What is the first rule when it comes to cleaning urine in carpets?
Any satisfactory deodorization process must include removing the source of odor. This is the first rule!Too many products marketed for “pet odor” problems are designed to kill off some of the gas producing bacteria that have occurred naturally in the contaminants. That, or disinfectants combined with “masking” scents that compete with the foul gases. In another approach a mineral, zeolite, is used to modify the ionic nature of and to adsorb free odor molecules (vapors). And we hear about agents that purportedly “encapsulate urine molecules”, but could never really determine just what this meant in terms of eliminating the odor’s source. As long as the source is still there, natural processes will eventually ensue and the odor will return.In our experience, we find all of these approaches to be temporary solutions at best. Nor can high -powered, state of the art cleaning equipment physically remove enough dried urine to change conditions much. Moreover, the superheated water used with t
