FOR INDIVIDUAL URINE SPOTS ON CARPET:

If fresh, sop up as much cat urine as you can with a paper towel first. Use a spray bottle to saturate the spot completely with the recipe - do not blot. The recipe must penerate the padding and possibly the floor boards underneath, where the urine has penerated for it to work.

Wait 24-48 hours until dry then vacuum. If the urine odor is still present - repeat the procedure. It usually takes 2-3 applications to completely neutralize the cat urine odor.

FOR LARGE AREAS OF CARPET:

As I told you in the introduction, we had the carpets in all 3 bedrooms professionally cleaned. All that did was make it worse. It re-hydrated the uric acid crystals in the urine and spread the urine on the entire carpet! And the cleaner/deodorizer that was used just masked the smell temporarily.

Learn from my experience!

You can use a carpet cleaning machine - one of your own or a rental and use the recipe instead of the shampoo. You will have to make several gallons of the recipe depending on the size of the carpet. Don't use the vacuum part of the machine - you will want to let the solution soak and dry for 24-48 hours before vacuuming.

Please bear in mind that most carpet cleaning machines are not made for this use and baking soda can clog the nozzles of the machine - so use it at your own risk.

Instead, I used a 1 gallon garden bug sprayer I bought at Home Dept for about $20.00. It worked great and if you ruin it, its not such a big expense to replace it. I had to rinse the nozzle out frequently by filling the tank with hot water and spraying it in my bathtub until the nozzle was clear but it worked!

If using the sprayer saturate the entire carpet with the recipe, let dry for about 24-48 hours and vacuum. You will have to probably repeat the procedure again. One of my bedrooms only needed 2 applications but the other 2 that where heavily saturated with old urine took 3 applications over a week.

Also, if the cat urine is old and dried, the smell will probably be worse a day or two later. This is because you are rehydrating the uric acid crystals in the urine to neutralize them. The smell will get better with each application!