| Your beautiful expensive wool area rug once your | | | | Concentrate first on just urine spots- Using a rented |
| pride and joy now is an embarrassment because of | | | | portable steam cleaner flush and extract repeatedly |
| the urine smell that you cannot get out. Why is it so | | | | the visible urine stains using urine pre-spotter |
| difficult to get urine out of wool rugs and how do | | | | purchased from your local carpet cleaning supply |
| you eliminate that terrible odor? | | | | store or a ½ cup white vinegar to one quart of |
| Here are your answers. | | | | warm water solution. |
| I have been a professional carpet cleaner in | | | | The less sure way but less complicated way |
| Anchorage Alaska for over 30 years. Through | | | | From your local carpet cleaning supply store purchase |
| experience we know that these tips will work. | | | | at least a gallon of enzymes specifically for eliminating |
| Why is it so difficult to get the smell out? | | | | urine odor. Using a watering can saturate the area of |
| Wool is of course a natural fiber and is very different | | | | urine with the enzymes, gently agitate, let sit for a |
| from other synthetic fibers such as nylon or | | | | couple of hours. Flush out the spot with fresh water, |
| polyester. If you were to look at a strand of wool | | | | extract and then repeat the process until no more |
| under a microscope you would see why it holds onto | | | | yellow urine or urine smell comes from the carpet. |
| the smell. The stalk of a strand of wool is covered | | | | Using a cleaning solution obtained from your local |
| with little pockets. These pockets get filled with soil | | | | carpet cleaning supply store gently clean the rest of |
| and in the case of urine issues they get filled with | | | | the carpet. Hang the carpet up where it can dry |
| urine crystals. It is very difficult to get the urine out | | | | quickly. Use air mover fans if possible. If wool carpets |
| of these pockets. Another problem is that what | | | | stay wet too long they will brown. If fringes on |
| looks like a small amount of urine on the surface is | | | | carpet are stained use a 50/50 mixture of water and |
| actually a lot of urine because most of it is hidden in | | | | hydrogen peroxide and clean the fringes. Be careful |
| the pockets. Many people including less experienced | | | | not to get this solution on the colored part of the |
| carpet cleaners do not use enough cleaning solution | | | | rug. |
| because they are treating what they see. | | | | The more certain and more complicated method |
| Also it is pretty easy to turn a medium sized urine | | | | Remove dry soil from carpet, flush out as much of |
| problem in a wool rug into a bigger urine problem if | | | | the urine as possible. Build a small pool with 2x4s and |
| you spread the urine all over the carpet. | | | | plastic sheeting. Fill with warm water. Lay the rug in |
| There are certain steps that need to be taken to | | | | this pool and add the bio enzymes. Gently agitate and |
| remove the urine and the odor. | | | | let sit for eight hours. Remove water/ enzyme |
| The steps | | | | mixture from pool and then flush out the carpet with |
| Remove the dirt first- Because of the pockets, wool | | | | a lot of fresh water. If urine and urine odor are gone, |
| rugs are always much dirtier than they appear. If you | | | | extract as well as possible and then hang to dry |
| clean a wool rug full of dirt, you will make mud. It is | | | | using fans if possible. If you still detect urine or odor |
| much easier to remove the dry soil before you start | | | | repeat the process. |
| the urine treatment. | | | | Good luck. |