Our new house smells like cat urine.... HELP!!!?

Question

In one bedroom, it just reeks. I have ripped up the carpet, but it still smells. I don't want to put new carpet down until the smell is gone. What can I do?

Answer 1

The previous owners of our house let their cat use every room as its litterbox! It was horrible.

The smell could be in your wood. You could replace it, but you dont have to. Just get KILZ brand sealant and seal the floor where the smell is. This keeps the smell from coming back up thru the floor. Then clean the carpet really well to get the smell out of it. I use lysterine on the carpet. It neutralizes odor and its non toxic. Only use the regular, not the blue color.

Answer 2

Buy a black light - Spencer gifts is a good place. Go in there after dark and check out the walls, floor and vents. Assume that anything that glows is urine. Get an enzymatic cleaner and focus on those spots.

If there is a lot of urine on the drywall you may need to replace it. Painting over it will not hide the smell. You would probably only need to replace the bottom half of the wall.

You may need to replace some of the sub-floor too. I lived in a place that had serious cat pee issues. It ain't pretty.

The key is this: Do NOT move anything into that room until the cat pee smell is gone. It will permeate everything you put in there.

See another answer I gave a couple of weeks ago.

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Answer 3

You will want to clean it really well w/an enzyme cleaner. tdry completely, hen before you put down new carpet, treat the floor with KILZ - it's a barrier (like paint for the floor) that helps keep odors and moisture from getting up through the floor.

Answer 4

If this is a brand new house, scream to the builder. If not, the urine is in the walls or floor. Try spraying white vinegar on to the area. You can do it to the carpet too.
Professional cleaning supply companies sell enzyme cleaners. They are used to clean up after many BAD odors. If you try this, be sure to follow directions.

Answer 5

Your first call should be to your insurance agent to see what they can help you with. If you don't have insurance, you should call a recovery cleaner to see how much it will cost to have them fix it. You don't say what the flood was from, so it could be any number of things that are smelling including your suspicions about mold. This is really not a good DIY project.

Answer 6

Your best bet is to clean those floors with enzyme cleaners sold at pet stores.

If you try any household cleaners you have, do not use anything that has ammonia in it as that will intensify the smell of urine.

Though you may have to rip out the floor and redo the subfloor completely.

Good luck!

Answer 7

It might be under the baseboards. Have you ripped it up to the bare floor? If so, can you find the specific area where the odor is?

You can use one of the enzyme odor removers made for cat urine. They really work.

Answer 8

You can try an enzyme cleaner from a pet store, but like the others said, it's probably in the baseboards and/or subfloor so you may have to replace those to eliminate it.

Answer 9

vinegar and water spray it all around the room and kinda wipe up after about an hour it will kill the smell and no other cat will go around the area.

Answer 10

I moved in to a house that had the same problem. find the source. In my house it had soaked into the hard wood floors and down in to the floor boards. Everything that it had soaked in to had toi be replaced. It was very expensive