Carpet Smells Like Urine

Pet urine leaves stains and a strong odor on the carpet.

Carpet smells like urine.

Firstly most carpet cleaning uses water. When pets use the carpet as a bathroom the smell can really linger. There are a few possible reasons your carpet now smells like a wet dog. This will only make it worse.

In this method a significant amount of water and solution is applied to the carpet. The gold standard method for cleaning carpets is a process called hot water extraction. The only thing that helps the smell of dried urine is to seal the subfloor with a shellac or polyurethane and then proceed to either put new carpet or in my case ceramic tile down nothing will totally get the smell of urine out of a carpet or a subfloor other than throwing it away or sealing it up. This is due to the gases released by the bacteria that are digesting the urine.

The odor also attracts your pet to that same spot which could lead to more accidents on the carpet. The heat from the carpet cleaner actually embeds the urine smell and stain into the carpet thus making it worse. Cleaned carpet now smells like wet dog. Only a select number of carpets out there do require these ingredients to work.

Even after a carpet cleaning the smell of pet urine may return. Also never use vinegar or anything with ammonia. Once the urine has spread out treating it yourself is very difficult. If you are like me i always used the hottest water possible.

With urine problems you need pet odor neutralizer that is designed to kill the bacteria and break down the ammonia. If any of the urine remains in the rug fibers it will continue to smell. Depending on the cleaner that was used to remove the stain from the carpet the urine odor may remain after cleaning.