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Jenn
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Jenn asked in Home & GardenCleaning & Laundry · 1 decade ago

Removing urine smell from carpet...?

My son still has accidents sometimes at night. We have a mattress protector, and he usually wears overnights to help him when he has accidents. But, when he does pee in his clothes, he just tosses them on the floor. It's just hard for him to remember to put them in the bathroom at 1 am. hahaha Anyway, now his carpet has that urine smell. I have steam cleaned it like crazy, but it hasn't really helped. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the smell? And please, no rude comments...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Clean the carpet with a solution of half water and half distilled white vinegar. Sometimes it helps if you sprinkle some baking powder over the soiled area first. It will smell like vinegar for a little while, but once that smell is gone, the urine smell should be long gone. It's important to treat the carpet a few inches AROUND the soiled area because the urine may have seeped into the carpet padding and spread further. Hope this helps!

  • 1 decade ago

    You lost me ... he should wear overnights every night, until this stops. Not after he has had an accident.

    My younger son had a hard time with this. Didn't start until after his skull was fractured by another kid with a golf club. Fortunately, no surgery, but he was doing some crazy urination things. Once i was standing in the house near the door and he walked in about 2 feet, whipped the puppy out and pissed on the floor right in front of me, like he didn't even see me, then proceeded back out the door without even saying a word.

    Yes, he had studies done, didn't get us anywhere.

    But the night urination went on until he was about 7 or 8 i would say. The accident happened when he was 5. He wore the night undies every night, even when spending the night somewhere (it was his secret, he would use the bathroom with his backpack, change into them and if he wet them, he would put them in a bag in the backpack for us to dispose of for him -- he never got caught and it worked out great). If he didn't wet them then he could use them again the next night -- they are not cheap.

    But that helped his confidence.

    Before that, we had the bed cover that had plastic on the back side, but i was doing a lot of laundry. I didn't like the situation and I didn't understand what the problem was. Kids pick up on that. So we started the nighties undergarments, and that took care of that. It was just something that we did and it didn't matter. It made it manageable, and then it just stopped in time.

    As far as the carpeting, I like to use Lysol 4 in One when my pets have an accident. It seems to work fine. I spray it on and let it set for a bit, then take a 'pet' towel and soak it up. It is a disinfectant too, so that is a benefit. Later, do the steam cleaning again.

  • 1 decade ago

    I found it best to create a baking soda and water paste. Rub it into the area and apply distilled white vinegar over it. Blot this up with clean white towels, and repeat it no more than two times. Follow that with a good rinsing of water, blotting up the moisture. It will smell like vinegar for a short time, but the urine smell should not come back.

    Source(s): My son is potty training and made the carpet smell a little.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    get your self some resolve for his room and spray it and you could even get some urine be gone it works really well and then shampoo the whole carpet .

    so your son isn't potty trained yet if not it sounds like it is time to start and if he is having trouble holding it at night or getting up and going to the bathroom durn the night maybe you should cut his drinking off at a certain time before he goes to bed and if it still happens wake him up before you go to bed and take him into the bathroom so he can pee before you go to bed and maybe do it in the morning to .

    good luck

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  • 1 decade ago

    OdorXit works wonders. Check it out http://tinyurl.com/372yqrq I used it once and got the mouse urine smell out of my house!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Warm soapy water to wash away excess urine, then dry it then sprinkle bicarbonate of soda over it and leave for an hour then vacuum.

  • 1 decade ago

    have you tried using those liquids that remove dog odor

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