Steam cleaning urine is a bad idea. The heat will cause it to bind to the carpet even better and make it even harder to get rid of.
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Hellbrewer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You can rent rug doctor steam cleaners, it wasn’t expensive. They have locations listed on their website. www.rugdoctor.com/rent/ We did every rug in our house before we moved in. It was amazing the amount of dirt that came out of clean looking rugs.
BasicTraveler@kbin.social 11 months ago
pixel_witch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I may do this. We were also thinking of getting a professional in to do it for the first time since we don’t want our dog to think peeing inside is okay though she is house trained. But a rug doctor sounds far more affordable.
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
You honestly might want to replace the carpet. The carpet and pad and possibly the subfloor may be urine soaked. You can paint the subfloor with a smell blocker and then put in new pad and carpet. It’s a lot more expensive but then you know what you are getting. Also carpet doesn’t have a huge lifetime (depending on the material and quality) so if it’s 10+ years it might be at its age limit.