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Banty wrote:
In article , davej says...
Hi,

Can any one help me with a problem that I am having at my aunts home. My
aunt had many, many cats before she passed away and it took over 3 months to
find new homes for them. The question that I have involves cat urine odor in
the house. The house requires a lot of work but I cant seem to get any one
to work in there because of the odor. Does anyone know of any solutions to
remove the urine odor. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much,

Open up house (all windows..), pull up and discard all carpet and strips, etc.
You may need to pull up other flooring, too. Possibly even some
wallboards/sheetrock if you see water-discoloration marks.

Anything you may need to discard due to cat odor is repairs you'd need to do
anyway. So you might as well start by getting that stuff out.

Banty


This is the best advice, based upon experience. Once you do all of that,
then use some type of enzyme based cleaner. Then use a sealer like
kills, bin shellac or even polyurathane on the exposed portions of the
structure then have your workers re-sheetrock, re-floor, etc.

Yep. I have cats, had one that became incontinent (put her outdoors and cared
for her best I can), and, after multiple liberal applications of "Natures's
Miracle", finally took an xacto knife to the carpet in question.

A conversation with a ServPro manager later confirmed that experience - the
enzyme stuff needs very liberal application, takes a long time, and works only
yea far - someone inured to the cat odor (read, the cat owner) may get it where
they think it 'works' (and this IMO is where all the positive testimonials come
from), but my neighbors' kids were telling me otherwise.

In the case of the original poster, he has a much bigger problem than
spot-cleaning would solve, and has no attachment to the current interior
furbishments. So, really, all that stuff should just go out.

I think it would have to be a really extreme case to do more than possibly
re-wall in places.

Banty


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