[Ian Rochester]

I need some advice on how to get rid of the smell of cat urine.  I went to survey a job yesterday for a large estate who we do a lot of business for, mainly carpet cleaning and window cleaning.

They have a house which has just been vacated and the place is STINKING with cat urine.  We have ripped all the carpets out but they were foam backed ones and when we lifted them the backing stayed stuck to the concrete and wood flooring!

We have now scraped off all the foam backing from the floors and I intend to sand all the floors back to remove the remnants of foam.

However, even with the carpets out and the backing lifted, the place still stinks to high heaven and you can see the urine stains in the actual flooring. 

Does anyone have any idea of what can I use to get rid of this smell, do I need to reseal the floors?  Has anyone come across this type of thing before? 

The owner is keen to get this back on the market asap so we have been given free rein to get it sorted as whatever cost, without having to replace all the floors!!

Any help would be appreciated

[Gavin Reardon]

HI all

I have answered this in the carpet cleaning section

[pointer]

I have heard citronella oil is the stuff for the job.

[Dave Ingram]

Pour Vodka on it trust me it works, a bit expensive but it works

[Ian Rochester]

Cheers Guys, but both of these look a bit on the expensive side, I have approx 60 sq mtrs of flooring to treat.

We have applied a bio enzyme treatment to the flooring today, which is supposed to destroy/eat the "bad" bacteria/odour, I  intend to give it another two treatments over the next week, will let you know how it goes.