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Pet Urine Inspection

Pet urine can cause serious damage to property. Depending on severity, which may not be obvious to a homeowner or buyer, property damage from pet urine can range from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. Pet urine and its residue can also affect the air quality and health of those living in a home. A pet urine inspection can reveal areas that will need strategic cleaning, encapsulation, carpet replacement and even structural repairs.

Who Would Benefit From a Urine Inspection?

Pet Owners
Despite the fact that many pet owners do not to believe that “their” pet would urinate indoors, it happens everyday. Many people who live in a home with pets can no longer smell the odors being created. They become accustomed to the smells and therefore do not identify a problem. If you have pets, a urine inspection can be a valuable eye opener.
Home Buyers
If you are considering purchasing a home that has had pets in it, you should have the property professionally inspected to help determine if there is a urine problem, and to determine the locations and severity of urine problems. This is especially true if you can smell even mild pet odors, or if you notice any types of scented candles or fragrance dispensers in the property that a seller may be using to deceive your sense of smell. Some homes have had extreme damages costing up to $75,000.00 to remediate. This can happen when the urine has saturated into wallboard and framing materials, behind baseboards, through hardwood flooring, in carpet and padding, into sub-flooring, inside of air ducts, and into concrete walls and floors.
Home Sellers
You only get one chance to make a first impression with a potential buyer. Because of the high incidences of asthma, allergies and other indoor air related health problems, many buyers will not consider a home that has pet odors. Attempting to mask urine odors by painting over the urine, or by placing scented products around the home is considered deception and can expose you to liability for damages after you have sold your home. You may also be forced to purchase your home back, plus pay damages. The courts are sympathetic to consumers and recognize that covering up pet urine problems is no different than covering up any other type of home defect. With many homes available, a urine inspection to help eliminate the odors and/or damage is the best way to help a home sell faster and for a better price.
Landlords
If you own income property, a pet urine inspection could prove to be a valuable investment. Technically written inspection reports can also be provided to document urine damage to help you legally retain security deposits or prevail in a lawsuit to win damages from a tenant.

Why you can’t just cover the odor …

Won’t the smell just go away on its own? NO, Even if it doesn’t smell bad today, the smell can return again tomorrow, next month, or next year.

In order for you to better realize why you cannot just cover up pet odor, you must first understand the molecular structure of what is causing the odor.

Fresh urine usually has little odor. The offensive urine odor doesn’t actually begin, until it starts to decay and release ammonia gas. A second level of decay will follow, which releases, mercaptam ( a foul-smelling organic compound) which comes from the same family of odor as skunk spray.

Natural bacteria attack the urine as it breaks down, and digests the urea, sodium chloride, lipids, and phosphorus-and potassium-containing urine. The bacteria leaves behind phosphate salts, which will stick to the carpet, making it extremely difficult to clean up. These salts are what release the odor, they need heat and humidity to do this. Some animals tend to urinate in the same area, as a result, the animal is applying heat and humidity to the area in question. The odor will become increasingly more pungent each time this occurs.

A routine professional carpet cleaning will not remove these phosphate salts from your carpet. Special enzyme cleaners are required to do this, so be sure to inform EcoClean Carpet Care of the nature of the problem while scheduling the appointment by phone.

We remove pet odor and urine stains from carpet when other products and services fail. We use the most advanced equipment and chemicals on the market to give us the edge on complete odor elimination. We also go a step further and can make repairs to carpet that have permanent damage caused by pets. We do pet urine carpet inspections to detect invisible urine stains prior to treatment or new home purchase. We also seal concrete/wood flooring before new carpet installation.

How Can We Help

Pet odors can be a real problem. Most carpet cleaners do not know how to effectively remove pet odors. The first step in removing urine from your carpet is a urine inspection. We determine the extent of the urine damage through inspection, then we can choose the best treatment for your urine problem.

Urine Inspection Fees

All on-site inspections and/or phone consultations are performed for $150.00 per hour with a one hour minimum, followed by half hour increments.

Expert witness consultations with clients or their attorneys, and testimony provided at depositions, court, arbitration or mediation hearings, including travel time, are performed for $300.00 per hour plus reasonable mileage. If a lawsuit is not yet in process, the initial inspection and report are performed for $150.00 per hour with a one hour minimum, followed by half hour increments.

Urine Decontamination Treatment

Our professional urine decontamination service separates EcoClean from the untrained carpet cleaners. Urine must be properly treated to be successfully removed along with its odors.

Carpet cleaners that advertise”decontaminate at $10 per room” and just spray something that smells good after a cleaning will not remove the urine contamination, and the urine odor will come back again and again. Decontaminate means “remove contamination”. Urine odor can only be removed by neutralizing and removing the urine contamination (source).

Do you have children that play on the carpet? Then you need a professional urine decontamination service!