Carpet Smells Like Urine

The gold standard method for cleaning carpets is a process called hot water extraction.

Carpet smells like urine.

In this method a significant amount of water and solution is applied to the carpet. Also never use vinegar or anything with ammonia. Pet urine leaves stains and a strong odor on the carpet. Even after a carpet cleaning the smell of pet urine may return.

This odor can linger throughout the entire room. When pets use the carpet as a bathroom the smell can really linger. Firstly most carpet cleaning uses water. Just like laundry carpet is a fabric and sometimes additional products are needed to remove odors.

There are a few possible reasons your carpet now smells like a wet dog. This is due to the gases released by the bacteria that are digesting the urine. The heat from the carpet cleaner actually embeds the urine smell and stain into the carpet thus making it worse. If any of the urine remains in the rug fibers it will continue to smell.

Only a select number of carpets out there do require these ingredients to work. This will only make it worse. Cleaned carpet now smells like wet dog. Depending on the cleaner that was used to remove the stain from the carpet the urine odor may remain after cleaning.

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. Once the urine has spread out treating it yourself is very difficult. If you are like me i always used the hottest water possible.