Does anyone know how to get urine stains and smell out of furniture?

Answer 1

Here is four ideas to help you get started....

ONE:
If the urine has actually soaked into the couch upholstery, you're pretty much out of luck because you'll never get deep enough to get it. For surface cleaning, vinegar and water is the best. Never use ammonia; ammonia is a component of urine and it will just encourage the animal to reuse the same spot.

TWO:
Spray it with hydrogen peroxide. let dry. Repeat if needed.

THREE:
Simply try some baking soda it seems to do the trick. Just sprinkle on, let sit overnight and vacuum up.

FOUR:
Get an enzymatic cleaner (Urine Gone, Nature's Miracle, etc.). Walmart has a couple of versions; just make sure it says somewhere on the bottle that it has enzymes. Then, the trick is to totally saturate the area and LET AIR DRY. Don't add cleaner, dilute it w/ water, or add any other substance. You have to leave it alone to let the enzyme action work and if the area was previously treated w/ some other type of cleaner, you may have to do several applications. You can buy urine gone w/ a black light that will light up the urine areas in the dark. It works well. As long as the area is still "lighting up", keep applying the enzymatic cleaner. Once the area no longer lights up, you can go back over it w/ cleaner if needed. (The urine gone can discolor carpets where sprayed but the spots come out completely w/ regular steam cleaning after the enzymatic cleaner had done it's work.)

To check out technique 4 go to Planet Urine: http://www.planeturine.com/dsp_furnitureupholstery.cfm


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Answer 2

You do not say if it is upholstered or wood? First, absorb any liquid by holding down a towel. Do not rub! Then wash with warm water and a mild soap, still not rubbing. If upholstered, follow with a vinegar spray. (test for colorfastness in a back out of sight spot, first.) I would use full strength. It will smell of vinegar for a few hours, but smell will go away. I have used on untreated wood. It darkened wood a bit, but the smell was gone.

Answer 3

there is a product sold in pet stores that is an odor eater, it actually consumes the bacteria that causes the smell, it is for pet odors but works on any kind of smelly stuff. it is a liquid and you just soak the affected area. hope this helps.

Answer 4

Sponge it with a soapy water solution several times and rub dry with a towel. Then spray Febreze.

Answer 5

Nature's Miracle.....