Foreclosure Pets
What takes stinky animal scents out?!?!?
My Husband and I are possibly buying a house that was a foreclosure. The outside is all brand new, but the inside is a different story. The people who lived there before left the house DISGUSTING! They had pets and almost every inch of the floors are covered in stains and animal poo! The smell is horrid! Does anyone know what to use on the sub floors after we remove the flooring to get the smell out??? PLEASE HELP!!!
This EXACT thing happened to us several years ago and yes it is totally possible and realistic to take the smell out!
We purchased a HUD repo home as our first home out of college 15 years ago. The prior homeowners, according the neighbors, (and confirmed by the stench) had 11 cats and 3 huge dogs. The animals were kept locked inside and defecated everywhere and especially on the walls and in some favorite corners for over 6 years.
After trying about 10 different products, including Muratic Acid I felt like giving up. Nothing had even attempted to cut the odors. Then, someone told me to try “Nature’s Miracle” which is a pet odor remover (specifically for feces and urine)that contains live enzymes that both neutrilize and eat away at fecal debri and even human waste, vomit etc…
It worked. We had to remove baseboards to be able to saturate the drywall and literally mopped the floors and sub-flooring with the stuff. But after two rounds, the odor was gone. I sealed the flooring with a sealer (Thompson’s on the cement and Kilz odor and stain sealer on the wood subflooring) and we never, ever, ever smelled any odors again. We had new carpet and padding laid and our dogs never marked anything. That was evidence to me that the smells were gone even at the level of a dog who has great olafactory skills!
Nowadays, you can find many different brands of the enzyme neutralizers in Petsmart, Petco etc. The only ones I recommend for your type of job are Nature’s Miracle and Simple Solution, as the others I have felt are watered down. My favorite for important jobs such as yours is the more expensive one, Nature’s Miracle because it will remedy any problem in about one less cleaning than Simple Solution.
I’m so sorry you are going through this, but in the end I can say from experience, it can really be worth it since you are the one that reaps the financial equity once the home is cleaned up. Also, don’t be afraid to offer a little lower on this home than what you are thinking of offering, because most buyers are not as industrious and resourceful as you and will just walk away. You probably don’t and won’t have a lot of competition. The house we bought had been listed for 14 monthes and rejected time after time by others due to the odors. (It was worse than any kennel or pound I have ever smelled).
Best of luck and congradulations on seeing the value beyond the cosmetic fix ups!
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