How do you get cat urine smell out of a linoleum floor.?
Question:MY CAT GOT JEALOUS WHEN A STRAY WAS LET IN A FEW MONTHS BACK. SHE PEED ON OUR KITCHEN FLOOR..AND WE BLEACHED IT FOR WEEKS..THINKING THAT WOULD WORK..TO NO AVAIL..WE CAN STILL SMELL IT. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE..PLEASE HELP. IT IS EMBARRASSING WHEN PEOPLE COME OVER. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP..WE CAN'T BLEACH IT MUCH LONGER..THE FLOOR IS GETTING CLEANER..BUT THE SMELL IS HORRID.
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Tear out the linoleum and replace it. Believe me, it's the only way. Oh, and turn your caps lock off, please.
It may be in the molding along a wall ... the bleach probably took out the pee on the floor. Also, did you put a few layers of future floor polish on top the freshly bleached floor? First I would look for other sources of the smell.
sounds like the urine got underneath the lino or was it beside a baseboard? In any case, there's no way that the smell is still in the lino itself after being bleached so many times.
You can use a vinegar and water solution OR a baking soda and water solution should do the trick just as well!
Go to Pet Smart, they have a cleaner that gets rid of urine smells, and it's organic. Good luck, use it on the cupboards also, they spray everywhere not just the floor.
Vinegar will neutralize cat or dog urine. Wet paper towels (white with no other color) till they are moist but not dripping and leave them on the spot for a few hrs. Normally you can simply wipe up the urine then mop with vinegar, but I am concerned that the bleach has somehow set the odor...so be patient and keep applying the vinegar to remove all traces of the urine smell. The vinegar smell will evaporate quickly once the paper towels are in the trash outside. Or you can steep some vanilla and/or cinnamon in a pot of water to mask the vinegar.
Hope this helps. :)
We have five cats and I can tell you its not easy, it sounds like it may have penetrated the sub-floor. linoleum tile should be removed and replaced, not to expensive and can be a great weekend diy, carpet I would first try to clean with straight ammonia and or the product seen of t.v. oxyclean. When you have the sub-floor exposed you will see how bad the damage really is. In one room we chose to cut out a section of the sub-floor it can be a particle board or real plywood and replaced it. In another room we painted the area after a good cleaning with ammonia and some time to dry we painted the stained area with a latex primer. The primer I would recommend is either brand KILLZ or DRYLOC. Both will eliminate the odor and protect the sub-floor from further stains. when the urine soaks into the wood sub-floor it stays there so replacing it or sealing it with said primers has worked for us.
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I really hate to break this to you but JBrooklynd's answer is the closest to the truth. That is the nature of cat urine.
You COULD take a whack at the baking soda and vinegar. There are also enzymatic cleaners that are helpful to an extent (they are not always entirely successful).
We had a tenant that had 3 cats that did not use the litter box AT ALL (she was there when we bought the house). We had to rip up EVERYTHING. The only change to the comment about using kilz paint to cover the sub floor, is that it needs to be the oil based one in order to be certain to seal the floor.
IF you are lucky the linoleum has not been permeated through to the subfloor and you don't have to paint the floor.
Kids N Pets, buy it at Target...soak and soak it, perhaps a kitchen towel soaked in it and laid on top of where the smell is coming from.
used this product to get cat urine smell out of a leather chair!!
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