Note that some wood reacts and swells on contact with any liquid an issue that might already exist as a result of urine.
Images of cat urine on floor subflooring.
After you allow the floor to dry out seal it with a subfloor sealer.
Deodorizing a subfloor that has been soaked with pet urine requires a two step approach.
However the plywood subfloor in the closet of the second bedroom smells awful.
The urine can stain carpet and soak down to the wood subflooring.
Lingering odors and stains permeate the room and are impossible to hide.
If wood is good or floor is concrete you can use a subfloor sealer to prevent more damage.
Extremely saturated areas of your subfloor should be replaced if the wood has peeled or puckered.
Where the urine has pass below the top wood flooring.
I swear i can smell cat urine.
I thought they were going to use kilz.
And a couple folks said we didn t need to use any kilz on the subfloor at all and that if we weren t smelling dog pee puke then what we did so far was enough and just put on the.
Does regular house paint work to seal the floor.
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.
Depending on your cat s age and the type of flooring there are a number of different preventative and cleaning solutions.
Cat urine can stain wood floors and leave a pungent odor.
Painted nearly everything on the floor and baseboard area with bin primer.
In such a situation sanding the floor is the only option left for you to get rid of the stubborn cat urine.
Pesky pet accidents are more than a minor inconvenience.
And another one chimed in saying that we wasted our time doing any treatment and nothing would ever fix the urine odors and we should replace all the subflooring.
If urine stains have set into the plywood subfloor you can treat it in the same way you would treat any subfloor.
If you have a permeable wood surface gapped seams it is highly likely that the cat urine has penetrated into the wood.
The best floor sealer for pet urine is a stain blocking primer.
How to treat a plywood subfloor for urine before new carpet is installed.
The smelly component of dog and cat urine is uric acid and because cats tend to drink less than dogs the concentration of this noxious chemical is more concentrated making their urine more odorous when pet urine sinks into the subfloor and dries out the uric acid forms crystals that get reactivated by moisture and it s a rare subfloor that doesn t have a small amount of moisture in it.
I soaked it liberally with a good quality enzyme cleaner but it didn t do much i then put several coats of bin primer on it but if i put my nose down to the floor i can still smell it.
The first step is to treat the subfloor with an enzymatic odor remover.