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Remove Pet Odor
from Carpeting
Pets are great and we love them. But
there are certain things that come with pets. As with bringing
a 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.
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.
As their instincts are the sensitive-nosed
dog will also return to that familiar odor to do his business.
But, they are so dang cute.
Just a few thoughts
as you are maintaining your flooring. There are many more flooring
articles in our flooring
section. There is more specific information in the links at
the beginning of this article. They can guide you where you need
to go.
Hardwood
vs Laminate
The difference is more than you think, or maybe not!
Good
Carpet is best!
There is nothing like walking barefoot on great carpet
Caring
for Hardwood is easier than you think.
Just vacuum and you are done.
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