Carpet Cleaning For Pet Urine Stains and Odors: Carpet Cleaning Castle Rock Co

Carpet Cleaning for Pet Urine Stains

Pet urine can cause permanent damage to your carpets and upholstery fabrics. It can also create unhealthy indoor air quality. When urine is dispersed into a carpet or upholstery fabric, it has a pH of about 5 or 6, which is on the acidity side of the pH factor however when it  it dries it turns into a “alkaline” or to a high pH between 11 to 13 on the scale and becomes more difficult to remove. It is much easier to remove before it stains the carpet and upholstery.  The acidic level of the urine offers a perfect breeding ground for bacteria, which begin to flourish almost immediately. This bacteria is very harmful in the fact it releases ammonia gases into the air. In this original acid state the urine begins to oxidize and react with the carpet to create a color change, which is why the carpets start to show yellowing and this will become permanent if the urine is not removed before it dries. Some of this color altering can be attributed to the strong ammonia gases  that forms as the urine passes through bacterial and chemical changes and effecting your indoor air quality. If left untreated for weeks or months, depending on the ph balance, it will completely alter  the original dye structure, therefore causing permanent yellowing. Even if the urine deposits are removed, the damage to the dye structure may permanent.

 

Carpet Cleaning for Pet Odor

There are many elements to the odor  odors associated with urine. The first comes from bacteria that grows abundantly in dark warm places like in the carpets padding that will be a never-ending food source. A pets urine can feed the bacteria daily! This bacteria growth and breakdown of the urine creates amino acids in the carpets and padding. These  organic compounds will often work deep into the fibers to a point of becoming part of the fiber. This can present a unhealthy air quality.  The waste materials and gases from the decomposing urine create an unpleasant odor. When dried urine is remoistened, it gives off an ammonia gas. If smelled once it is seldom forgotten.

The second source of odor is chemical odor that is present even when the urine has been killed off.  This is why off gassing occurs when a pet enzyme treatment has been applied. It is necessary to kill odors from urine with a Bio-Modifier treatment. Urine also presents additional odor gassing when the humidity is high on rainy days. The salts and crystals that are left behind as the urine dries are hydrophilic and draw water to them. Dried urine slats are often referred to as  easy to smell in the humid time of year because the salts attract the moisture, the moisture evaporates the gases putting out a greater proportion of odorous ammonia gas into your home greatly affect your air quality for the worse. You must completely remove  the urine salts in and under the carpets and padding to get rid of the bacteria. That’s why cleaning existing urine spots WILL NOT remove any associated odor. In fact, it could INCREASE the odor in the air space for a temporary period of time. For Carpet Cleaning for Pet Stains and Odors Call TLC Carpet Care  in Castle Rock Co at 720.314.0178 you can also visit us at ticcarpetcare.net