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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 10196007, member: 649"]Wow, I didn't know "horse stall cleaners" existed! (Filing this away mentally for possible future use, thanks.)</p><p>In a previous home I had a cat who was partial to a corner of my son's bedroom. It was carpeted but by the time I traced where the odor was coming from, it had been in use for some time and the urine had soaked through to the wood beneath. I pulled up that corner of carpet and used everything I could think of, including several products made for pet smells... nothing worked <i>completely</i>. Ended up throwing down a bunch of baking soda on the wood under the carpet (which I <i>had</i> been able to make odor-free) and that seemed to mostly do the trick... except on the hottest days. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":cat:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I got the baking soda idea from another home I'd lived in. When I replaced the wall-to-wall carpeting, I found baking soda in a couple corners and staining on the wood underfloor. NO odors, so it had done it's job. The previous owner of that home had had small dogs. </p><p>But cat urine is much more odiferous than dog urine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 10196007, member: 649"]Wow, I didn't know "horse stall cleaners" existed! (Filing this away mentally for possible future use, thanks.) In a previous home I had a cat who was partial to a corner of my son's bedroom. It was carpeted but by the time I traced where the odor was coming from, it had been in use for some time and the urine had soaked through to the wood beneath. I pulled up that corner of carpet and used everything I could think of, including several products made for pet smells... nothing worked [I]completely[/I]. Ended up throwing down a bunch of baking soda on the wood under the carpet (which I [I]had[/I] been able to make odor-free) and that seemed to mostly do the trick... except on the hottest days. :cat: I got the baking soda idea from another home I'd lived in. When I replaced the wall-to-wall carpeting, I found baking soda in a couple corners and staining on the wood underfloor. NO odors, so it had done it's job. The previous owner of that home had had small dogs. But cat urine is much more odiferous than dog urine.[/QUOTE]
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