After a long, tiring day at work, you come home only to have your nose bombarded by a terrible smell. You begin your investigation to find the source of the unpleasant smell, and, to your horror, this is your favorite rug mat. Your favorite dog attacked her while you were away. After further investigation, you will also find that it was not the only time your carpet was used as an interior bathroom. Now what are you doing? First, do not panic, I know that it is easy to say that it is not always easy to do. Take some COTTON Towels, do not grab any cleaning products or stain removers, just cotton towels.
Depending on whether your carpet is wool, synthetic, or another type of fiber, and if your carpet is knotted by hand, a hand tattoo or machine solution will decide how easy it is to remove urine from your carpet. These tips are at your own risk, since I do not know your exact type of carpet. Getting a professional WoolSafe urine cleaner is always better.
As for urine for pets, the older, the harder it is to get out of the mat. When you get a new puppy, it almost guarantees that they will urinate on your carpets, LOT. Do not wait until your puppy is fully trained to get a carpet. When you first notice that your carpet is used as a bathtub, it is professionally cleaned, and then, if you do not need to use the carpet, store it until your puppy is fully trained.
Another fact about your dog urinating on your carpet is when you catch them, this is probably not the first time they did. Depending on the type of construction, your carpet may be difficult to understand where your dog has cleared. The only real way to tell is to go down and smell your rug. Dogs, as a rule, love to urinate in the corners, in the middle of the carpet, if they are not covered with furniture, next to the legs of the furniture and the entrance doors. A round or oval spot of urine from a woman, and, of course, spray from a man.
When you find that your carpet is used as an interior bathroom, this is what you can do:
- If the urine is fresh, place a cotton towel on the floor under the urine and take a folded white cotton towel and blot the stain by stepping on the towel around the urine. When the towel becomes too wet, use another clean cotton towel and continue to move around the place until you feel more moisture on the towel. Check the towel under the rug to make sure it is too wet. Change the towel if necessary to protect your floor from urine.
- Now moisten the towel with water and rinse the top of the carpet where there was urine. NOT RUBLES your carpet in a circular motion. This leads to a constant distortion of the piles. Keep the urine spot wet until the next day you can get your carpet for a professional carpet cleaner.
- Do not wait days or weeks to get your carpet. The longer urine is in your carpet, the harder it is to remove. If you can't personally pick up a rug, see how to get the cleaners to pick it up.
When you have not seen your dog urinate on your carpet, but learn from the smell, or you move the mat and notice that your floor has signs of urine stains, you cannot do to fix the mat itself. When the urine is absorbed by your mat, and now it is dry, and any efforts you make using miracle bottle cleaners will completely destroy your valuable carpets.
The best and safest thing is to get it as soon as possible in the cleaners for cleaning the WoolSafe area. Anything you can try can ruin your carpet. Here, in the Luv-a-Rug cleaners in Victoria, Canada, we see carpets constantly being damaged during DIY (Do-It-Yourself) cleaning. It is not worth the hassle or expense to try to clean your carpet yourself when it comes to removing urine or for that most spills.
Whenever in doubt, call your professional rug cleaners.
Since there are more than enough articles written about DIY carpet and carpet cleaning, there are some things to avoid using on rugs:
- Baking soda, it can discolor woolen mats, and is not intended for use on carpets.
- Oxy sprays not designed for any type of carpet! (read the fine print on the bottle, the risk is all yours)
- Hang your rug with a power puck, you can make a bunch of textures change, your carpet deform or degrade your carpet to start falling apart
- Any cleaners or stain removers that are not WoolSafe, if they do not say anything about being safe for wool, they can cause irreparable damage to your carpets
- Ammonia, it is not intended for use on floor mats.
- Bleach and any cleaners with bleach not intended for use on carpets
Things that are safe to use on most spill mats:
- Water to loosen the area, not to wet the area. getting some wet floor mats
- Salt to absorb red wine spills and most wet spills; make sure it is plain white salt, not flavored salt.
- Oatmeal / Fast oats absorb wet spills
- Vinegar is mixed with water in 2 parts of water with vinegar in 1 part for urine on wool carpets or if your carpet paints dye easily
- A dry cleaning product called host sponge. Call carpet and carpet cleaners to buy this wet cleaner that absorbs dirt. Made from corn husks and citrus. It is designed to clean walls and walls and is safe for wool.
To help your dog start using your carpets as internal bathrooms:
- Sprinkle your carpets with Pepper when you first place them, either as a new rug or after cleaning it. Until the pepper gets wet, it will not stain your carpets, and you can release it in a couple of days. This is good to do when you get a puppy or a new dog in your home, and after moving to a new place.
- When you are leaving for a vacation and sitting at someone's home, roll up your carpets and put them in an unused room. Pets do not like it when their routines are confused, and when you are not there, they can act because of nature and urinate on your carpets.
Look at the floor where your rug covers and the backs of your rugs if you suspect they might have been baked. Whenever your dog stops following the usual routine in the bathroom, this may be due to the fact that they have found a comfortable place for your carpets.
There is no magic solution for removing urine at home. There are products that promise you excellent results, but most cover up the smell and are not made for each type of fiber used to make floor mats. It is best to have your carpets cleaned professionally as soon as you know that they have been deceived. Pets will always look for your rugs for their business, because they absorb like outdoors, even if you only have one carpet that they will target.
