Thommes wrote:
This question is way off topic, for which I apologize. Someone recommended
KO and a tiny bit of research online came up with Peggy Hall as the
creator. I found that she posts to this forum on a regular basis and I'm
hoping she will be able to respond.
Yup...that would be me.
I have a situation where cats urinated on the top of a built-in
entertainment center in our basement. The cats have urinated on it for
over a year. I have tried numerous products from Nature's Miracle to
vineager to remove the odor from the wood. I have saturated the wood with
each product. Other than making the odor worse for a number of days I
haven't made any progress in removing the odor. Someone recommended KO. Do
you think KO has a chance of getting rid of the odor? I don't know how KO
works, whether its an enzyme or chemical reaction. If you do think KO
would solve my problem, can you recommend an application rate?
It SHOULD work. If it doesn't, it's because urine has leaked into places
that can't be reached just by spraying the outside of the cabinet. K.O.
is live bacteria that "eat" the odor causing bacteria and spores in
organic matter. Use it full strength and saturate every surface with
it...remove the equipment from the inside of the cabinet and saturate it
too. Since it's built in, you can't move it to get behind it or under
it, so make sure you get plenty of it into cracks that cat urine ran
down into. Let it dry...even put fans around it to provide plenty of
fresh air for at least 24 hours. If that doesn't get it, you'll prob'ly
have to take some of the cabinetry apart to get at all the areas cat
urine has gotten into. Once you've found 'em all, the odor will go away
for good.
Fwiw, I have two geriatric cats that have accidents, as did their
predecessors when they got old. I've used K.O. on the sites for years
with complete success. I also used to trade out cases of it with the
company who cleaned my carpets...they also had contracts to clean
apartments between tenants...using K.O. saved the landlords the cost of
recarpeting.
Btw...how was it that your cats could have used your entertainment
center for a year??? Or is this a problem you inherited from the
previous homeowner?
And to put this ON topic...K.O. will also eliminate the musty odor from
foulies, PFDs, boat cushions, etc...saturate 'em, then put 'em in the
sun to dry all day.
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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://69.20.93.241/store/customer/p...40&cat=&page=1