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Carpet cleaner pet odor removal Santa Rosa… Is pet odor contaminating the air quality in your home? If so, you may need special carpet cleaning to get rid of offensive odors.
Where to Begin?
With pet odor removal carpet cleaning, the level of contamination will determine the approach needed to achieve satisfactory results.
One of the largest challenges when re-mediating a urine or bacteria-related odor is when ineffective attempts have been made prior to our arrival.
Sometimes these efforts actually make it difficult to find the source of the odor. If this is the case, we will suggest a sub-surface inspection in order to get an accurate evaluation on what is needed.
For pet odor removal Santa Rosa based Extraction Plus beings with an inspection in order to get an accurate evaluation on what is needed.
Where to Start with Pet Odor Removal Santa Rosa
It is always best if you find a spot to simply blot the moisture and let it dry. This will allow us to more easily isolate the problem. If you are using any cleaning agents, be sure that they are SPECIFICALLY MADE FOR REMOVING URINE and follow the directions carefully.
Urine can become a breeding zone for bacteria. If necessary, we will advise to lift the carpet and take a look at the carpet backing pad and sub floor to determine the appropriate course of action.
About the Carpet Inspection
The odor removal inspection is intended to inform the owner or tenant of their options regarding odor removal. In order to evaluate the proper approach a thorough pre-cleaning inspection is required.
By using an UV (ultraviolet) lamp, we can determine the source of the contamination. Discovering the cause of the odor can help prevent ineffective treatments.
If your carpet odor is caused by pets and the pet byproducts have not saturated the carpet pad, a simple steam cleaning and pet deodorizer will often do the trick.
However, if your carpet odor is caused by bacteria, steam cleaning may actually make the odor worse by spreading the bacteria throughout the carpet without killing it.
Sometimes the only option for a successful removal is to repeat the procedure until better results are discovered.
If the operator feels that a surface treatment will not be sufficient, then they will suggest a further inspection of the materials. (i.e. – looking underneath carpeting to investigate levels of saturation or inspecting walls and trim boards etc.)
Urine Stain Removal
A stain left behind from urine is considered an organic dye, and the tannins in urine vary from animal to animal. Once the urine dries, it requires special chemistry to break that chemical bond.
Sometimes success is achieved on the first attempt, but stain removal often takes multiple attempts.
Some stains cannot be removed because they have been made permanent by improper attempts, so stain removal is not guaranteed.
Pet Odor Removal Service on Hard Surfaces
Hard surfaces can also be vulnerable to odor-causing bacteria. A porous surface can harness bacteria that—without proper cleaning—can seem impossible to remove.
What’s the best approach to pet odor removal Santa Rosa? Hot water extraction is the best way to deep clean hard surfaces. When treating odor in grout, wood or concrete, we use a wet process of soaking out the bacteria and odor-causing elements using anti-microbial products. Please feel free to ask about the material safety data sheet as we always keep those on hand.
Once the product has soaked into the pores, we use high temperature, high pressure water (1000 psi) and 16 inches of mercury to extract the surface. The antimicrobial treatment also impregnates the surface and can prevent re-growth for up to 2 years. Please call for further information about this service.
Pet Odor Removal Options
Odor Caused by Proteins
(Example: greases, milk, egg etc.) When working with food-related odors, our approach is to metabolize the proteins and greases with a specialized enzyme. In this scenario we apply a product from CTI called Prozyme. Prozyme is a bio-digester and degreaser.
This product utilizes citrus enzymes to break down and metabolize the proteins in the carpet. After the product has had 30-45 minutes of dwell time the next step is a thorough rinse and extraction with a neutralizing formula. This process when properly done is very effective for most food related odors.
Odor Neutralizer
(Example: cigarette smoke, dog oils etc.) Neutralizers use odor-paring molecules to neutralize odor-causing elements. This product is not considered a masking agent.
Neutralizers can be added to cleaning solutions, used to clean hard surfaces and can be a nice post-treatment after the hot water extraction process.
This product works best at removing smoke odors caused by cigarettes or a house fire.
When treating smoke odors, the product is applied before the cleaning process then reapplied as a post-treatment.
The fragrant smell of the neutralizer will be present while the product is working its chemistry. After the product is no longer noticeable, the odor elements have been neutralized and shouldn’t be present anymore.
Surface Deposits
(Example: small urine spots – surface only)
Here’s how we approach pet odor removal Santa Rosa… Following is how we treat surface deposits of urine that have not saturated the carpet backing, carpet pad or subfloor. These spots are generally small. They can typically be handled with a topical treatment of U.P.T. (urine pretreatment) which breaks the alkaline bonds of the urine and neutralizes the PH. Then a specialized enzyme is applied to metabolize the rest of the urine.
Carpet Sanitizer – Bio Enzymatic Encapsulant
In order for bacteria to grow and flourish, it requires both moisture and a food source. The bio-enzymatic product we use is applied similarly to the odor neutralizer. It is applied both pre and post cleaning. The final application is intended to continue metabolizing throughout the drying process.
The product is applied at proper concentrations and left for up to an hour before extraction. While the carpet dries, the chemistry continues to work. Once the carpet has dried, it can be occupied. This process increases the amount of time it takes for the carpet to dry by up to 12 hours. After the carpet has fully dried, it must be vacuumed, sine this is an encapsulating product that requires removal after treatment is complete.
Subsurface Extraction – Oxidizer
When urine has saturated the carpet backing and pad the next level in, odor removal is required. The process of sub-surface extraction includes the application of a high temperature oxidizer to saturate the affected areas.
Dwell time of up to 30 minutes is required for this process to complete its chemistry. With heavily saturated padding and or tack strips, we will suggest replacing the affected materials. Also, if the subfloor has been affected, then it too needs to be cleaned and treated to kill the bacteria in the wood. Specialized sealers are then used which contain enzymes that will continue to break down urine deep in the wood surface.
Sub-Surface Inspection
If the volume of the urine is too great to remove using surface treatments or the odor is related to a bacterial growth under the carpet, then it is imperative to perform further inspection. The best surface inspection cannot tell you what lies underneath the carpet and pad.
A thorough inspection requires that the carpet be uninstalled (lifted). Due to the work involved in this process, we charge an inspection fee that varies depending on what is required. If services are rendered, we will apply the inspection fee towards the cost of the job.
Material Removal and Replacement – Carpet Pad and Tack Strip
If we determine that the carpet needs to be uninstalled, then we can evaluate which materials are cleanable and which materials need to be replaced. We will also be able to estimate how many square feet of sub floor require sanitizing and deep cleaning.
In addition, any pad that has been affected must be replaced since pads cannot be cleaned. Tack strip that has been saturated must also be removed and replaced.
Finally, if the carpet has a latex backing that is saturated with urine, we can make attempts using oxidizers to dissolve the urine. But once absorbed, the urine can bond to backing, making it impossible to remove. Let me help you determine how to move forward.
Sub-Floor Cleaning and Sealing
Once the affected materials have been identified and either cleaned or replaced, we can take a look at the sub-floor. Wood and concrete sub floors are porous and can easily house bacteria and mold. We clean using antimicrobial sanitizer and hot water extraction with specialized hand tools to clean hard surfaces.
Once the floor has dried, we use a thick latex sealant that utilizes odor neutralizers and enzymes. This product continues to work over time. During humid periods, it is reactivated providing further counteracting properties that can kill bacteria if it grows back.
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