Cleaning Pet Stains Off Your Carpet

When your special member of the relatives does have his small (or not so small) accidents, the most important thing is getting it up immediately. Of work, this is not always feasible, often they do not find our gifts until after work or even the next day.

When this happens, the urine has soaked not only in to the carpet face and backing but also in to the pad that lies underneath and sometimes even in to the slab. At this point, they have options.

Using a lovely wet-vac, you need to extract all the liquid in the carpet and the pad, this can be accomplished by applying plenty of pressure with the wand or hose and do a little spot at a time. After you feel you have all of it up, you need to repeat the above steps using another gallon of 100% water to act as a rinse.

The first technique is to pour a gallon of 50% water and 50% vinegar (white) onto the carpet and let it set for a couple of minutes. The vinegar helps to break up the urine salts and fundamentally liquefy the dried urine. After, you let it set, you need to get it out. This is where a wet-vac comes in handy.

A second technique is of the more successful ways of dealing with the issue but also the most difficult. Using this technique, you will need to pull the carpet back (carpet is bound on the edges using a tact strip of nails) then cut out the soiled pad.

After the pad is removed, neat the soiled spot of the carpet with a lovely carpet shampooer, back and front. Also, you will need to treat the slab or wood sub floor with bleach then put in new carpet pad (can be bought at most huge boxes). Replace the soiled pad and use regular masking tape to tape the top of the new pad with the existing undamaged pad.

Last you need to put the carpet back on the tact by stretching it to the edges and pressing it back down onto the strips. This last technique is best if only used when the stain is near the edges of a room. If the stain is in the middle or near a doorway, you are going to have a hard time getting the carpet back in tight which will lead to it possibly wrinkling later on.