The Internet is literally overflowing with tips on how to remove the smell of cat urine. By following these recommendations, cat owners unsuccessfully tinder ruined clothes with vinegar, sprayed with special tools, sprinkle with baking soda. Unfortunately, no such vehicle from the smell don't work in that case in the upholstery of the sofa, rug, or bag soaked in cat urine.
But this does not mean that the situation beznadega. Just have to work hard and to get the smell out in several stages. So, for starters, stock up on necessary ingredients. You will need:
- vinegar 9% table;
- baking soda;
- 3% hydrogen peroxide;
- liquid soap or dishwashing detergent.
When all that is needed to remove the smell, already ready, you can begin. If the stain is fresh, blot the spot where the cat wrote. You can also use a paper towel or pour small zeolite or bentonite as an absorbent for cat litter. When urine is absorbed, vacuum the affected area. Not only sanivite water, otherwise the cat urine will spread over a much larger area.
Now dilute the vinegar with water in a proportion one to three. Pour the resulting liquid treated area and cover with paper, leaving to dry. But take your time, it is too early to hope that the smell of cat urine will disappear. Conducted manipulations destroyed the urine, whereas tioli, it is much more odorous substance is still left in place of the cat crime.
To eliminate it will help the next stage of processing. Liberally sprinkle the baking soda place. You have to be ready with a solution consisting of 100 ml of hydrogen peroxide, ½ teaspoon detergent and 100 ml of water. Pour prepared into a spray bottle and spray liberally over the surface, sprinkle with baking soda. You should see a foam. Then you have to wait 2-3 hours. During this time, the mixture of peroxide and baking soda will produce oxygen, it will connect with the tioli, the oxidation reaction will decompose the substance to carbon dioxide and ammonium. In the end, all will quickly evaporate, the smell of cat urine will not be over.
So, in order to remove the smell of cat urine, it is necessary to conduct complex chemical reactions. Troublesome, but effective.