I borrowed a steam cleaner from a friend, and after using it, it left a really strong dog odor. My friend does own several dogs. I'm not sure how to go about removing the odor. Can anyone help?

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I borrowed a steam cleaner from a friend, and after using it, it left a really strong dog odor. My friend does own several dogs. I'm not sure how to go about removing the odor. Can anyone help?

Hmmm,
The cleaner was not maintained clean then. You just smeared the dog
smell all over. Make sure the machine is clean B4 and after using it.
I have my own steam cleaner but I always keep it clean. Also I use
liquid "Oxy clean" with it often. I have a dog only now but used to have
cat too(passed away due to old age, no more cats)

I guess you'll have to do it all over again with clean(ed) machine.

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:49:45 -0800 (PST),
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I borrowed a steam cleaner from a friend, and after using it, it left a really strong dog odor. My friend does own several dogs. I'm not sure how to go about removing the odor. Can anyone help?

Maybe. If people here knew what you used the machine on.

Was it carpet, upholstery for furniture, or a vehicle.

Details matter!

On 11/25/2013 4:49 PM, wrote:
I borrowed a steam cleaner from a friend, and after using it, it left a really strong dog odor. My friend does own several dogs. I'm not sure how to go about removing the odor. Can anyone help?

Home Depot sells odor reducer stuff, in the
cleaning chemicals section. Maybe a splash
of that, in with the wash water, would help?


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What happened there is typical for OLD carpets.

You see, even the best vaccuum cleaners can't get all of the soil out of a carpet. Dead skin, pollen, paper and cloth fibers and other such household dust eventually accumulate in the carpet to the point where if you get that carpet wet, you create a bacteria's idea of heaven; plenty of food and moist conditions allowing the bacteria to move around and multiply because the moisture allows them to move around. If they're able to move, then there's vastly more food available to them than if they stay in one place, and that means the eat and divide into lots of little bacteria that look just like dad. It's that bacterialogical population explosion that is causing the smell.

That is, your carpet smells like a wet dog for exactly the same reason a non-show dog, one that rarely gets a bath, smells after a bath. The reason why is that the dog's fir is full of bacteria from everything it's rolled in, dead dog skin cells and whatever has been trapped by his fur. You get it wet, and the bacteria inside that fur multiply and make the dog smell. Show dogs don't smell like that after a bath because they get cleaned regularily and don't have as much bacteria food in their fur.

It's the bacterial population explosion that's causing the smell. And, that population explosion will subside as the carpet dries out. If you can put a dehumidifier in the room to dry it out, that will eliminate the smell sooner.

What that experience is telling you is that your carpet is at the end of it's life. A new carpet would not have smelled like that because it wouldn't have had so much food inside it for the bacteria to feed on.

Professional carpet cleaning contractors, when asked to clean an old carpet like that will use a bactericide in the solution tank. That doesn't get the carpet any cleaner; it just kills any bacteria the water comes into contact with to prevent that bacterial population explosion, and hence the smell. That way, the cleaning contractor can do the job, get paid and not get any complaints about the smell. He knows the real fix is to replace the carpet, but the homeowner replacing the carpet doesn't put any money in his wallet.

If you want to keep your carpet, the fastest way to get rid of the smell is to dry the carpet as quickly as possible. If you live where it's cold, one quick way to do that is to open your windows and doors and allow the warm moist air in your house to escape. Then close the windows when you feel cold. As the cold dry air in your house warms up, it's relative humidity will go way down, and it will absorb moisture from the carpet. So, repeat those two steps of releasing the warm air to the outside and allowing cold dry air into your house over and over again until your carpet is dry. The smell will disappear as the carpet dries.

But, the bottom line here is that you should really be looking at replacing that carpet with a new one, or chucking the carpet and installing another kind of flooring that bacteria food doesn't accumulate in.

Here, I stumbled across a post I typed 15 years ago (in 1998) where someone else asked exactly the same question as you did:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...I/ODstdQD8O5UJ

It gives a fuller description of what's happening, but the bottom line is that it's bacteria feeding and multiplying in your carpet that's causing the smell.

The smell will subside as the carpet dries out, but the bottom line is that your old carpet needs to be replace with a new one or with another kind of flooring that doesn't allow bacteria food to accumulate in it.

PS:
In that same Google Groups thread, there's some guy that responded to the same question that claims to be a Master Carpet Cleaning Whatever and keeps citing lack of sufficient training as the cause of problems like this. If this guy knew what the problem was, he'd spit it out, but he fails to even mention the word "bacteria".

Take a look at this link I cited at the end of that thread which says:

Most offensive malodors encountered in carpet cleaning are the result of bacteria feeding on a food source. Some of the bacteria that remain in the carpet after general cleaning continue to be killed by the deodorizer active long after the professional cleaner has left the premises.

If lack of training of the person cleaning the carpet caused problems like the carpet smelling afterward, then homeowner who rents a Rug Doctor at a supermarket would end up with this same problem. Most of the time it doesn't happen because most of the time the carpets are newer and don't have as much accumulated food in them.

But, the bottom line is that old carpet of yours is at the end of it's useful life and needs to be replaced.

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:49:45 -0800 (PST),
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I borrowed a steam cleaner from a friend, and after using it, it left a really strong dog odor. My friend does own several dogs. I'm not sure how to go about removing the odor. Can anyone help?


Unless you literally were using the dirty water that he used this
makes no sense. Assuming you used clean water and detergent the only
smell you could get would either be a smell in the air due to a stinky
exit filter in the machine or your carpet already had old dog odor in
it and getting it wet reactivated that old odor. If it was from a
dirty exit filter the smell should go away is you air out the place.
If its from your carpet, that too should go away as it fully dries but
it could take quite a bit longer, perhaps a week to a month.