Smells in subfloor

[cidley69]

People with mobility challenges had dogs with incontinuety issues.....

Flooring has been removed.

Anyone know of products aimed at getting urine smells out of subfloors?

I've heard: bleach, hydrogen peroxide, Kilz.

Someone mentioned an enzyme based product, you spray it on then cover floor with poly to stop it from evaporating, and chemical reaction destroys the uric acid, or some similar process. They can't recall the product name, and I have no luck finding it on the Google machine.

Any suggestions?

[littledan]

Just replace the subfloor?

[Buster]

sounds like someone had a good art room.

[2Legit2Quit]

I use this in my dog run, does what it's supposed to

ez-clean Advanced Odor Remover- Highly Concentrated Bio Enzyme - Pet Odor Eliminator for Dog, Cat, and Small Animal Urine - Indoor & Outdoor Use for Any Organic Spills (4L jug) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07BMHLX82/...ing=UTF8&psc=1

I've also used Nature's Miracle for indoor long ago and recall it worked/helped. Had to really pour it on and let it soak. Perfume smell is kinda annoying but after everything dried it didn't smell like dog pee

[ExtraSlow]

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Just replace the subfloor?

This sounds like by far the easiest and most certain method.

[tirebob]

Went through the same thing once... Soaked everything in massively copious quantities of white vinegar and let it air dry. Seemed to do the trick. Stunk like vinegar for a while but once it faded all was good.

[JRSC00LUDE]

Gross, replace the subfloor is my vote too.

[suntan]

Are you all students? Buy a new house.

[Buster]

it took me a while to figure out if the dogs or the people with mobility issues had incontinence or if the dogs had mobility issues and incontinence.

[JRSC00LUDE]

I was trying to determine if they were meaning to say the dogs were incontinent or discontinuous.

[killramos]

Fire should do the trick

[BokCh0y]

I had same issue in a rental I bought previously; the easiest for us was to just replace the subfloor.

Not sure what you are doing with the unit after, but what we did with our rental was we painted the new subfloor with standard paint to ensure that we wouldn't have that issue again with smells, urine, etc., as the unit, we were fine with pets. That way if the pet(s) pee'd on the carpet, it at least wouldn't soak into the new subfloor.

[Buster]

"buy a rental, it's free money"

[mr2mike]

What's the subfloor? Plywood or shiplap? Might try the spray.
Osb or worse... Replace.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I have this. I attempted to clean the carpet 4x before I realized time/value and pulled the carpet out shortly after moving in. I think a 120 LB pitbull went to sleep in its pile of puke for ___ days in our closet before we low-balled the piss out of them and got the place.
I was thinking that a belt sander followed by either a healthy dose of bleach or that stuff called Nil-Odour would work, followed by paint and then fresh underlay and carpet. But it's the type of thing you want to get right, without any doubt before you pull the trigger.

Inconsiderate dog owners, amirite?!?

[legendboy]

I rolled our subfloor with kills to kill a curry smell, animal smells i'd replace the osb floor

[Rocket1k78]

http://smellzapper.com/ try the bio enzyme one. Let it fully dry and sit for a good week to see if the smells still there, if it is then sub floor replacement might be the best

[cidley69]

Any downside or reason that a basement concrete floor should not be painted with a sealer like Kilz?

I was wondering if concrete is supposed to be able to breath for any reason?

[schurchill39]

Paint away. All of my basements have had the concrete painted right from the builder.