

At 5280 Carpet
Cleaning & Restoration, we love pets as much as anyone. That being
said, we recognize that pets can be extremely rough on carpets. Dogs
might track in mud and urinate on the carpet. Cats tend to scratch
and shed hair all over the place. A talking parrot might even be critical
of the pattern of your carpet. 5280 offers various stain fighting
methods and technologies as discussed elsewhere on this website, but
you might be wondering: What can 5280 do about the odors associated
with my lovable pets?
Removing
pet odor from your carpets is not an easy task, and anyone who
says differently is lying. Unfortunately, the most effective way to
eliminate pet odor is also the most expensive and labor intensive.
A technician would pull up the existing carpet, and replace the padding
underneath. If a pet has been urinating on the floor, this padding
is most likely ruined and needs to be replaced. The technician will
also replace other affected areas such as the tack strips. The affected
carpet and subfloor will then be treated with enzymes to neutralize
odor. A temporary solution is to clean the affected area and saturate
it with enzymes but this does not treat the odor of the padding underneath.
There are contaminants in the padding that cannot be treated and it
needs to be replaced. When it comes to the elimination
of pet odor, 5280 recommends the total replacement of the padding,
but we are happy to provide free estimates for both the temporary
and more permanent carpet treatments described above.

