Did you know...
A pet weighing 5 pounds will produce an average of 10 gallons of urine
a year. Stains seen on the surface of your carpet have been pulled
down into the pad due to gravity, and are usually 50% larger
underneath. Many urine deposits in a confined area can lock together
underneath the carpet and in the pad, giving you total urine saturation
in that particular area. Multiple deposits on top of each other not
only compound the urine saturation problem but also cause multiple
odors on top of each of other.
Uric salts in dry urine virtually stay moist forever. Foot traffic
over these urine deposits cause dirt to stick to these areas creating
dark brown, black spots in your carpet. Heat, humidity or unsuccessful
cleaning procedures can cause the uric salts to give off an ammonia gas
causing unpleasant odors. In addition, bacteria in the carpet and pad
from the urine are a health hazard. Whether your baby crawls on the
carpet or you yourself walk or lay on the carpet. Bacteria from the
urine can cause watery eyes sunisitis, or trigger allergies.
So, you've tried to cover up the odor by placing plug-ins in every
room. Now your house smells like a flower garden with a flavor of
urine mixed in. This sweet smell plug-ins ara a hazard to your
health. Your olfactory system is your smelling system and is triggered
by an odor or smell. The odor or smell tells your brain whether this
"is" a pleasant or unpleasant odor. The problem here is that your
olfactory system never shuts down as long as a smell is triggering it.
Therefore, once again, watery eyes, sinusitis and allergies may become
a part of your life until these sweet smelling things are removed from
your house.
Specifically dealing with urine, you have two choices to remove the
urine and the uric salts. Your first choice, you've probably already
tried, if your household cleaner came from the local pet store. This
would make that cleaner an enzyme. The enzyme'c optimum cleaning
ability is at a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. However, when
you purchase your product off the shelf, it was at a room temperature
of 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. This already put your chemical at a
below standard for giving you any kind of desired results. Now, if you
heat you enzyme product to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and apply it
liberally to your carpet so that it will saturate all the way through
the pad to the sub floor, the 140 degree temperature instantly drops
back down to that 80 to 90 degree temperature again. You will never
achieve optimum cleaning ability with your enzyme cleaner. In addition
to the temperature being a key factor and how well the product
performs, it must stay wet for a period of "36 hours".
So what is an enzyme anyway? It is a bacteria! It also has a powerful
perfume scent added to it. The idea is that the enzyme bacteria (good
bacteria) are supposed to eat up (ingest) the bad bacteria. Bad
bacteria come from urine, milk, or any organic substance that is
fermenting over time.
The enzyme (good bacteria) does not give consistent, complete results at any given time. The reasons are:
1. The temperature of the enzyme drops so severely that it loses it's strength to eat up the bad bacteria.
2. The enzyme dies prematurely before it has a chance to ingest the bad bacteria because it is not wet and dries out
3. Not enough of the enzyme product was used to actually overcome the bad bacteria.
Your second choice is to use Urine Be Gone. It liquefies urine and
uric salts on contact. Just mix it with hot tap water apply it
liberally to your urine problem. Blot it up with a towel or suck it up
from your carpet and pad, upholstery or mattress with the "Urine
Removal Tool". You will be impressed!
