There have been times when I walked into a house and it was as if I walked into a giant urinary tract. Of course, it would be best to simply discard the carpet and pad, clean the subfloor etc. but some customers don't want that for varying reasons. I have found that a dab of bleach in your extraction water works better than anything. Of course I would also recommend water claw flushes and make sure you charge a significant amount extra for it. I would stay away from the $75 a gallon chemicals because they are too expensive and don't even work as well as a $3 gallon of bleach. You just have to be very conservative with how much bleach you use so you don't damage the carpet.

 

H202, needs to be handled with caution, although it's many benifits from adding to drinking water to harsh cleaning tasks, it would not be cost effective in your application.

 

                                                          Nightrider

 

Mixing diluted ammonia or urea with diluted chlorine is not dangerous and in fact is what goes on in swimming pools and spas. The reactions are as follows:

2NH₃ + 3HOCl --> N₂(g) + 3H⁺ + 3Cl^- + 3H₂O
Ammonia + Hypochlorous Acid --> Nitrogen Gas + Hydrogen Ion + Chloride Ion + Water

(NH₂)₂CO + 2HOCl + 1/2 O₂ --> N₂(g) + CO₂(g) + 2H⁺ + 2Cl^- + 2H₂O
Urea + Hypochlorous Acid + Dissolved Oxygen --> Nitrogen Gas + Carbon Dioxide Gas + Hydrogen Ion + Chloride Ion + Water

If you were to use concentrated solutions, especially of chlorine, then you can form higher order chloramines including nitrogen trichloride which smells really bad and is irritating and in sufficient concentrations, dangerous. We are not talking about high concentrations, so therefore you are way off the mark.

 

Grimel, if you make another inaccurate post like the one above, I will stuff you right back where you came from, the dreaded Recoil Scrub Pit.

a gallon of chlorine bleach at his trashed out apts.

 

I add to prespray 8oz/gal. diluted your safe.

Thats the only place it is used. Trashed out and empty.

Dont really like the smell even though all the windows are open!

 

I only use products that the customer can't get themselves.

 

Kenny, funny thing you should mention vinegar, I used a gallon just last night to neutralize a floor stripper just before the sealer.....wow what a smell.....like a french fry festival.....know what the owner of the place said....." That's fantastic didn't know vinegar was good for that, then asked me if it was good to put in the sink drains..........guess what..... just make a customer for a long time.....he was paying $ 37.00 / Gallon for some other drain deodorizer, compair that to $ 2.19 Gallon for vinegar.

 

                                                          Nightrider

 

If anyone can find a way to make lemonade out of lemons it would be you Jack.

 

                                                          Nightrider

Pet OSR.. Has enzymes works better and safer than bleach. 4oz of bleach boosted in your prespray might brighten the tips of a nasty but then your lungs are going to thank you later in life... Soak the area let the zymes do their thing then water claw it. After that inject zymes in the pad then spay a mist before you leave. Expensive service but it will cure the UTI...(urinary track infection)..LOL!

 

 

Good info. But I think it should be mentioned!!!! Never use bleach on carpet in machines or anywhere near carpets.  It ruins your clothes, your nose and sometimes if you are working with someone who isn't as trained as you may make a costly mistake.  My two cents.  Hope I've helped anyway.

and neutralized. Hot water won't do it..      

 

It will reactivate when humidity is up and a person that is sweating

like a  on the carpet.