not have to be triggered about his own background. By the time she was 7.5 she developed the ability to wake on her own to use the toilet.
We used a plastic bed cover, then put a felted wool blanket on top of this, then a mattress pad, with a sheet over that. The felted wool pad reflected back more warmth, and dampened the funky scrunchy sound the plastic bed cover made.
I'm not sure how intense the smell is that you are dealing with, but I found that the enyzmatic stuff from the store didn't do anything for me at all. Vinegar was far more useful to neutralize an odor if I needed that, but then I had vinegar stink. We tried various pet specific carpet stain treatments.
Really, if I had to recommend something (if the product others are recommending doesn't work), I would get the Bissell carpet cleaning product for pet stains & odors. That thing worked wonders when I was shampooing our carpets.
The other thought is that maybe a single shampooing isn't enough--maybe do it again? I'm also wondering what the surface below the area carpet is? You may need to consider washing that as well.
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Post by phoebepj on Sept 8, 2009 8:46:20 GMT -5
i know you dont want to ditch the rug, but maybe it might be best in this case since the rug is removable. Include the girls in a search for a new rug with the rule that noone pees on it?
You might find you find an area rug you like better than the first one.
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Post by Perfect Mess on Sept 8, 2009 9:15:59 GMT -5
Hey there. Yes if the odoban has those kinds of warnings, I wont' be using it. I sprinkled arm and hammer carpet powder for pet odors on their carpet yesterday. That did wonders. I haven't vacuumed it yet tho so the smell may just come back. If it does, I am just going to start looking for a new carpet.
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Post by howardsgirlfriend on Sept 8, 2009 9:43:53 GMT -5
Do you have wall-to-wall carpet, or an area rug? If it's not wall-to-wall, ditch it.
If I were going to put an area rug in a a situation like this (I finally gave up and went to vinyl floors,) I'd get a bunch of bath mats and sew them together, patchwork style. You could even use separating zippers to allow you to disassemble it into washing-machine-sized sections. If you don't want to sew, you could use a large pice of rubber sheeting, and stick-backed velcro. Your kids would probable enjoy rearranging the patchwork, and you could pop it in the wash easily.
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Post by phoebepj on Sept 8, 2009 13:00:15 GMT -5
howards girlfriend.. thats a brilliant idea!
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Post by oneweek on Sept 8, 2009 13:11:44 GMT -5
I just purchased OdoBan and have a question about its long-term safety around pets. The cautionary statement says it can cause permanent damage to eyes and to be careful with using around children and pets. We want to get cat smell out of a section of carpet. Long story short: DH feeds an outside stray who has been neutered. This is a very friendly, but smelly, cat. DH put carpet remnants outside for Spruce to lounge on. The remnants got wet. DH brought the still wet rugs inside to dry -- on the family room carpet. Of course, the cat smell got into the room's carpet. I think this cat rolls in the dirt after he goes, as the smell comes from the cat and it is just awful. By the time I paid attention to the remnants inside the house, it was too late. Now we can't get the odor out of that room. Question: Has anyone had any problem with their pets suffering permanent eye damage from use of this product? The directions say to spray Odo-Ban onto the carpet and then to allow it to dry. I am assuming that once it dries, it is safe for pets to walk on. But, while the carpet is wet, pets should be kept out of the room. I first bought odo-ban because I read that a lot of Vets and shelters use it because it kills the parvo virus. Last year we took in a puppy that died within days from parvo. We tried to save him, but our vet said that by the time he came to us it was already too late.  We waited the recommend time before bringing another dog into an area where parvo had been. I of course cleaned everything that the other puppy had access to, and used Odo-ban pretty much everywhere in the house. I have one dog and two cats and have never had a problem with it. I still use it at least a few times a week. |
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Post by AnnieOkie on Sept 8, 2009 13:18:40 GMT -5
I think I agree with ditching the carpet, if you are sure that is where the odor is coming from. Also with Yearning4order on checking the mattresses. My younger son still has bed-wetting incidents at age 13 (I wrote a thread about his a while back), so I use a mattress pad under him. I don't think his Dad uses them at his house and I think the mattress is pretty bad on his bed there.  On a funny note.....I had an area carpet/rug in a room of my house. When I first moved in, I was not good about making sure the dog got to go out enough and she urinated on it many times. It REEKED!!!!! I finally rolled it up and put it out for trash pick up. The next day, it was gone.....someone had taken it!  I don't know if they didn't have a sense of smell or what, but that thing was nasty!! |
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