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We at OdorXit, though our help line and on our own rental properties,
have come across situations of contamination that were so bad that extreme
measures had to be employed.
In a recent case, a
room with only pine tongue and grove boards for flooring was
severely contaminated with cat
urine over many years. Washing the
flooring with
TSP
several times did not stop the urine salts from
appearing on the surface after the boards were dried. Further, applying
several doses of OdorXit did reduce but did not eliminate the odor in the
room. Using the step-by-step method of solving a problem, the owner
removed several of the boards that were stained the worst only to find
that the rafters and ceiling below were also badly contaminated with
urine that ran between the boards. In this case it was clear
that saving the floor boards was not a cost effective
solution. Saving the rafters and ceiling material and replacing
some or all of the contaminated flooring was clearly the prudent
solution. So in this particular case a 4' x 4' section of flooring was
removed. The rafters and ceiling were sprayed several times with OdorXit
solution. After the odor was gone for a week the flooring was replaced
with plywood of the same thickness as the boards that were removed and the
restoration of the room was completed.
Another example of extreme contamination involved
one of our apartments. In this particular case the carpeting
and padding was old and not worth saving for other reasons. The
apartment had been vacant for repairs for nearly 2 months before we
removed the carpeting in question. The back of the carpet in some
heavily contaminated areas was still wet with urine! The padding was unusual in that
it was foam padding with a plastic membrane with small breather holes on the
carpet side. It appears that this plastic trapped most but not all of
the urine between the top of the padding and the back of the carpet. We could
have dumped a quart of OdorXit solution directly on the area and not gotten
all the smell out. Additionally, the carpet backing in these wet areas was
so weak that when it was removed the backing split easily. The flooring under the
wet areas was sprayed with OdorXit 1:32 . The next day, the urine
smell was gone and it has not returned.
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