Vinegar To Remove Urine Stain From Carpet

After blotting the carpet dry or discovering the stain too late for that make a homemade cleaning solution to remove any remaining urine and its odor.

Vinegar to remove urine stain from carpet.

This recipe may also work for removing grease stains from the carpet or from clothing. Soak the carpet and you ve got a soggy carpet for days. Mix 2 cups of lukewarm water with 2 cups of white distilled vinegar. Fold a cotton cloth or towel and press it firmly on the stain to soak up the urine stain and absorb as much of it as possible.

White vinegar gets rid of pet urine just fine all on its own and you do not need to soak the carpet with it. Either spray plain white vinegar onto the stain or mix white vinegar with baking soda to form a paste and apply this to the stain instead. Be sure to blot the urine stain thoroughly to absorb any remaining urine stain. Extract even more stain by vacuuming the soiled area with a shop vac.

The white vinegar in this solution will even get rid of old dog urine stains while the baking soda will eliminate the urine odor from the carpet fibers. Repeat if the odor still lingers. To ease handling you may choose to spray the paper towels with the solution before blotting as long as you continue to spray the carpet too. Continue spraying the carpet with the vinegar solution and blotting carpet until no stain remains.

After 30 minutes vacuum with the carpet with a standard vacuum cleaner. While vinegar might not fix your stain completely it should definitely help get some of the urine out. Use white vinegar to lessen the look of a urine stain. For this test i used white vinegar as my contaminant.

Vinegar neutralizes the smell of urine just as effectively as commercial cleaners and costs much less. To do so mix half water and half white vinegar in a spray bottle. Next soak the carpet fabric thoroughly with white distilled vinegar. The combination of vinegar and baking soda makes a dynamite cleaning solution for all types of stains.