Monday, February 27, 2012

How to Get Rid of Dog Urine in Carpets

By Dirk Gruenberg


Getting dog urine out of carpet is not always an easy task, and it is not a task that should be taken lightly. Dog urine tends to soak through the carpet and into the padding underneath it.

As you can imagine, there are bacteria in the urine and they can settle down underneath the carpet and in the padding, and eventually they can smell quite gross. Unfortunately, these bacteria can keep smelling long after the urine itself is gone.

With that being said, however, in most cases you can successfully remove the smell. Of course, your first course of action after your dog peed on the carpet is to soak as much of it up with paper towels as possible.

Once you have done this, pour vinegar over the spot where the urine was and about two inches outside of the stain. Let the vinegar sit on your carpet for about thirty minutes. Soak up all of the vinegar with more towels.

Now that the liquids are all soaked up, take your carpet cleaner and clean the spot vigorously with hot water. Make sure it is hot, or else it will not be as effective.

If the cleaner has a heavy duty button, or heavy traffic button, use this option. Go over the entire area, and at least six inches around the stain. If this does not remove the stain, go over it again, until it does.

After doing that it is time for the carpet to dry. Open the windows so as to get the smell of the urine out - and check after about half an hour, the smell should be gone.

What should you do if after the 30 minutes you still smell the urine? Well, I am afraid you will have to repeat the vinegar procedure one more time. Then use the carpet cleaner again, and remember to use hot water with it.

Then, once the smell is gone and the floor is mostly dry, add carpet deodorizer. And once you have done that, you can sit back and hope that the next accident will not happen to soon again.




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