how to clean cat piss and litter off tile floor?
Litter box with taller sides may help them stop tracking it out of the box. You can also put the litter box on top of a large plastic mat. Lay down paper towel, wet thoroughly w/ water, cover w/ newspaper. After a couple hours, the litter should be soft enough to scrape off easily. It takes some scrubbing with the clumping litters. Spray any smelly, pee-stained areas w/ bleach:water 1:4 solution. You may even want to put down paper towels, soak w/ bleach-y water and leave overnight. (Note: NEVER mix bleach & ammonia.) Not a bad idea to do this twice. If the pee has soaked through to the underlayment, you want the bleach to soak through to the underlayment. Let it dry out. Now spray any pee-stained areas w/ white vinegar. Again, put down paper towels, soak w/ vinegar and leave overnight. Not a bad idea to do this several times. If the pee has soaked through to the underlayment, you want the vinegar to soak through to the underlayment. Cat pee has an extremely strong odor, and it’s hard
I recently had good luck getting up a terrible amount of cat pee off a tile floor with vinegar and baking soda. Supposedly Nature’s Miracle does a cat urine specific product which I haven’t tried but I used a ton of the regular stuff and could still smell the pee. With the vinegar, I rubbed the whole area down (after cleaning with water) focusing on ground and edges (blech) and then sprinkled baking soda and let it bubble up. I used an old toothbrush to scrub at the grout then I left it for about six hours. Cleaned it up with water and the smell is gone.
Murphy’s Oil Soap, a mop, a bucket, elbow grease. I have a horrible hellbeast of a cat (she is better now) who was abused prior to her adoption and peed all over any smooth surface and refused to use a litterbox or go outside for YEARS. This included hardwood and tiled surfaces. Luckily she had a predilection for the bathtub in our previous apartment but in the new place she really liked using the tiled hallway between the stairs and our laundry machines. Combined with my laziness, complete disgust, and emotional distress, often things would dry up or sometimes she would start using her boxes and I wouldn’t notice she had also peed on the tile again, and things dried for ages, doing that disturbing crystallization thing that cat pee does. ::shudder:: The only thing that works, quickly and effectively, that actually breaks down that crystal structure and makes the surface something that
Spackle knives are good for scraping, but our tile’s not incredibly worth preserving, so we’ve not got to be careful or gentle. Vinegar and Nature’s Miracle For Cats are both very good cleansers for cat messes, in my experience (though I’ve seen NMFC bleed color from wool rugs). I’ve used borax before when I need to soak up messes or scrub around, but that’s not really what you’re after. Do you have one of those wiry grout brushes from Target? Could get you started. Most of all, for the future, get one of those rubber litter mats to roll out under the boxes, or even just newspaper you pick up and replace fairly often. Preventing clay litter from gumming up the actual tile in the first place is going to be the best tactic. Litter mats can be hosed off pretty easily. You could give scoopable Feline Pine a try, failing everything else; it clumps, but is more like sawdust than cement, when soaked. It doesn’t work in our litter boxes, but I liked the natural pine scent far better than any g
