Interesting from the Scoe 10x site.

I've used this product before on cat urine and it was the only thing I found to work ,....at least in the carpet that I used it on..

But here is their comments on trying to seal odors with painting the area.

WHY SEALING OR PAINTING WILL NOT STOP ODOR

Sealing or painting a surface to stop odor may seem like a good idea with one coating company in particular promoting the idea. However, the idea is really bad and will not work. Once the science of odor is understood, sealing or painting a surface to stop odor is just physically impossible.

This has to do with the size of the molecule your nose detects as odor and how paints and sealers dry.

The odor molecule is a gas molecule produced by the odor causing bacteria eating urine residue deposits. It's size is in the 2-5 micron size range. A very small particle.

However, when a coating such as a sealer or paint is applied, the solvent in the coating (water or oil based) needs to evaporate for the coating to dry. The evaporation process leaves very small holes in the coating usually in the 25-45 micron size range. This also is a very small hole (cannot be seen by the naked eye), but compared to the 2-5 size micron odor molecule, it is indeed, very large.

I am thinking, if you have painted over, maybe extra coat of polyurethane or equivalent to cover the mistake.

A LL friend of mine painted over stairs and floors where 3 dead dogs were. The odd lingered.. not sure if it is gone or not after 1 year.

I used polyurethane over a cat urine spot on a hardwood floor and it killed the odor. I guess the microscopic holes in the urethane didn't land in the same place as the molecules of bacteria that were emitting gas.

To kill the smell in a room full of cat pee that leaked down between floor boards, I cleaned thoroughly then I nailed down luan, then tiled over the luan and then had the carpet padding and carpet installed.

That worked perfectly.

I highly recommend Odor-Xit.

I bought a bank-owned 3 family that had been left open and was the home/porta-potti to several stray cats. A "helpful" neighbor was even feeding them.

When I first viewed the property the realtor wouldn't even go in. The cat piss smell made your eyes water and your wanted to wretch.

I got that property for a song because other investors didn't even want to go thru the front door.

When I bought it, I donned a respirator and ripped out all carpets. Then I mixed Odor-Xit in a 2 gallon garden sprayer and saturated all floors and walls up to 2 feet.

This first application solved 90% of the problem. The second application was 100% successful.

That was 6 years ago. No cat odor has ever been detected by any tenant.

I make it a habit to paint over bare subflooring, with whatever leftover paint I have.

I just got several free cans of traffic yellow and safety red oil based paint. That paint is going on the subfloor of our current project.

It doesn't have bad odors, but there is more reason than just odor to seal the floors:

It slows air infiltration

Fills in little cracks where bugs enter

slows or stops water damage from the top down

Smooths the top surface

I have successfully sealed out pet/human urine smell in multiple apartments by using oil based floor paint or polyurethane. I have an apartment with beautiful refinished pine floors. When I got the building, the floors were saturated with pitbull/toddler urine through the carpet and we couldn't even remove all of the carpet padding stuck to the floor until we sanded them down. It's now gorgeous, and completely odor-free after three coats of polyurethane. I accomplished the same thing on some stairs in another apartment with one coat of oil-based polyurethane floor paint.

Hi Hollis,

Hi There,

I would really appreciate some urgent advise..

I have just purchased an old house and the floors in my main bedroom has wood borer damage and the floor cannot be refurbished, I will have to replace the entire floor with the original oregan pine wood. A temporary option would be to laminate, which is much cheaper. I really cannot afford to replace with original wood at this stage. I have just fumigated the wooden floors for borer, etc. I have also treated a termite nest, etc in the crawl space, which is near my bedroom. I am getting an old woody odour, which makes me sick as I have allergies in the main bedroom. I am convinced that the smell is coming from the wood borer damaged flooring. Will laying a good quality underlay and laminate block out the odor coming from the original wooden flooring? Is there something else I can lay over the subfloor to seal it before we lay the laminate.

I just want to block out that smell.

I look forward to your response.

Many thanks,

Luan is very absorbant. In time the luan will soak up the odor, bringing it to the surface.

Momma picks the house and jer nose is working overtime when viewing a property.

Sealing takes time, energy, and money yet runs the risk of the odor returning. Humid Indiana summers bring out EVERY odor. Simplest is to eliminate the odor and be done. Usually as basic as clean and spray. Let the chemical do the work.

We've had great success with OdorXit.

BRAD

PS. The rehab can be gorgeous but if Momma picks up the SLIGHTEST hint of odor she leaves.

I have porrus tiles in kitchen tried everything to seal them from dog urine can anyone recommend anything

I have porrus tiles in kitchen tried everything to seal them from dog urine can anyone recommend anything

On a subfloor and lower wall area with unbearable urine odor I applied one coat of Kilz oil-based primer. It worked, better than my initial expectations!

To get rid of the cat pee smell in the bathroom I was pouring a vinegar, Odorxit concentrate and about five more different products from the pet store.