boy bought a 93 jeep Cherokee for 500 bucks, top rusty , gonna bondo or torchdown the top , everything else perfect except.
lady had 3 dawgs and they pooped in the back plus theres hair everywhere. put carpet cleaner on , bleach, cleaners, now im thinking just rip it out unless theres any good advice here. i cant vacuum up the hair either
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Rip it out and put n a rubber mat.
Rhino Lining or LineX is another option to rubber mats
Well if you can rip out the carpet, why don't you toss it in the washing machine?
On the other hand, if you have a powerful wet/dry vacuum cleaner, you can just soak the stained area and suck the water/gunk out. Do it several times. Must be a powerful vacuum [~100" lift] and use the crevice tool.
Blue wrench will take care of the puppy hairs.
~Peter, the former fastidious janitor
I like rubber.
I knew there was something kinky about you.
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There are cleaning products with enzymes in them that are designed for cleaning up pet "accidents". I bought one for a carpet issue we had but ended up tearing up multiple layers down to the subfloor, ugh. Never did find out how well the enzyme cleaner would work.
Rubber would be ideal for a work truck but if you wanna clean the carpet, it can be done.
I pulled the seats and had my carpet cleaning guy just run his stair machine in my car.
We did not have dog stuff in there but he specialized in pet stains and used the pet chemicals on the car anyway since they were in the machine from walking out of the house.
Next, I put in a dehumidifier, closed up all the doors and windows, and sucked the excess water out overnite. The dehumidifier was half full in the morning and had shut off cause there was no more moisture in the car. The inside was crisp it was so dry. That dehumidifier was one of my better ideas.
You could use chemicals scrub brush, hose and shop vac and then dehumidify as well. Cheaper but more work.
If it's the smell you're worried about, use apple cider vinegar, full strength.
Get the carpet sopping wet with it, through and through.
Next day, suck that out with a shopvac. Then shampoo the carpet as normal...
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Go to the salvage yard and get another carpet.
Personally I wouldn't worry bout he poop stain too much unless you're planning on having another dog live in the car. Just clean her up and tell your son to date attractive chicks.
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bobbys
The best vaccum for pet hair is that Dyson! It really does work head and shoulders above everything else!
As for dog Poo. Once it's up flood the carpet with a lot of water. I mean just put the garden hose in there and let it run for an hour.. Hose off the whole interior! Then use a shop vac to get the water back up and repeat! Let it dry with the windows open and stink etc. gone..
Works during the summer not during the winter<grin>.
From a 150# Newfundland owner with experiance!
Got the answer from this months JLC.
Article about broken flourescent bulbs, sez "CUT THE CARPET OUT"
Now, when I read that I though "this ain't gonna fly" but it's the official word from the Maine department of something or other.
So, if it'll get rid of mercury it oughta solve the poo problem too?
Joe H
thank you all i drove it and got a headache but the smell from the carpet cleaner was still strong. im gonna air it out and see but pretty sure im just going to cut the back carpet out.
Its a beach rig so i think i will torch down the back floor.. Note i live right near the ocean and we can drive on the beach but it destroys your rig plus you may lose it if you get stuck. when we lifted the back seat we found poo poo that had fell inbetween thus the really bad smell. i think people dont smell there own dawgs after awhile
Luka is the one who was right . Vinegar soak and then shampoo. Those lint rollers remove the hair after a beater brush on a vacumn. Straight vacumn wont work . Let it sit opened up .
I cleaned a car up that someone died in . You dont have a problem.
Tim
he said apple cider vinegar or just plain vinegar????. i found a man that hung himself and boy did i gag, he had been there for awhile
Apple cider vinegar. Others work, but apple cider vinegar is the best.It will get rid of the odor.Leaves a strong odor itself, but that odor eventually goes away. As opposed to the other odor that would have come back to haunt you, otherwise, whenever the carpet got wet, or whatever...~~~If you have cloth that is pee soiled, and the smell stays, like cat pee... Put it in the washer on hot, wash as normal, but add a couple cups of lemon scent ammonia. (Pee in the carpet, gets the apple cider vinegar treatment.)(I can't believe the word u r i n e, is censored !)No one ever believes that, until I buy the ammonia myself, and wash their blanket or cat bed, or whatever. Then they're amazed. Thought they'd have to throw it away.Sometimes when you take it out of the washer, you can still smell it a tiny bit. But that goes away.I've got some clothes and sheets waiting right now, for that treatment. Eek has been more expedient than fussy about where she 'goes', while she is healing. Can't say as I blame her.
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"he had been there for awhile"Maybe an indication of part of the reason he did it ?
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Well its used becasue of its acitity in cleaning purposes. Its a light form of an acid cleaner that will clean u r i n e as was said . I use it all the time in rental carpets. Its the top reccomended chemical for pet #### . I dont actualy know the difference between apple or white vinegar but Ive used both. It both works on stains but I dont pay much attention to smell. Amonia is another agent that can be used if its greasy. Sometimes you have to actually clean that type of stain before you ever get to the u r i n e . Its not as effective in #### . P o o p is not a big deal. I comes up as easily as dirt but usually its soaked to soften it up to break it up. There again a beater brush does the job in most cases. Commerical applications use a spinning brush that actually does massage carpet in its cleaning . I dont have that so I use a rolling brush tied to the vacumn thats powered off the vacumn force. I put it on a powerful shop vac and it hums pretty good providing the vacumn filter is clean.
When ever you encounter a problem like this look it up on the internet and you will find a world of solutions out there. Some want to be paid for it but their are forums like this out there on cleaning . A lot of the so called wonder chemicals are out of the base of household chemicals .
Being a landlord I bought a volume set of cleaning books but its on the internet too.
Tim
Edited 7/23/2008 2:20 pm by Mooney
thanks tim and luka i have some apple cider vinegar and yam gonna try it right now .
gonna mix it with a little rum too and taste it first to see if its still good.
stole my wifes lint roller made one pass and filled it with dog hair
Tim, it looks like you and I had very similar thought lines after this.You posted for landlords and flippers in construction techniques, and I just added to a thread by blue eyed devil in the tavern...
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Which one , names dont come up on my screen like they used to when I move a cursor over the title . What am I not doing ?
You mean Jim's discussion ?It is "ways to help those in foreclosure"http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=106946.24=0)
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I faced the same problem with my Bronco.
I took out the seats, interior panels, and the carpet.
Then I rolled in a gallon of the put it in your self bedliner. I got mine from JCWhitney, but just about all the parts places can get it now. There are also quite a few sources online. The kits run from about $125 to $200.
I waited two days, before I bolted the seats back in. If I were doing it again, I would build some kind of quick detach system for the seats, so I could take them out and hose down the interior when it gets dirty.