Any tricks for cat smell and or smoker smell??

[JHW]

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions home I am moving to with a little bit of cat urine and/or smoker smell from prior owners.

Any tips or tricks on how to deal with that?

I am cleaning the carpet floors etc., but I didn't know if there might be something I am missing.


Thank you all in advance

 

[whiskerz]

Carpet has the potential to be in the pad and subflooring even if the cat pissed a lot in the same spot

 

[handloader]

Rip up the carpet and padding, especially if you see cat pee spots. Paint the walls and ceiling. I remodeled a 50s house for myself occupied for decades by a smoker several years ago. It is the only way. As a bonus, you may get lucky like me and find beautiful hardwood floors.

 

[BamaFan]

Buy an Ozone machine and run it when you're (and your pets) not in the house.

 

[JHW]

Buy an Ozone machine and run it when you're (and your pets) not in the house.

I read an article on those do they actually work?

 

[H2O MAN]

Put an ozone generator in rooms that you can seal off for several hours without pets or people inside, then spay ozium. You should also change the HVAC air filter, use the carbon impregnated air filter if available.

 

[BamaFan]

I read an article on those do they actually w

Yeah. You may be able to rent a large one, not sure. I ran a small one in a basement before and eliminated some funky odors.

 

[JHW]

Put an ozone generator in rooms that you can seal off for several hours without pets or people inside, then spay ozium. You should also change the HVAC air filter, use the carbon impregnated air filter if available.

Never heard of ozium will have to give that a try.

 

[JHW]

Yeah. You may be able to rent a large one, not sure. I ran a small one in a basement before and eliminated some funky odors.

Was on the fence on one of those will give it a try

 

[kuduman]

Easy, easy, easy. I used to get 10-20% discounts on houses with those smells.

Rip out the carpet, and spray the floorboards liberally with Odoban, or any other enzyme cleaner. You'll need to get it wet. Soak the obvious stain spots. Let it dry, problem gone. If you can't replace the carpet and pad, you'll have to just wash the heck out of them with Odoban, and hope for the best. $40 of Odoban and a couple of hours would get a $20K discount on a house.

Ozone will work too for the smoke smell, but ruins things in the house. Tread carefully, and understand that it probably won't get all the cat smell out of the floorboards (but Odoban will). If your ozone emitter says it's safe for you to remain in the house, then that's because it will not work. Look elsewhere; real ozone emitters are dangerous.

Ozone will get smoke smell off the WALLS though-- and obviously cleaning the floor can't address that. Either paint all the walls with Killz, and re-paint, or ozone. That's what fire restoration companies do.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/OdoBan-...-and-Mildew-Control-Multi-Purpose-Concentrate

Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Amazon-- used to only be available from janitorial supply places. Now available in multiple scents.

It works.