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Cat urine odor ?
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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, daveJ |
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davej wrote:
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, daveJ Hi Dave, Were un-neutered tomcats involved? They're the worst... Here are some ideas - not particularly well tested... If you can isolate specific spots where the cat(s) have been widdling, try vinegar - it's the classic thing to try. It may help, it may not - but you've nothing to lose. I tried this on a spot were a cat nipped in and widdled in my bathroom. Limited success but it did help. Give the house a good airing - windows open on warm days, get rid of as many furnishings and carpets as possible - even if they aren't damaged they'll be picking up the odour themselves. Next thing that *might* work is sodium bicarbonate - get loads in powder form, mix into a paste with water and daub on to the worst spots, leave to dry (couple of days if possible) then hoover up dry. The last trick works really well on fridge interiors - not tested with cat urine, but might be worth trying?... Bicarb is really good at sucking up odours. Failing all of that, perhaps some scent (perfume, joss sticks, air-freshener) might make it more bearable for the workmen? HTH Tim (in the UK) |
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Have you tried spraying the whole place with Fabreeze? Available at
supermarkets and Walmart, etc. "davej" wrote in message ... 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, daveJ |
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davej wrote:
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! Ozone generator. Not a piddly-ass model, a BIG one. It should put out 900ug per minute. You can buy one on Ebay (significant bucks), then re-sell it when done. These are used to freshen sites where dead horses have languished for many months or meeting rooms where the opposition political party has gathered. |
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 09:37:05 -0400, "davej"
wrote: 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, daveJ I had a cat that was 'stressed' and wouldn't go to her pan. Well after some research, I had to take steps to clean it up. 1. Find the areas effected. 2. Try and remove as much urine as possible. Wipe down, dab up, carpet clean. 3. Realize you cannot cover the smell or fully removed it, and treat the area with an enzime that will break down the urine. Some people suggest nature's miracle, but I found "simple solution" worked best for us. Now we only had a few small spots, but it did take time. The areas's weren't physically damaged, so there was no reason to remove effecte material. What I'm saying, what worked for us doesn't mean it will work for all situations. You might have to replace items, or hire a real cleaning service. good luck, tom @ www.NoCostAds.com |
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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 -- |
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There is a product an Enzime base deoderiser it might be Natures
Miracle or something similar, call pet stores or look online. Ive heard it works, that the enzime digests the odor bacteria-molicule or something like that, it does more than cover it up, it gets rid of the smell. |
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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. For a one spot small mess the other suggestions are fine. I even heard of one severe case where the house was donated to the local fire company for practice - They burned the house down. If the neighborhood can support a new house it may even be worthwhile re-building for a better ROI. Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php |
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"m Ransley" wrote in message ... There is a product an Enzime base deoderiser it might be Natures Miracle or something similar, call pet stores or look online. Ive heard it works, that the enzime digests the odor bacteria-molicule or something like that, it does more than cover it up, it gets rid of the smell. We used this product on a corner of the dining room where I discovered that our cat had taken to urinating on the carpet. It takes some time for the product to work (sometimes weeks) as it has to "digest" the urine residue. My mother repossesed an old mom and pop store building where the tenant had allowed a tomcat free roam of the empty store area. He had sprayed all over the place and the odor was horrific. I gave her some of this stuff and she sprayed everywhere she could smell the cat and within a few weeks the odor was gone. Like I said, you have to be patient and may even have to apply more than once if it's really bad. Tom G. |
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On 15 May 2006 07:47:02 -0700, Banty wrote:
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. Should have started with a 12-gauge for the cats... |
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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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Sometimes the floor and subfloor must go, I saw it happen in one room a
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Does anyone know of any solutions ... You should really choose your aunts more carefully. |
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Dave:
If there is any carpet you will probably need to pull it up remove the padding and seal the floor with Kilz or some other product. here is the bad part. Go to a party supply place and pick up a black light fluorescent or flood and go over to the house when it is dark and turn on the blacklight. The urine stains will glow white. I had a dog with a "problem" and have NOT found any product from natures miracle to urine gone and about 6 other products that will actually remove the stain so it will not show up under blacklight Check the walls urine on walls will come off with a regular cleaner Wayne davej wrote: 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, daveJ |
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"davej" wrote in :
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, daveJ http://www.odordestroyer.com |
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I HAD THAT TROUBLE! With 2 incontenient people mom stepdad and 3 ill
dogs. You CANT wash it off or neutralize the odor.... No how no way! You just do what fire restoration companies do... Discard all cloth smelly stuff. carpet pad furniture etc. Empty area completely and scrub down with your favorite spic and span, mr clean etc. Wash EVERYTHING AND RINSE TWICE, change water often! Paint all walls etc with BIN or KILZ. sand floor lightly and coat with OUTDOOR polyruethane! Use the outdoor smelly kind so the odor doesnt reoccur every time you have wet weather. this is the ONLY way but it works 100% and you will never know you had a problem! Basically you seal the odor into the surfaces |
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 09:37:05 -0400, "davej"
wrote: 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, daveJ A guy in a car group had mouse urine in his car's hood pad. This is what he said: I tried Nature's Miracle, and Febreze, and neither appeared to work- so I thought. I went out today, and not a smell to be smelled in the hood pad. So, either, or both, I don't know. I went over the interior with Prestone interior cleaner which claims to have a odor nuetralizer. The interior was slightly smelly because of air going into the car thru the HVAC, not from critters inside. I think I'll have to spray some of the Nature's Miracle (put into a spray bottle) and/or Febreze into the air intake where the washer bottle is. Some prob got down there, too. It looks curable though. YEAH! Thanks for all the input. |
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 02:37:41 -0500, mers (The Enigmatic
One) wrote: In article , says... There is a product an Enzime base deoderiser it might be Natures Miracle or something similar, call pet stores or look online. Ive heard it works, that the enzime digests the odor bacteria-molicule or something like that, it does more than cover it up, it gets rid of the smell. Yeah, sorta. The enzyme products you see in most stores--mainstream stuff--is pretty poor stuff. Weak. Better than, say, Febreeze, but not something to deal with a serious issue. Head to your Vet, a veternary supply place or, better, a medical supply place and get a real industrial strength enzyme--the stuff they use to clean up in nursing homes and the like. I've found Urine Off to work well, but it is pretty expensive. -Tim My two cents.... I contacted my Vet about my cat's accidents, and in the process ased how to remove the urine, since that was part of her rehab, and they recommeded Nature's Miracle. Since that is what they sold. later, tom @ www.FreelancingProjects.com |
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