Dog pee in carpet

[alanarmo]

What is the best way of cleaning carpets when dogs have had misshaps on them? My son has just moved into a new house and the previous owners left the carpets for them (very kind!) Unfortunatly, the dogs must have been slightly incontinent. Is it true that soda water is a good method?

[Blackthorn]

I think the soda water only works when the pee is fresh. The problem you have, as I see it, is that any visiting dog will treat the carpet as a 'lamp post' and add his contribution. Would a good professional clean not do the trick?

[Lakitu]

^ agreed. Or hire a carpet cleaner?

[ELVIS68]

Either buy a new carpet or have an accident with a tin of paint and claim on the insurance

[Blackthorn]

Rather a drastic solution, binning what might be a very expensive carpet, and considering the guy has just moved in he's probably skint.

[ELVIS68]

Expensive and covered in dogs pee....all well and good cleaning it, what about the underlay and floorboards?

They`ll still chuck up no matter how many times the carpet`s cleaned

[alanarmo]

Thanks for the help folks. It looks like a pro job might be the first move then.

[sleepyj]

get rid yuck !!

[sleepyj]

pets at home do a cleaning liquid for cleaning animal mess ,

[chazza]

Our dog peed on the carpet once and we tried everything to get rid of it and the smell (with it being a male dog it was rotten).

The only thing that took the smell away was getting it professionally cleaned, which cost about �45 for a 20 square foot room.

However the stain never came out and we've just had to replace the carpet with wooden floors. This may have been (at least partly) due to us following someone's advice to clean it with biological washing powder in water which stained the carpet more! So definitely don't try that

[alishalexy]

well I am in the process of getting rid of all my carpet to save on electric, hoovering and dog hair picking up. Its much better and hygienic to get rid of bit by bit. You could go for flooring on the sales and go for the type you can take with you when you move. I am putting in cork flooring myself which is warm underfoot and less noisy than wood.
Someone is selling on ebay at mo for 12.99 m2 but thats has some flaws in it. Other places are 23.99. It took me forever to hoover. Think of it as an investment in the long run in electric saving yet spending on floor.
Doing the passage in a week when the flooring arrives. I can't afford it but think of it as a long term investment which will pay off.
Dogs always have their moments even when they are trained they have the odd accident and vomit now and again. Start of small and build up. Uniclick types are easy to move when you need to. I sold my expensive carpet on the net really cheap. They took the carpet underlay and even the old grippers. They even moved it all for me and offered to place the furniture back where I wanted.
Anyway good luck.
Oh if you decided to go for flooring do the scratch test and get samples. If you scratch it really hard with your nails and no marks it passes.