You may be wondering why I am posting a picture of a piece of clean looking carpet that is lying on a driveway. I wanted to shake things up a bit and post the after picture first in order to be well, dramatic. This carpet has had about 6 months of use on it, and judging from this picture, one would have to agree that it looks like lightly used, yet clean looking carpet. The story behind this carpet in a nutshell is that this is out of a rental town home in Alpine, Wyoming. This rental had renters in it for about 6 months and these renters allowed some pets to totally trash the place. There was cat and dog feces, urine, and vomit. Not to mention the traffic areas that were ground into the fibers with greasy foot soils to boot! Now that I have painted the picture of what it looked like, let me describe how it smelled. When you walked into this town home rental, the smell was so pungent and sour that there was no mistaking that is was cat damage. There were some doggy deposits too, but somehow cats really take the cake when it comes to pet odors in carpet. It really took your breath away when you walked through the front door. It is hard to describe the smell, but it was in the top three of nasty odors for me the first time I went in.
The shot of the damaged carpet with all manner of pet damage before the total restoration we performed.
Here is another angle of this piece of pet damaged carpet. Keep in mind that this carpet has only had about 6 months of use on it. Now the obvious question is why is it out on the driveway? This piece is out of the living/dining/hallway area on the main level. The urine damage was so severe that the carpet padding was saturated and had to be thrown out. We even took steps to seal the wooden sub-floor with a special pet barrier odor coating that is applied to the floor. This barrier is the most effective product that I have found for blocking the smell of urine thus saving the additional cost of tearing out the wood. It works better than KILZ, although that would be better than nothing at all. I always tell our clients that have pet damage that if we can clean/restore the carpet at less than 65% of the cost of replacing it then it is cost-effective. After measuring the place and doing the math, the client decided to let us try it. I told her that if at anytime during this process we felt that it was a lost cause I would only charge her for the cost of the chemical and I would eat the labor. With that in mind, I wanted to pull out all the stops on this one. After inspecting the carpet and determining that it was sound structurally(meaning that the carpet material could withstand being put through the gauntlet), I decided that I would not just clean it in place, I washed it like it were a wool rug on a wash floor. Since the pad and subfloor had to be taken out anyway, this is the method I chose. Here is what the process basically looked like....
Started out by treating the backing of the carpet. Here you can see the the numerous pet urine deposits that are not visible on the front. We treated the backing first.
Here is a shot of one of my guys completely saturating the face of the carpet with a garden hose. With the carpet wet first, its more effective to get a full use out of the chemicals we were about to apply.
After saturating the carpet, we treated it with a cocktail of urine neutralizing/oxidizing/deodorizing chemicals, then gave it a real good scrub with a CRB machine.
This is a close-up shot of the CRB(counter-rotating-brush) machine that we use for restoring carpet when we do pet damage jobs. It is an amazing machine.
After one pass the chemical cocktail is starting to work. I think that we scrubbed this piece for about an hour.
Here's me running over the carpet with the ROTOVAC 360 doing the final steam extraction rinse before drying it.
Look familiar? This how it looked before we re-installed it. It smelled fresh and looked shiny and new again.
This was just the pics of the Living room carpet. We performed the same process on the master bedroom carpet. The rest of the house did not require new pad so we cleaned it in place like normal, but used the same chemical cocktail mentioned earlier. Removing pet stains and odors from carpets is not a job for any old carpet cleaning company. We are called Restore Your Carpet for a reason. As long as there is sound material there to clean and it can make it through the gauntlet that we will put it through, we can Restore Your Carpet.
If you or anyone else you know is in need of our services regarding pet damage stains and odors, give us a call.
RYC, out.
Carpet cleaning/restoration services in Jackson Hole, WY
307.774.0223
Carpet cleaning/restoration services in Star Valley, WY
307.887.0223
If you or anyone else you know is in need of our services regarding pet damage stains and odors, give us a call.
RYC, out.
Carpet cleaning/restoration services in Jackson Hole, WY
307.774.0223
Carpet cleaning/restoration services in Star Valley, WY
307.887.0223
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