If you have a pet cat with you, the chances of getting your expensive carpets being peed with are very high. Maybe you have already tried all the different homemade products that you could think of and also tried other carpet deodorizers you could find in the market. But still, after a few days or even hours, the cat urine odor in your carpet is back again. To help you with your urine odor on carpet problem, here's an easy to follow step by step procedure on how to eliminate and prevent those stinky urine odors from returning.

The ultimate reason why some carpet deodorizers don't effectively eliminate the cat urine odor is because they are created to just cover up the odor instead of totally removing it. When applied, carpets may seem to be smelling good at first, but will eventually return to its original foul smell. If only treated immediately, cat urine odor on carpets can easily be removed since it doesn't have enough time to multiply the bacteria within the carpet, causing it to smell really bad and makes it very hard to remove.

If the carpet has been urinated for a couple of hours, you have to first identify the exact spot where the cat went into the carpet. If you can't identify the exact location of the urine, you can use a black light to locate the spot. When you find the area, you can now apply an enzyme-based product to the specific area in your carpet. Enzyme-based products are very effective in treating cat urine since it breaks down and eats up the bacteria which cause the stinky odor of the urine. You must let it sit for 24 hours or even more, depending on the severity of the contaminated area. After that, you may now proceed on flushing out the contaminated area using a steam cleaner. Then you may opt to use a carpet deodorizer to add a fresh scent to your newly cleaned carpet.

However, if the procedure doesn't solve your problems and the foul odor still persists, the source of the problem may come from deep into the carpet which can either be the padding of the carpet or the floor itself. If the problem is the carpet padding, you can easily replace the padding for a minimum cost. You can buy a small piece of carpet padding to replace your contaminated padding. However, if the cat urine has penetrated deep down into the floor, you must remove the carpet to thoroughly clean and seal the floor.

If you've already deal with the source of the problem, then you shouldn't have any more cat urine odor problems in your carpet. Just make sure that when you do the cleaning, there's no urine smell left because cats has the tendency to return to the area if they can still smell that urine odor of them.