Sub Floor With Cat Urine

To cover the cat urine stained subfloor prior to installing a new pad and carpet.

Sub floor with cat urine.

Pesky pet accidents are more than a minor inconvenience. Deodorizing a subfloor that has been soaked with pet urine requires a two step approach. Cat urine stains left untreated can be expensive to fix. I am switiching to tile.

Until the cat urine odor is addressed it will announce itself every time you enter the house. Does regular house paint work to seal the floor. The best floor sealer for pet urine is a stain blocking primer. I had the exact problem.

You may be able to remove dog or cat urine that has soaked into the wood but some situations may require replacement of the subfloor. Keep pet urine cleaning supplies handy so you can nip this problem in the bud. Removing urine from subfloors takes elbow grease but the reward is a better smelling more sanitary home and a well behaved pet. I thought they were going to use kilz.

Cat urine has an unmistakable ammonia like pungent smell that permeates the room and can even extend to the rest of the house. In some cases it is impossible to get urine odors out of wood. When not cleaned up immediately pet urine stains and odors can seep below your flooring surface and into the subfloor. The urine can stain carpet and soak down to the wood subflooring.

I have been advised to pull up the particle board however there is a product killz or something like that that is supposed to mask the odor. The first step is to treat the subfloor with an enzymatic odor remover. I swear i can smell cat urine. If urine stains have set into the plywood subfloor you can treat it in the same way you would treat any subfloor.

My top layer of the sub floor was particle board and the urine caused the particle board to rise up in the areas peed on. How to treat a plywood subfloor for urine before new carpet is installed. As a cat owner it is natural that you love your cat. The result is ruined subflooring more cat accidents and terrible odor.

Pull up the carpet and pad and search the subfloor for urine stains. Lingering odors and stains permeate the room and are impossible to hide. After you allow the floor to dry out seal it with a subfloor sealer. As a homeowner with beautiful wood floors you like your floors too but cats and wood do not mix.

So to be safe cut out and replace the stained sections. When removing an entire room of carpet or flooring use the black light on the subfloor itself to locate pet urine stains and outline them with chalk or masking tape.