Topic: Need advice please how do you get dog urine smell out of a unit.

Need advice please, how do you get dog urine smell out of a unit. We have painted walls, ceilings, pulled up flooring and quarter round and tac strip and sealed floors with kilz, put down new vinyl. Ran air deodorizer in unit overnight last night. Running ozone machine in tonight. Still smell it! Help please!

   

ozone, duct cleaning

Brittany Brittany doing this overnight.

Elaine Bishop I reccommend running the ozone for several days

Brittany Brittany awesome! Thanks! Move in on Friday, think it will fix it in time?

Elaine Bishop ouch! I hope so. You can always run it overnight, then let it air out and smell it, and run again if needed

Elaine Bishop Ozone machines need 2-3 days to really get rid of bad smells

Charcoal

Vicki Hurley how do you use charcoal?

Elaine Bishop you can get a charcoal air filter

Elaine Bishop I think you put it in a bucket and it draws out the odor. This is from long ago.

Were the floors treated with an enzyme killer before they were sealed? The seal wont take if the urine wasnt first neutralized!

Eric Rivera yes

Is it cat urine? If so, Goodluck. I have never been successful with cat urine. It will always have a "smell" to it.

Denise Philmon Thompson it's dog urine

Denise Philmon Thompson dog urine is just as bad; just a different odor.

Geeze Louise cat urine is impossible. I have had success with dog but, depends on severity.

Flush......the........toilet.

Get duct work professionally cleaned!

Meghan Jo then use a deodorized “duct bomb”. We had to let a unit sit for months to finally get the smell gone.

If there was any urine behind the baseboards you may need to do a flood cut. We had this happen once and the urine had went behind the baseboards and the drywall absorbed it. It wasn't until we did the flood cut that it went away.

Oil base kilz

Scentsations in the paint and primer

Sometimes you need to locate where the urine is. Ive had to pull and replace tack strip where urine has soaked in. Another thing weve had to do is cut out the drywall where the concentration of urine is. Like cat spray etc. Weve even had to replace doors etc because the doors and bifold doors soak the smell in the wood. Then after all that is done the entire unit needs scrubbed down top to bottom, possibly including replacing linno and carpet as that holds the smell. Then u can try an ozone

Ron Carmean pulled up all tack straps and replaced vinyl

Elaine Bishop the smell must be coming feom somewhere else. Maybe a section of drywall that needs to be cut out. We even had where the 2 x 4 wall plate was soaked in urine along with tje front door to the apartment the cat sprayed. We had to replace the entire front door.

Ron Carmean yep, I have had to do that as well as replace cabinets due to a lady living in a unit with like 20 cats. How mgmt allowed that, I have no idea. I got there after the lady had moved out. It was horrible.

Our pest control company had a machine that we ran in an apartment for several days. It isn't an ozone machine. I was told these machines are used in some compactor areas.

Celena Montantes - Mayo we have one running tonight

Elaine Bishop We used that and had to replace floorboards and everything, even then it was tough, after a few months it all went away but it was a while. I would enter the unit and the urine smell would stay like, in my nose for days. I am sorry you are having to deal with that.

Tamara Sanchez thank you

Elaine Bishop follow up and tell us how it goes. Yuck

HD sells concentrated vinegar bythe gallon in the store here (SoCal) I've sprayed it undiluted it works great

clean your ducts and registers

You need to pull up and replace baseboards

Go to pet supply and get skunk odor remover. It does wonders.

Debra Leazenby sounds great!

Pet sealPet sealPet sealand ozonator

You sealed the floor by painting it? Ozone the apartment

James Rogers flooring was sealed with Kilz

Oh man, oh no. Replace the tack strips, put scent additive in the paint and ozone. I've been in a condemned unit like this but it wasn't from pet urine

Clean the concrete

Robin LaGrone we already sealed it

That all needs to come out … its never going to come out when its that bad.

Additionally, call your insurance company and perhaps you can do a claim for vandalism or something.

Use a black light to locate the affected areas. Pull/rip /demo affected areas and rebuild (subfloors, drywall , etc )

RestorAir machine is the answer. Run for 29 hours with the AC fan set to on. If the smell isn’t gone, it will be isolated to whatever the source is. Remedy the source and run another 24 hours. You’ll be good to go from there.

Nature's Miracle Urine Destroyer. Get the gallon jugs with a battery powered sprayer and spray everything. I had to do that at my house when I moved in. It had soaked into the concrete basement floor. I soaked it with Nature's Miracle and let it sit overnight. Did it again. Spread vinegar all over it and let it dry. Then used Kilz stuff that seals in floor. Not all Kilz is created equal. It's really strong smelly stuff, not like the Latex. After that it has been okay. On wood floor I just used Nature's Miracle and then Kilz sealer. That worked for me and the smell was very strong when I first moved in.

Stephanie Kochis where do you find it?

Elaine Bishop Nature's Miracle is in any pet store and I got Kilz at Hime Depot. You can probably get it on Amazon as well. They have different formulas. Urine Destroyer is the strong one for urine smells.

Use a black light to see where the actual ‘smell’ is coming from. It may be in the sheet rock!!

I’ve seen it so bad that we had to use a concrete grinder to that off the top layer of concrete….

Did you change out bottom part of dry wall and or check inside cabinets?

Joanne Schlueter cabinets are fine, it seems to be in the bedrooms

Elaine it still could be in the dry wall .

Hot fog the vents

Your carpet company likely has a black light have them go up the walls and see how far the urine goes.

Seal with pro block

So people think that all kilz is the same and it couldn’t be further from the truth.

Yikes. You have done everything’s I would have recommended. If you haven’t. Try changing the filter and run the ac a bit to circulate the air then change the filter again. You may need addition Kilz on the floor (extra coats).

Thompson’s water seal in Pine-Sol spray it over the concrete or gypsum it will seal the Odour into the concrete

it’s the only thing that works really well.

Pet urine and smoke.....tough to get rid of

Remove all of molding too…

Have all duct work thoroughly cleaned as well as the coil also what Jason Frotten said

Ozium

There is this stuff, odor blocker. We had to put in room on concrete floors... can't remember nane.

Replace the furnace filter now. And again after the ozone. Next time start with the filter.

Don’t forget to hit your ac ducts and coils, fridge, stove, washer/dryer- anything really. Everything needs to be cleaned. Pet urine can be just as bad as smoke.

Kilz it

Kilz will not get the smell out you need to have a carpet company seal the floor with a special chemical just for pets it will neutralize the odor you will need an Ozone machine for at least 48 hours. Then you go get coffee beans put them through the unit as they will help absorb the smell I would get a product called angry Orange you can by on Amazon this product is awesome. It will take you at least 14 days

I agree-Angry Orange works.

Probably in the baseboards and drywall. I have had units that had to be cut half way up the sheetrock and patch and replace baseboards. Also, Odoban soaking by the gallon before sealing concrete.

Kelly Green Simpson I second this. Once had to take an interior stairway out of a townhouse unit. Plus 36" of drywall.

Kelly Green Simpson I third this!

Kelly Green Simpson agreed!!

this!! Pull that lower Sheetrock. If you still smell it it’s somewhere you haven’t treated yet.

There is some stuff you can buy at Home Depot and as a property management company owner, asset manager and precious regional this stuff has never let me down. I have lost the name of it but if you go in and ask they can take you right to it. You can’t pit on carpet as you have to basically roll it in like paint however it is clear. It works

Check baseboards. Might have to be replaced if animal peed on them

Check patio door track

Poor bleach all over the floor, let it sit for a couple hours, wipe it all up, and then wipe it down several times and it should all kill everything

Shannon Gee bleach and pee will cause an chemical reaction that is deadly. It’s very dangerous. It makes chloramine gas. Please be careful when bleaching urine which is ammonia.

Zissner instead of kilz, odor ghost. Most likely in the drywall.

Clean the air ducts make sure all air filters have been replaced

Pull that shit up and replace it!! I wouldn't live there!

That poor doogie (s)

Vinegar and baking soda

All of that did not happen in a few accidents. Report the owners to your county animal control for them to do a welfare check on the dog at whatever forwarding address they gave you. The owner clearly is not allowing the dog outside to relieve itself, and no animal should be forced to live in it’s own excrement! People should not own pets if they are going to abuse them. Sad.

Alison Benton My thoughts exactly. This is an incredibly irresponsible owner who has neglected their pet. Very sad.

Fire odor bombs

We had to cut dry wall and seal wall studs as it had seeped up into them, we replaced all closet doors and cleaned all tracks or replaced them, new trim, cleaned vents, any surface a dog could pee on was treated including cabinets. We almost stripped it to bare bones

I read the comments. We had a dog....Urine heavy Urine smell...best thing ever is a sealant that any paint company, lowes, home depot sales. We did not pull up anything and we did not cut out drywall as many comments suggested (we tried the sealant first before doing that) on the walls and floor. It is very expensive for just a gallon..we needed a 5 gallon bucket. This was in 2017 and cost was $200 plus back then. IT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED! We then painted the walls and replaced the padding and carpet and the smell completely gone! Unbelievable but it worked! FYI before that we spent a lot of $$$ wasting our time on things that worked for a day or so. This lasted and really worked! Sorry i do not remember the name but if you go to tge stores mentioned, they will know. Do not buy tge cheap products...Good luck...

You could have the floor treated. Most carpet cleaning companies can do this. We've had success in doing this.

Pull the baseboards, guarantee it's behind there. We have had to do that a few times.

In the drywall and baseboards,we have also killed the floor but also sealed the floors with poly urethane after killing dried

Also did you replace the baseboards? Dogs usually pee at the base of the wall so the drywall and baseboards get soaked with urine, painting over it doesnt cure that.

It's likely seeped through to the subfloor. Pull up all flooring and see if the subfloor is stained - if so, remove it. Covering with deodorizers and kilz will never get rid of the smell.

Replace

Enzymatic cleaner works real well. It's chemically better than vinegar.

there is this stuff called Biocide that you can order on amazon. it is truly amazing

Oil prime x 2 coats

Yes I have treated a unit like a flood unit took two feet of sheet rock out and removed the underlayment.

We recently had this and $30k later, the smell is gone. The subfloor, baseboards, and anything that came in contact with the urine had to be removed. We put shalack on the walls and repainted everything. The baseboards were wet with urine. It took us 3 weeks to repair the unit.

Is you have done all that. The sheet rock may have to be cut out 4 ft high and replaced. I had one that I had to do that to. Let’s hope the ozone works.

Vinegar

Did you clean the ducts?

Jessica DeLano what a nightmare!!

That's alot of pee, it's soaked into the subfloor, to remove the smell youd have to remove the subfloor (gypcrete, wood, etc)

Just had this, we tried everything.
Then totally saturated the pee areas with vinegar and then sealed it with shellac