How To Remove Urine Stains From Your Carpet

Having a dog or cat at home means you are constantly dealing with urine stains on your carpet.
How do you deal with both old and new urine stains? It is quite easy if you have some ready to use home remedies stocked at home always.
Fresh stains are the easiest to deal with if you get on the job quickly! You will need a whole bunch of old clean thick towels, a small bucket of fresh clean water, a bottle of vinegar, a spray bottle or sponge, and something you can use as a heavy weight - big books or wooden boards work fine.
Fold a towel and place it over the stain; make sure it covers the entire stain, and put the weight on it.
Allow the towel to soak up the urine for about ten minutes.
Then remove the towel and spray clean water from the edge of the stain inwards until it's fully soaked.
It will take about a minute to soak completely.
Then place another towel again folded to fit over the stained area and replace the weight.
After waiting half an hour, remove the towel.
Mix vinegar and water in a 1:1 ratio and soak the stained portion again with this mixture.
This again will take about a minute or so to soak in fully.
Then place another clean folded towel on the area and once again place the weight on it.
This should be allowed to stay without being disturbed for at least 12 hours.
So, if you are doing this in the evening, wait until the next morning before you deal with it again.
This process can be carried out with peroxide (mixed with 4% water) or with concentrated dish washing soap.
They will also remove stains effectively and quickly.
After twelve hours have passed, remove the towel and blow dry the carpet or let it air-dry.
Both the stain and the odour will disappear.
If it is a small section of the carpet that can be removed easily, it would be great to hang it out in the sun to get a clean fresh smell.
Removing the odour completely is an absolute must as otherwise your pet will be inclined to urinate on the same area again.
If you are dealing with an old urine stain, you will have to resort to harsher cleaning methods.
You can buy any of the commercially available carpet cleaning products marked specially for stain removal.
But always test the product on a small unseen area of your carpet first to ensure that it doesn't harm your carpet or leave any stain of its own.
If the stain and odour persist, you have no other option but to call in professional carpet cleaners who will be able to better assess the stain and deal with it appropriately and efficiently without damaging your carpet.