Stained Subfloor Under Carpet

Photo of a water damaged subfloor by moresheth flickr when you spill some liquid on a carpeted floor your primary concern is naturally the carpet.

Stained subfloor under carpet. You want to clean and disinfect before you lay new carpet down. I want to rip up our nasty carpet we have 2 large dogs and a red clay dirt yard and stain the subfloor. In some cases it is impossible to get urine odors out of wood. How to pull up carpet and paint the plywood floor.

After you allow the floor to dry out seal it with a subfloor sealer. How to treat a plywood subfloor for urine before new carpet is installed. A time eventually comes when another cleaning won t salvage the carpet and you have to take it up. Pull up the carpet and pad and search the subfloor for urine stains.

Step 2 apply an enzymatic pet cleaner like nature s miracle to the soiled areas and allow them to dry thoroughly for 24 to 48 hours. After removing carpet to sub floor should i treat the subfloor wood. The urine can stain carpet and soak down to the wood subflooring. The best floor sealer for pet urine is a stain blocking primer.

You can still get a new look for the floor when you rip up the carpet and paint the plywood sub floor. But have you thought about where that liquid goes after it soaks through the carpet and pad. So to be safe cut out and replace the stained sections. My husband is worried about the lack of insulation without the old dingy gross orange carpet affecting our heating and cooling bills.

Lingering odors and stains permeate the room and are impossible to hide. The first step is to treat the subfloor with an enzymatic odor remover. That leaves you with a bare subfloor and a. If urine stains have set into the plywood subfloor you can treat it in the same way you would treat any subfloor.

I wouldn t use bleach i d try a wood cleaner that s stronger than murphy s oil soap. You may be able to remove dog or cat urine that has soaked into the wood but some situations may require replacement of the subfloor. Note that some wood reacts and swells on contact with any liquid an issue that might already exist as a result of urine. If it s hardwood then you can look into oxalic acid to bleach stains.

If you want new flooring but can t afford it don t fret. Eventually we will get hardwood but that s not an option right now. It is a very budget friendly update that will give the room a whole new look for the cost of a few gallons of primer and paint. On oct 4 2017.